Paul Le Mat,
Irene Miracle,
Matt Roe,
Robin Frates,
Marya Small
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In this tense horror outing Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. Unfortunately, he is a rather twisted fellow and his puppets become... read more
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Flixster Reviews (576)
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May 20, 2012The first Puppet Master film is a fairly decent horror film that glimpses of great ideas, but never is fully realized. This first entry in the Puppet Master franchise is by far the best. This is a strange horror film, the premise is quite intriguing and there's some good ideas ex... read more
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February 5, 2011Disappointingly slow-moving and talky comic horror about a Puppet Master who has given life to a bunch of insane looking puppets who turn murderous. The puppets themselves did look pretty cool and menacing but they weren't given enough screentime to create havoc, their time comes... read more
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November 16, 2010This movie is really boring and kinda confusing. There's some gore, but not nearly enough. In fact there isn't enough of anything. I didn't even find this scary or cringe worthy at all. I'm curious to watch the others, how they made 37 movies off this one pile of cheesy is beyond... read more
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August 3, 2008One of the strangest premises for a horror film I've seen, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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June 20, 2008How does one be convincing as a psychic? I'm not to sure but what I do know is that Cate Blanchett managed it in The Gift. Here however we have a bunch of 2D emotionless vessels whose only characteristic is how their psychic powers work. The film is also slow, even during the mur... read more
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July 8, 2007A classic Full Moon film, as a group of psychics are attacked by a group of living puppets with different abilities in gorey fashion. The backstory of the puppets concerns their master surviving the Nazi troopers. It's a good balance of story, gorey effects, frightening scenes, a... read more
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July 3, 2007"Puppetmaster" is badly directed/poorly edited, the acting is below average, there are huge plot holes where things are not explained at all, and the stop-motion puppet effects are not just really dated but were actually pretty archaic when the film was new too. Watch this to see... read more
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June 22, 2007Absolutely awful, not scary a really dated film, I'm not sure how I lasted until the end, this is one for the bin
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December 13, 2011fb208103125While when I was a child I wad terrified of the murderous puppets in both this and the subsequent (and inferior) sequels. The film is more like a direct to video B-horror film with terrible production values, barely passable performances, and some cheesy effects. While "Puppet ... read more
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January 1, 2012fb100000185301014Technically speaking, the puppets looked great, quite impressive really. However there is nothing scary in this film, the bad acting scared me a lot along with the bad script. It has a promisingly start but didn't continue for the rest of the film. The powers of the psychics coul... read more
Critic Reviews
July 15, 2011
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
December 10, 2007
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
rather dull
September 25, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
No review available.
February 25, 2005
Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals
No review available.
August 15, 2003
Michael Szymanski, Zap2it.com
No review available.
July 20, 2003
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
No review available.
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