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THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starring Ben Gould (Saved by the Bell) and Jaason Simmons (Baywatch).

Thirteen-year-old ANNA FRANKENSTEIN is intrigued by the secret experiments of her eccentric uncle VICTOR (Jaason Simmons), but her curiosity soon turns to total terror when she's confronted by Uncle Victor's latest creation-a hideous-looking monster with the soul of a man, stitched together and reanimated from the bodies of the dead. ... Read more

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THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starring Ben Gould (Saved by the Bell) and Jaason Simmons (Baywatch).

Thirteen-year-old ANNA FRANKENSTEIN is intrigued by the secret experiments of her eccentric uncle VICTOR (Jaason Simmons), but her curiosity soon turns to total terror when she's confronted by Uncle Victor's latest creation-a hideous-looking monster with the soul of a man, stitched together and reanimated from the bodies of the dead. ... Read more

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Seventh movie in the series better that the last three.
This is an entertaining prequel to the entire series. Andre Toulon tells the puppets from the first 6 movies about their ancestors and how he learned "the secret of life".Exceptionally bad acting, even for Puppet Master movies. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the standard lack of consistency with the rest of the Puppet Master mythology. However, if you're a fan of the series you already expect these things. Far superior to the embarrasing sixth film, Curse of the Puppet Master.

Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga
I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.

When it opened up with the aging Toulon (THE puppetmaster, in my opinion) and his friends, I had high hopes. However, he's not here to act he's here to tell a story about his younger days. You see, a long time ago a bunch of white people pretending to be Arabs stole the secret to revitalizing life from Sutek (who, if I remember my Egyptian lore, was banished to another world and has no powers any way). Sutek gets mad and revives three mummies to catch the Egyptian that stole it.

These mummies are perhaps the craziest part of this movie. For one, they annoyingly repeat each other's sentences. For another, they act and look like the Agents from the first Matrix (even with one leader mummy, the "Agent Smith" of the Undead). Also, they're not that scary. They kill you by basically pointing at you. This means no gore and no real excitement. Any way, back to the puppets:

Toulon originally was head of a puppet troupe entertaining the wealthy of 19th century Paris. The Egyptian comes and teaches Toulon the secret of revitalization. This isn't all that great - the mummies come to the theater and kill off all of Toulon's friends looking for the Egyptian. Toulon finds them and puts their souls into the puppets. The mummies come and attack Toulon, but thankfully Toulon has the puppets to help. Actually, the puppets aren't all that great. One of them just kinda nips a mummy in the ankle and then gets kicked away. And that was your fight scene for the entire movie.

Things just kinda happen from there...the love interest gets kidnapped from the Swiss Embassy, Toulon saves her, and then the movie up and ends. Like the reviewer before me said, the film suggests a sequal. Toulon looks to his puppets and says, "that is another story for another day."

All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!"

This film had a lot of potential (leaving those stupid teenagers getting attacked by demons and going back to Toulon's story) but unfortunately it gets marred by bad scripts and acting. I might also add the special affects in this are HORRIBLE. How horrible? In one scene, you can see the hand holding one of the puppets! No I don't mean if you look hard you see a finger, I mean you can actually see a full-fledged, identifiable hand lifting a puppet up! Did the editor want to kill the movie? What would it have cost them to refilm that part? $2? Maybe a quarter?

Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER.
The Puppet Master series, definitely tired after Part III, drags terribly in this, the seventh installment, less a movie than a commercial for more Puppet Master toys. Basically a prequel, an aged Toulon tells his puppets the story of the origins of his powers and the puppets themselves, introducing a few new puppets and "retro" versions of those we already know.

Fans of the Puppet Master series are a forgiving bunch. As an owner of the box set of all seven films (so far), I must admit that my standards aren't too high when it comes to horror films, especially these Full Moon creations. This time, however, there was no gratifying gore or over-the-top characters (a la BLOOD DOLLS) to make up for the downright terrible acting and lack of action or compelling story. I'm sure the budget for this production was ultra-low, but even the traditionally bad animation of the puppets was especially stilted in this chapter. There are zero scares - and zero blood for that matter. The puppets merely slash at reanimated mummies sent to retrieve Toulon's secret--and they barely manage to scare up some sawdust while dispatching the villains.

The film's ending in itself is a reason to celebrate, save for the fact that yet another sequel is set up with a last line of "that's another story for another time." In the accompanying VideoZone feature, Charles Band assures the viewer that a full line of action figures will be marketed for this film. No kidding. If you're a Puppet Master fan, though, you'll need to own this. There's just something about a film that's so bad as to make it irresistable. In the end, I don't know what's worse: this film or the fact that I know I'll be first in line to buy Part 8 when it's released...and Part 9...and 10...

JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT
I hadn't heard of the 'Puppet Master' series at all when this came on the SFI channel recently. 'Retro' has craftsmanship from the very start, with good acting and well-done scene-setting. Nonetheless I was startled at the high quality of the depiction of the evil followers of Zutek, a forgotten god of Ancient Egyptian times. They spoke and comported themselves exactly like the 'Bicameral Man' of Julian Jaynes book 'Origin of Consciousness..'. When Zutek spoke to them, the hypnotic power of that voice was excellently rendered. I don't know if the producers had read Jaynes, but the highly expert way they did the villains is typical of the entire movie. The puppets themselves, mere pieces of painted wood bobbing up and down, became powerful beings just via a few grunts and some very effectively rythmic music. This is one of the few movies I wanted to see again right away, and to own on DVD.

Are They Crazy???
Retro Puppet Master had to be one of THE worst movies ever. It's not even worth watching unless you like watching hot guys crash in burn in such a horrible movie. I feel awfully bad that the lead cast as Andre Toulon as a young man had to make his first lead in such a bad film. Don't even waste your time and money on this movie. Full Moon Pictures really know how to drag a movie series untill it really burns! ... Read more

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Seventh movie in the series better that the last three.
This is an entertaining prequel to the entire series. Andre Toulon tells the puppets from the first 6 movies about their ancestors and how he learned "the secret of life".Exceptionally bad acting, even for Puppet Master movies. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the standard lack of consistency with the rest of the Puppet Master mythology. However, if you're a fan of the series you already expect these things. Far superior to the embarrasing sixth film, Curse of the Puppet Master.

Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga
I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.

When it opened up with the aging Toulon (THE puppetmaster, in my opinion) and his friends, I had high hopes. However, he's not here to act he's here to tell a story about his younger days. You see, a long time ago a bunch of white people pretending to be Arabs stole the secret to revitalizing life from Sutek (who, if I remember my Egyptian lore, was banished to another world and has no powers any way). Sutek gets mad and revives three mummies to catch the Egyptian that stole it.

These mummies are perhaps the craziest part of this movie. For one, they annoyingly repeat each other's sentences. For another, they act and look like the Agents from the first Matrix (even with one leader mummy, the "Agent Smith" of the Undead). Also, they're not that scary. They kill you by basically pointing at you. This means no gore and no real excitement. Any way, back to the puppets:

Toulon originally was head of a puppet troupe entertaining the wealthy of 19th century Paris. The Egyptian comes and teaches Toulon the secret of revitalization. This isn't all that great - the mummies come to the theater and kill off all of Toulon's friends looking for the Egyptian. Toulon finds them and puts their souls into the puppets. The mummies come and attack Toulon, but thankfully Toulon has the puppets to help. Actually, the puppets aren't all that great. One of them just kinda nips a mummy in the ankle and then gets kicked away. And that was your fight scene for the entire movie.

Things just kinda happen from there...the love interest gets kidnapped from the Swiss Embassy, Toulon saves her, and then the movie up and ends. Like the reviewer before me said, the film suggests a sequal. Toulon looks to his puppets and says, "that is another story for another day."

All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!"

This film had a lot of potential (leaving those stupid teenagers getting attacked by demons and going back to Toulon's story) but unfortunately it gets marred by bad scripts and acting. I might also add the special affects in this are HORRIBLE. How horrible? In one scene, you can see the hand holding one of the puppets! No I don't mean if you look hard you see a finger, I mean you can actually see a full-fledged, identifiable hand lifting a puppet up! Did the editor want to kill the movie? What would it have cost them to refilm that part? $2? Maybe a quarter?

Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER.
The Puppet Master series, definitely tired after Part III, drags terribly in this, the seventh installment, less a movie than a commercial for more Puppet Master toys. Basically a prequel, an aged Toulon tells his puppets the story of the origins of his powers and the puppets themselves, introducing a few new puppets and "retro" versions of those we already know.

Fans of the Puppet Master series are a forgiving bunch. As an owner of the box set of all seven films (so far), I must admit that my standards aren't too high when it comes to horror films, especially these Full Moon creations. This time, however, there was no gratifying gore or over-the-top characters (a la BLOOD DOLLS) to make up for the downright terrible acting and lack of action or compelling story. I'm sure the budget for this production was ultra-low, but even the traditionally bad animation of the puppets was especially stilted in this chapter. There are zero scares - and zero blood for that matter. The puppets merely slash at reanimated mummies sent to retrieve Toulon's secret--and they barely manage to scare up some sawdust while dispatching the villains.

The film's ending in itself is a reason to celebrate, save for the fact that yet another sequel is set up with a last line of "that's another story for another time." In the accompanying VideoZone feature, Charles Band assures the viewer that a full line of action figures will be marketed for this film. No kidding. If you're a Puppet Master fan, though, you'll need to own this. There's just something about a film that's so bad as to make it irresistable. In the end, I don't know what's worse: this film or the fact that I know I'll be first in line to buy Part 8 when it's released...and Part 9...and 10...

JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT
I hadn't heard of the 'Puppet Master' series at all when this came on the SFI channel recently. 'Retro' has craftsmanship from the very start, with good acting and well-done scene-setting. Nonetheless I was startled at the high quality of the depiction of the evil followers of Zutek, a forgotten god of Ancient Egyptian times. They spoke and comported themselves exactly like the 'Bicameral Man' of Julian Jaynes book 'Origin of Consciousness..'. When Zutek spoke to them, the hypnotic power of that voice was excellently rendered. I don't know if the producers had read Jaynes, but the highly expert way they did the villains is typical of the entire movie. The puppets themselves, mere pieces of painted wood bobbing up and down, became powerful beings just via a few grunts and some very effectively rythmic music. This is one of the few movies I wanted to see again right away, and to own on DVD.

Are They Crazy???
Retro Puppet Master had to be one of THE worst movies ever. It's not even worth watching unless you like watching hot guys crash in burn in such a horrible movie. I feel awfully bad that the lead cast as Andre Toulon as a young man had to make his first lead in such a bad film. Don't even waste your time and money on this movie. Full Moon Pictures really know how to drag a movie series untill it really burns! ... Read more

Reviews (19)

Seventh movie in the series better that the last three.
This is an entertaining prequel to the entire series. Andre Toulon tells the puppets from the first 6 movies about their ancestors and how he learned "the secret of life".Exceptionally bad acting, even for Puppet Master movies. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the standard lack of consistency with the rest of the Puppet Master mythology. However, if you're a fan of the series you already expect these things. Far superior to the embarrasing sixth film, Curse of the Puppet Master.

Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga
I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.

When it opened up with the aging Toulon (THE puppetmaster, in my opinion) and his friends, I had high hopes. However, he's not here to act he's here to tell a story about his younger days. You see, a long time ago a bunch of white people pretending to be Arabs stole the secret to revitalizing life from Sutek (who, if I remember my Egyptian lore, was banished to another world and has no powers any way). Sutek gets mad and revives three mummies to catch the Egyptian that stole it.

These mummies are perhaps the craziest part of this movie. For one, they annoyingly repeat each other's sentences. For another, they act and look like the Agents from the first Matrix (even with one leader mummy, the "Agent Smith" of the Undead). Also, they're not that scary. They kill you by basically pointing at you. This means no gore and no real excitement. Any way, back to the puppets:

Toulon originally was head of a puppet troupe entertaining the wealthy of 19th century Paris. The Egyptian comes and teaches Toulon the secret of revitalization. This isn't all that great - the mummies come to the theater and kill off all of Toulon's friends looking for the Egyptian. Toulon finds them and puts their souls into the puppets. The mummies come and attack Toulon, but thankfully Toulon has the puppets to help. Actually, the puppets aren't all that great. One of them just kinda nips a mummy in the ankle and then gets kicked away. And that was your fight scene for the entire movie.

Things just kinda happen from there...the love interest gets kidnapped from the Swiss Embassy, Toulon saves her, and then the movie up and ends. Like the reviewer before me said, the film suggests a sequal. Toulon looks to his puppets and says, "that is another story for another day."

All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!"

This film had a lot of potential (leaving those stupid teenagers getting attacked by demons and going back to Toulon's story) but unfortunately it gets marred by bad scripts and acting. I might also add the special affects in this are HORRIBLE. How horrible? In one scene, you can see the hand holding one of the puppets! No I don't mean if you look hard you see a finger, I mean you can actually see a full-fledged, identifiable hand lifting a puppet up! Did the editor want to kill the movie? What would it have cost them to refilm that part? $2? Maybe a quarter?

Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER.
The Puppet Master series, definitely tired after Part III, drags terribly in this, the seventh installment, less a movie than a commercial for more Puppet Master toys. Basically a prequel, an aged Toulon tells his puppets the story of the origins of his powers and the puppets themselves, introducing a few new puppets and "retro" versions of those we already know.

Fans of the Puppet Master series are a forgiving bunch. As an owner of the box set of all seven films (so far), I must admit that my standards aren't too high when it comes to horror films, especially these Full Moon creations. This time, however, there was no gratifying gore or over-the-top characters (a la BLOOD DOLLS) to make up for the downright terrible acting and lack of action or compelling story. I'm sure the budget for this production was ultra-low, but even the traditionally bad animation of the puppets was especially stilted in this chapter. There are zero scares - and zero blood for that matter. The puppets merely slash at reanimated mummies sent to retrieve Toulon's secret--and they barely manage to scare up some sawdust while dispatching the villains.

The film's ending in itself is a reason to celebrate, save for the fact that yet another sequel is set up with a last line of "that's another story for another time." In the accompanying VideoZone feature, Charles Band assures the viewer that a full line of action figures will be marketed for this film. No kidding. If you're a Puppet Master fan, though, you'll need to own this. There's just something about a film that's so bad as to make it irresistable. In the end, I don't know what's worse: this film or the fact that I know I'll be first in line to buy Part 8 when it's released...and Part 9...and 10...

JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT
I hadn't heard of the 'Puppet Master' series at all when this came on the SFI channel recently. 'Retro' has craftsmanship from the very start, with good acting and well-done scene-setting. Nonetheless I was startled at the high quality of the depiction of the evil followers of Zutek, a forgotten god of Ancient Egyptian times. They spoke and comported themselves exactly like the 'Bicameral Man' of Julian Jaynes book 'Origin of Consciousness..'. When Zutek spoke to them, the hypnotic power of that voice was excellently rendered. I don't know if the producers had read Jaynes, but the highly expert way they did the villains is typical of the entire movie. The puppets themselves, mere pieces of painted wood bobbing up and down, became powerful beings just via a few grunts and some very effectively rythmic music. This is one of the few movies I wanted to see again right away, and to own on DVD.

Are They Crazy???
Retro Puppet Master had to be one of THE worst movies ever. It's not even worth watching unless you like watching hot guys crash in burn in such a horrible movie. I feel awfully bad that the lead cast as Andre Toulon as a young man had to make his first lead in such a bad film. Don't even waste your time and money on this movie. Full Moon Pictures really know how to drag a movie series untill it really burns! ... Read more