Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
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| Year: | 2004 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Ted Nicolaou |
| Genre: | Average crossover fare |
| Starring: | Corey Feldman, Vanessa Angel, Danielle Keaton, Silvia Suvadova |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431340/ |
| Tagline: | Playtime is over. Now the REAL fun begins. |
| Favourite line: | "We're not weird, honey. Everybody else is." |
Puppet Master 9 or Demonic Toys 3, depending on your point of view.
The plot:
Present day relative of Andre Toulon, Robert Toulon, still crafts puppets and, along with his daughter, attempts to perfect the formula that will bring life to the puppets once more.
Meanwhile, evil toy manufacturer Erica Sharpe has hatched a plan: manufacture toys that, on the morning of Christmas Day, will come to life, and drain the blood of all they encounter.
Not sure why – it’s never made clear!
Erica, along with the demon Bael she has resurrected with the blood of an innocent, set about trying to get their hands on the Toulon puppets, to help them with their plot, but Robert has other ideas. Pimping his puppets so that they have cybernetic enhancements, a showdown between Toulon’s puppets, the Demonic Toys and Bael seems inevitable……
A non-canon entry into the Puppet Master franchise, this, as it was not made by Full Moon Productions, instead being a straight to TV affair produced by the ScyFy Channel, Stateside.
Starring Corey Feldman, it’s a bit of a mess, but not without its charm.
Being a TV movie, production standards are even lower than you would usually expect from a Puppet Master movie. The acting is laughable at times – even Feldman, who is actually quite well known and can, usually, you know….act – and the script is derisory.
And I’m being kind.
The plot makes very little sense, and is essentially a riff on Halloween III: Season of the Witch - the one where the kids’ heads melt and insects pour out - but even more cheap and cheerful.
Things to like about it?
Well, the puppets selected – budget seems to have restricted the number utilised – are probably the fan favourites with Blade, Jester, Pinhead and Six Shooter featured from Puppet Master, whilst Baby Oopsy Daisy, Jack Attack and Grizzly Teddy join the fracas from Demonic Toys.
The plot, though nonsensical and clumsy, is at least entertainingly demented, the concept of all the children across America being slaughtered on Christmas Day a pleasing one.
Not a classic, by any stretch of your tiny, tiny imagination, but, heh, it’s Puppet Master.
What’s not to like?
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