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? |