Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Greg Sestero | ... | Young Toulon | |
Brigitta Dau | ... | Ilsa | |
Stephen Blackehart | ... | First Servant | |
Jack Donner | ... | Afzel | |
Guy Rolfe | ... | Elder Toulon | |
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Robert Radoveanu | ... | Second Servant |
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Vitalie Bantas | ... | Third Servant |
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Sando Teodor | ... | Latour (as Sandu Teodor) |
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George Calin | ... | Valentin |
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Giuliano Doman | ... | Vigo (as Juliano Doman) |
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Vlad Dulea | ... | Duval |
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Dan Fintescu | ... | Beggar |
Serban Celea | ... | Father | |
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Elvira Deatcu | ... | Margarette |
Claudiu Trandafir | ... | Leader |
It's 1892 and Sutekh is hopping mad. It seems a 3,000 year old Egyptian sorcerer has stolen one of the God's secrets of life - that of instilling the souls of the dying into inanimate things. Sutekh raises three mummified former high priests, led by the villainous "First Servant", and charges them with recovering both the Sorceror and his secret. There is no lack of victims for the 3 high-faluting, stylish villains as they pursue their prey to 19th century Paris, and the very young puppeteer, Andre Toulon. Toulon runs a puppet theatre in the heart of Paris, and meets the sorcerer (the mysterious Afzel) when he is found by the lovely Swiss Ambassador's daughter Ilsa, after being nearly killed. It is there and then that we find the seed of things to come, and the origin of the Puppetmaster series of tales. Written by Fred Bloggs
I have seen only of one of the other Puppetmaster movies and remember that it was about an older man with his killing puppets. So I had no knowledge of the beginning of the old man but this Retro film gave me a feel for the man named Andre Toulon played by Greg Sestero. It was not a movie filled with overwhelming killing like the other film I saw but gave the characters a heart. Toulon was a young man that cared for the downtrodden. A man that was falling in love with a woman named Ilsa who likewise cared for people in need when she helps to save an old man attacked. This old man was Afzel, a sorcerer that stole the secret of life. Afzel is being hunted by servants of Sutekh because of this secret. These servants kill all of the friends and fellow puppeteers of Andre but they live again in the puppets of their own creations. Now it is a battle to the death between the servants of Sutekh and Andre and friends when Ilsa is taken hostage. The ending leaves you wondering why these friends would become so evil later in chronological time?