Puppet Master (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Puppet Master


caption = "Puppet Master" movie poster
director = David Schmoeller
producer = Hope Perello
Charles Band
writer = Charles Band
Kenneth J. Hall
starring = Paul Le Mat
Irene Miracle
Matt Roe
Kathryn O'Reily
Merrya Small
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Robin Frates
Barbara Crampton
and William Hickey
music = Richard Band
cinematography = Sergio Salvati
editing = Thomas Meshelski
distributor = Full Moon Features
released = birth date|1989|10|12
runtime = 90 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
followed_by = "Puppet Master II" (1991)
amg_id = 1:39684
imdb_id = 0098143|

"Puppet Master" is a horror film released in 1989 by newly-formed Full Moon Features. The film was rated R by the MPAA for strong graphic horror/fantasy violence, a strong sex scene with nudity, and strong language. The popular film would eventually spawn 9 sequels. Originally intended to be released into theaters in the summer of 1989 and onto Home Video in September 1989, it was then pushed to October 12, 1989 as a Direct-to-Video release, as Producer Charles Band had stated in an interview that he would make more money in the DTV field than he would in the theatrical market.

Plot

The film starts in 1939 Bodega Bay, California with an old puppeteer named Andre Toulon putting the finishing touches on a living puppet called Jester. A living Japanese-looking puppet stares out of the window at Blade, another living puppet, as Blade scouts the grounds of the Bodega Bay Inn that Andre is staying at. Two Nazis get out of a car and head for Toulon's room but Blade beats them there and Andre puts Blade, Jester, and the Japanese puppet into a chest, before hiding the chest in a wall panel. As the Nazis break down the door, Toulon shoots himself in the mouth with a pistol. The Oriental puppet is not seen for the rest of the movie.

The film now cuts to 1989, with a psychic named Alex. Alex has a dream that there are leeches on his stomach. Seconds later, he dreams of a man that he recognizes putting a gun to a woman's head. The film cuts to Dana, another psychic, who has visions of being slashed across the throat with a knife. Carissa and Frank, two other psychics who are apparently lovers, are reading the mind of another woman when they get a call from Alex. Frank tells Alex that they also got a call from Dana, and the four psychics assess that the visions they've been having were sent from a former colleague, Neil Gallagher.

The psychics meet at the Bodega Bay Inn that Neil is staying at and meet Neil's wife, Megan, as well as the housekeeper Theresa. The psychics are skeptical that Neil took a wife but it is forgotten when Megan tells them that Neil shot himself. Theresa, Megan, Dana, Carissa, Frank, and Alex leave the body and Pinhead, another living puppet, jumps from the casket.

Later, Carissa has visions of Neil violently attacking a woman in an elevator. Dana warns Theresa to stay away from the fireplace and later, at dinner, Dana makes several remarks about Neil that causes Megan to leave the table. Alex goes after her and explains about the powers of he, Dana, Carissa, and Frank.

When night starts, Theresa goes near the fireplace and is murdered when Pinhead hits her with a poker. The psychics hear a scream and find Megan passed out nearby Neil's body that has been moved into a chair by someone. Carissa and Frank spend some intimate time together in one of the hotel rooms but two more living puppets, Tunneler and Leech Woman, enter. Tunneler kills Carissa by drilling into her face and Leech Woman vomits leeches onto Frank's body that suck his blood out. Meanwhile, Dana sits around with her strange, dead and preserved dog until she has her leg broken by Pinhead. Pinhead chases her and repeatedly strangles and punches her until she manages to knock him away, only to have her throat slashed by Blade, using his knife-hand.

Alex has recurring nightmares of Megan having a gun put to her head by Neil and the other psychics being found dead, but is eventually awoken by Megan who takes him into the room that Andre Toulon was in, and tells him that Neil found Andre's secret to bringing inanimate objects, such as puppets, to life. Alex has a vision and they go downstairs to find the dead bodies of the psychics sitting around a table. They are stopped by the newly brought-back-to-life Neil. He fights with Alex and beats him up, until Neil hurts Jester and the puppets revolt against him. They lock him in an elevator and murder him by having Tunneler drill into him, Pinhead push into his temples, Blade cut off his fingers, and finally Leech Woman vomit a leech into his mouth.

The film cuts to days later with Alex leaving the hotel and Megan picking up Dana's dead and preserved dog, and she some how brings it to life...

Cast

* Paul Le Mat – Alex Whitaker
* William Hickey – Andre Toulon
* Irene Miracle – Dana Hadley
* Jimmie F. Skaggs – Neil Gallagher
* Robin Frates – Megan Gallagher
* Matt Roe – Frank Forrester
* Kathryn O'Reilly – Carlissa Stamford
* Mews Small – Theresa (as Merrya Small)
* Barbara Crampton – Woman at Carnival
* David Boyd – Man at Carnival
* Peter Frankland – Assassin #1
* Andrew Kimbrough – Assassin #2
* Ed Cook – Voice of Pinhead
* Linda Cook – Voice of Leech Woman
* Tim Dornberg – Voice of Tunneler
* Michael Laide – Voice of Jester
* Bert Rosario – Voice of Blade

Puppets featured in film

*Pinhead
*Blade
*Leech Woman
*Jester
*Tunneler
*Oriental puppet
*Indian Puppet

equel

* On June 25th 2008, producer Charles Band announced that he'll be making the tenth entry in this series, titled "Puppet Master: Axis of Evil" which is said to take place after , with the puppets fighting off with the Nazis and the Japanese of Axis Powers, and it's rumored that David DeCoteau is suppose to be the director. Along with Puppet Master is Demonic Toys, Killjoy (2000 film), and Head of the Family

External links

*imdb title|id=0098143|title=Puppet Master
* [http://www.fullmoondirect.com/ Full Moon Direct (official site)]
* [http://www.ween.net/puppetmaster/movies.html Puppet Master Movies Fansite]