Puppet Killer

Watching the premiere of this film was a pleasure. Arguably biased, as there were excellent references to all of my favorite 70-80s horror films. So if you're a fan of this genre and time period, practical effects, independent features, and you enjoy laughing - you'll love it.

Horror fans will love the nods to various horror sub genres and movies. Yes, it's silly but entertaining none the less. One of the best horror cameos awaits you.

The trope of casting adults as highschoolers is taken to a hilarious extreme in Puppet Killer, and the graphic violence does NOT pull punches. Its fun, and absurd. And yet in that slurry of absurdity and violence, it still feels odd that a regular-aged baby and then regular-aged child grows into a 50-year old higschooler. I almost wanted to see star Paunovic in a diaper in order to make the earliest introduction of his character track with the madness to come. But overall, it's a great time, and I'm delighted to have seen it.

Well, it's a stupid little slasher flick. Pretty much on par with what one would expect. Not terrible.. but nothing you should rush to see either. It not funny in the laughter type of way.. it's MAY be funny in the "heh" type of way.. MAY cause a grin once in a while but that's it.

The cast are all supposed to be high school students...

But are all CLEARLY over 35, if not much closer to 50.. and one guy couldn't even be bothered to shave his full beard to portray a high school student. I mean, for f's sake.. at least make the guy shave if he wants the part.

Aleks Paunovic (the lead "student") is 54 years old as of this writing..... FIFTY FOUR years old.. but the audience is supposed to believe he's a high school student??? Did they pass out free hallucinogens at the screenings???

Now, okay.. so they cast who they thought was right for a part.. but then WHY have the opening settings relate to high school? There was no need for that. They could have been work colleagues.. that would have only required changing the setting for 3-4 scenes near the beginning and perhaps rewriting a few lines - nothing too difficult. And doing so would have made casting 40 year old actors make MUCH more sense -- because CLEARLY none of the cast is anywhere close to high school age.

Because of this poor casting.. after the opening sequence.. when they show the high school portion.. it just seems so ludicrous, so utterly ridiculous that it immediately sets the film in an "oh this is just f'n dumb" position it must crawl out of... it tried.. got close.. but meh.. don't think it ever did.

If this was the "best of Hexcon".. all I can say is Hexcon must really be bad.

I saw this film at Nightmares Film Festival and it blew me away. Did not expect this! I haven't laughed so hard in a horror comedy like this before. The writing, casting, DIRECTING, scoring, EVERYTHING flowed together so well. Can't wait to see more from this crew! I'm now a Puppet Killer fan for LIFE.