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A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people's souls into puppets.A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people's souls into puppets.A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people's souls into puppets.
William Frederick Knight
- Medical Examiner
- (as William Knight)
Patrick Thomas
- Shipping Agent
- (as Pat Thomas)
Ariauna Albright
- Operator
- (voice)
J.R. Bookwalter
- Tommy Berke
- (voice)
Eric W. Edwards
- Bully
- (uncredited)
Matthew Jason Walsh
- All Puppets
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Neal Marshall Stevens
- David Schmoeller(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaMost scenes of the Puppets are recycled from previous films in the Puppet Master series.
- GoofsWhen the pieces for the new puppet are being carved they are wood, when the puppet is finished it is metal.
- Quotes
Dr. Magrew: Robert, I know this may be painful, but try to relax.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits consist of a montage of scenes from the previous 5 Puppet Master movies.
- Alternate versionsThe Blu-ray release has a new title sequence, longer death scenes (which were presumably cut to avoid an NC-17 rating) and all of the digital effects on the Tank puppet have been redone from scratch.
- ConnectionsEdited into When Puppets and Dolls Attack! (2004)
- SoundtracksWill You Visit Me On Sunday
Written by Charlie Louvin
Produced by Clyde Beavers'
Performed by George Jones
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I thought it might be a good idea to catch up on some of the Puppet Master films. In hindsight...
Curse of the Puppet Master, the sixth film in the long running horror franchise, sees Toulon's tiny terrors in the possession of Dr. Magrew (George Peck ), owner of The House of Marvels, a small-town roadside attraction that he runs with the help of his pretty daughter Jane (Emily Harrison). When Magrew meets gas station attendant Robert 'Tank' Winsley (Josh Green), who likes to carve with wood, he offers him a job at his place, creating the many parts for a new living puppet, into which he secretly plans to transfer Robert's soul.
Director David DeCoteau (as Victoria Sloan) starts things off well enough, introducing his characters and setting up a few deserving victims along the way: a gang of local bullies, led by Joey Carp (Michael Guerin), and a nasty sheriff (Robert Donavan). So far, so good, but then it all goes pear-shaped: there's too much use of archival footage of the puppets, the boom mic makes an appearance, very little effort is made to make the puppets move as though they're alive, the gore is disappointing (just some blood splashed around), DeCoteau provides lots of shots of shirtless hunks (no surprises there) but no T&A from Harrison, there is an overuse of lightning and smoke to the point where it is distracting, and worse of all, the ending is ridiculously abrupt. The film simply stops mid-action, leaving the viewer to ponder whether they fell asleep and missed something. We should be so lucky.
3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.
Director David DeCoteau (as Victoria Sloan) starts things off well enough, introducing his characters and setting up a few deserving victims along the way: a gang of local bullies, led by Joey Carp (Michael Guerin), and a nasty sheriff (Robert Donavan). So far, so good, but then it all goes pear-shaped: there's too much use of archival footage of the puppets, the boom mic makes an appearance, very little effort is made to make the puppets move as though they're alive, the gore is disappointing (just some blood splashed around), DeCoteau provides lots of shots of shirtless hunks (no surprises there) but no T&A from Harrison, there is an overuse of lightning and smoke to the point where it is distracting, and worse of all, the ending is ridiculously abrupt. The film simply stops mid-action, leaving the viewer to ponder whether they fell asleep and missed something. We should be so lucky.
3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.
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- Oct 6, 2019
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- Curse of the Puppet Master: The Human Experiment
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- $250,000 (estimated)
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