Review: Puppetmaster
In 1939, at the Bodega Bay Inn in California, puppeteer Andre Toulon is putting away his creations whilst a couple of Nazis are about to break the door down. He subsequently commits suicide. 50 years later, a collection of psychics (including Paul Le Mat and fortune teller Irene Miracle) arrive at the same Bodega Bay Inn having been telepathically invited there by a man who was obsessed with animating the inanimate. The psychics learn when they arrive that their host has recently committed suicide (shouldn’t they have seen that coming, though?). Instead they are menaced by Toulon’s puppets, out of their hiding spot all these years later. I used to watch a lot of Full Moon movies in my teens, which inevitably meant watching the first five or six “Puppetmaster” films. It was really the franchise that the company was built on, as I believe this was Full Moon’s very first release after the collapse of Charles Band’s previous company Empire. After the fifth or sixth one my cinema...