Retro Puppet Master

I've been a puppet master fan for a long time. I can't wait to get it on Blu-Ray. But it plays perfectly. No scratches.

very retro horror

IT WAS GREAT. I AM SO GLAD YOU HAD IT.

My fiancé and I dedicated ourselves to watching all 15 of the puppet master movies. It follows no real plot but if you like grotesque puppets and bad dialogue, I recommend.

Great

This is probably my favorite one in series, which is very rare that a 6 or 7 entry, is usually someone's favorite, because usually when you get that far into a series they become stale. But. For me, I thought the idea of which very creative to base it in the 20s and how the series started. The more unless I meant to say how the story started how the puppets became living instead of just marionettes. I also give it credit that this one is the only one that is pg 13 in the whole entire series, where the rest of them are either are rated r or not rated at all due to extreme violence, which trust me, it does not offend me. Inclined, a cool to see story wise the evolution of how they all changed throughout the decades before Andre Toulon death. The only thing that annoys me, which doesn't downgrade my review at all just a statement. This is the only one on the full moon site, meaning the Amazon page that has not been upgraded to a 16 : 9 ratio (WIDE-SCREEN). Every other one has been transferred over. But this one which kind of stinks because I don't want to buy it on blue ray just to see it on its original aspect ratio so jet heads up on that diversion, as of right now, is the same quality as the 7 dollar. And film collection with the 3 kill joys that they sell for 799. Literally. Maybe the upgrade it soon when I bought part 2 about 4 or 5 months back, which would have been may or April 2017, along with part 4 and 5, they were wide screen when I was subscribed to a moon channel and disappeared in that mode when my subscription ended. Magically, a month later, they were upgraded. So maybe that will happen with this. But it's only 599. So you get what you pay for.

Horripilante!

This seventh film in the Puppet Master series takes back to Toulon’s earliest days as a puppeteer, when his puppets still had strings. This is a wacky one, a PG-13 installment in what was once a horror series about killer dolls, but now seems to have reached comedic stages almost. I can’t tell how in tune the cast was with how corny this material is, but most of the cast seems to play it straight and serious, making this turkey even more hilarious. So perhaps everyone was in on the joke, but I doubt it since the intentional humor falls flat and the majority of the movie, no matter how laughable it might be, is played with a serious tone. Now to some, this will just come off as a bad movie, but I found it to be a lot of laughs and intentional or not, that leads to entertainment. So in truth, this is a real stinker at first glance, but you can extract some fun if you embrace how bad the performances are and how overly serious the entire picture is. But if you want horror themed, blood tinged puppet attacks, don’t expect that here, as the puppets have been more or less shelved. I did have decent hopes for Retro Puppet Master back when it was released, as the throwback puppets have a cool look and all I wanted to see were these old school killers get unleashed, which never really happens here. As the PG-13 rating should indicate, the kills are minimal and while the series has never been soaked in gore, what there was before, is no more. So the puppets look cool, but are given little to and instead, the movie is driven by the human stories. I have no idea why, but I suppose it must have been profitable or they wouldn’t have shelved the puppets so often in some of the sequels. While the puppets aren’t around as much as we might like, we do have Greg Sestero, the legendary star of The Room, who has the lead role in this one. His accents, he tries several in Retro Puppet Master, are outrageous and he is so serious as Toulon, you can’t help but laugh. I am always glad to see Sestero in movies and while his performance is cheese central, he adds entertainment and at this point in the Puppet Master franchise, that is much needed. The cast also includes Guy Rolfe, Jack Donner, Brigitta Dau, and Stephen Blackehart. Visit my site for a full review!

Good film

Mis à part le fait que cet opus nous apporte un éclaircissement sur les origines des marionnettes, il ne revêt pas un intérêt particulier. Il en serait même ennuyant. Le processus pour leur donner la vie est différent, bizarre...! A voir pour les fans, mais à oublier aussitôt...!

It is not a great movie, not at all, but seeing Greg Sestero try to portray a French guy, which does not succeed, was hilarious.

Hey, I like cinematic rubbish as much as the next guy and have spent many an hour wasting my life ploughing through direct to video atrocities like a demented cave dweller - yet even I had to call time on this 1999 masterwork from my favourite genre junk peddlers - producer Charles Band and director David DeCoteau. A film so seemingly inept, I almost thought someone had swapped my disc for a videotaped amateur dramatics play... As this is a prequel to another prequel (the much respected part 3 of the series) my head was already spinning from the get go as we meet Andre Toulon (the great Guy Rolfe seriously slumming it) in hiding with his puppets, following the end of World War II. Sitting cosily by the fire, he begins to tell his pint sized buddies about the time he first gave life to them by taking us back to the early 1900s... Here, we meet a young Toulon (played unconvincingly by talent vacuum Greg Sestero) whose working as a puppeteer in a snow covered Paris. Here, he meets future wife Elsa (Brigitta Dau), alongside an Egyptian sorcerer who for some weird reason decides to teach him how to give life to those that have none (think Re-Animator, but played by a dimwit) - by first transferring the soul of Toulon's recently deceased homeless friend into one of his dolls... However, this mysterious wizard guy is also being pursued by 3 random re-animated mummy-type fellas (as you do), who wish to take back his secret of immortality and will do almost anything to achieve their goal... ...which y'know, sounds kind of alright. Right? Wrong. From the lacklustre direction to the ''so poor its almost worth seeing'' acting (lead Sestero sports a beleagured rabbit in headlights 10-yard stare that gets old real fast), rendering this particular foray into Puppet Master shenanigans a major league damp squib. Granted, the production design is quite interesting and I had no issue with the general screenplay structure (from writers Charles Band, Benjamin Carr and David Schmoeller) but the way the production is mounted leaves a lot to be desired. Its hard to rag on a series like this as to be honest, they are simple low budget wonders but on this occasion, I couldn't fight the power: This was boring and no manner of funky puppets or crazy mummies was gonna alter the truth. A dud's a dud, I'm afraid. Full Moon's US DVD release sports a fine transfer with vibrant audio - but as the movie resembled a hastily put together am-dram play starring your drunk uncle, that's hardly a recommendation. As I previously stated, its hard to give Full Moon movies a hard time (I'm a fan of their fun, anything goes, no budget ingenuity) and I'm sure its hard to deliver gonzo thrills on a budget that wouldn't cover the crew catering on an episode of 'Big Bang Theory' - but in their race to produce a ''legitimate'' flick that can stand on shelves or streaming services - they threw out imagination and craziness that usually set their brand apart, instead delivering ho hum and banality. Shame.