The Puppet MastersYear: 1994 Director: Stuart Orme Written by: Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, David S. Goyer Threat: Aliens Weapon of Choice: Disease Based upon: novel - The Puppet Masters - Robert A. Heinlein |
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The tyranist's thoughts
What is it about alien invasion movies that scares us so much? Or me at least? I really think that if I knew the people
around me may not be who they are, I would probably go insane. But Donald Sutherland isn't insane and he makes this kind
of movie all the time.
So aliens are invading and a special government agency is trying to stop them, but not very successfully. For the first
half of the movie just about anyone who comes within a few feet of the aliens is taken over. Then, of course, there
are thousands of them and it's time to fight back.
I like the core idea for the aliens in this one is pretty cool. I like the way they attache themselves. The production
itself is top-notch as well. All in all, it's a pleasure to watch. The action is pretty good and the story interesting.
You shouldn't have too hard a time telling who has been taken over, but that would be it's only real downfall.
Total Skulls: 3
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | ||
Former celebrity appears | ||
Bad title | ||
Bad premise | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
Characters forget about threat | ||
Secluded location | ||
Power is cut | ||
Phone lines are cut | ||
Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
Camera is the killer | ||
Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
Victim locks self in with killer | ||
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
Toilet stall scene | ||
Shower/bath scene | ||
Car stalls or won't start | ||
Cat jumps out | ||
Fake scare | ||
Laughable scare | ||
Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
Dream sequence | ||
Hallucination/Vision | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
x years before/later | ||
Dark and stormy night | ||
Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
Killer wears a mask | ||
Killer is in closet | ||
Killer is in car with victim | ||
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
Unscary villain/monster | ||
Beheading | ||
Blood fountain | ||
Blood hits camera | ||
Poor death effect | ||
Excessive gore | ||
No one dies at all | ||
Virgin survives | ||
Geek/Nerd survives | ||
Little kid lamely survives | ||
Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
Unresolved subplots | ||
"It was all a dream" ending | ||
Unbelievably happy ending | ||
Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
What the hell? |