A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people’s souls into puppets. While Puppet Master 5 was intended to be the final installment of the series four years earlier, Curse of the Puppet Master promptly revived the series.
As someone commented on the previous post when shared on Facebook – “When a film has ‘The Final Chapter’ in it’s title you know it wont be the last one” and they were right as we can see. “Curse Of The Puppet Master” is the sixth entry in the series, and it also isn’t the last.
This film has so many flaws it’s hard to think someone at the studio didn’t notice, first of all the fourth and fifth entries which saw Rick Myers become the new Puppet Master are completely forgotten, despite my dislike of the entries in the series, I hate it when previous films are ignored like they never happened.
What you see on screen is not the intended film Full Moon wanted to make. it was originally planned to be much different. Curse of the Puppet Master was originally meant to be the first of an epic Puppet Wars trilogy where Andre Toulon and his creations would battle the Mummy, Frankenstein and Dracula, with Guy Rolfe set to return as Toulon and Turhan Bey being considered for the part of a mysterious Egyptian. Unfortunately funding fell through at the last minute.
So now we are left with the character of Tank. A very tall but meek young man who works at the gas station in town. He passes his time by carving small wooden statues. Who is often bullied by a guy named Joey, after witnessing Tank getting bullied and seeing his craftsmanship, Dr. Magrew (who I guess is the new Puppet Master as he has ownership of them) hires him to work on a new puppet for his business, the house of marvels.
We now spend the entire film watching Tank carve away at pieces of wood for the new puppet, whilst also being distracted by Dr. Magrew’s daughter Jane. Not very much happens now apart from Tank’s nightmares and his love affair with Jane. Then right at the end the story comes back to life and it’s got to be one of the biggest kickers I’ve seen in a film!
After watching Tank carve away for the whole film, we are finally revealed with the new robot…………………A metallic puppet with a TV screen and lasers! Did I miss something there?!?! It’s a very weak film, but at least it’s more entertaining than 4 & 5.
Miscellaneous fact about the film:
Most scenes of the Puppets are recycled from previous films in the Puppet Master series.
