The tyranist's thoughts
Just the thought that someone out there finds puppets scary is sort of amusing. Knowing that there are seven entries in this series is downright funny. Still, this is the franchise that started Full Moon and you can't blame them for trying. It doesn't turn out that bad.
Filmed at the same time as Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (which, of course, it wasn't--the final chapter I mean), the film is actually surprisingly cohesive. A research group is dangerously close to cracking the secret of artificial intelligence when they start dying off one by one. Flash forward to a reclusive hotel (yes, it's the same one) where a brilliant young man assigned to the research team is caretaking for the winter so that he can be isolated. On this particular night, however, he seems to be hosting a party. Well, the bad guys show up and people start to die. Okay, one of them. There's some blood and wounding going on though. Eventually the spirit/ghost/apparition/hallucination of Toulon returns and passes on the secrets to our young scientist.
Not really a horror classic, but I think I actually had more fun with this one than the first entry in the series. It's different though. The first entry was much bloodier and more of a slasher, here we've degenerated to the level of that damn little Zuni Fetish doll in the Trilogies of Terror. But better. Way better. This has everything over the fetish doll.
Check it out. This is a fun series and you know that you can count on Full Moon. On the rare occasions that they've let me down, I've told you about it. This is not one of those times.