Curse of the Puppet Master (DVD, 1998)

A good old-fashioned B movie, nothing special really but still certainly quite enjoyable with some nice journeyman acting from the attractive cast.
It is, however, more interesting for the story behind the film than for the actual movie itself.
While the cliche "mad scientist experiments on his assistant" plot of this film is very similar to the 1973 film ''Sssssss'' only with puppets instead of snakes, it was originally planned to be much different.
''Curse of the Puppet Master'' was originally meant to be the first of an epic ''Puppet Wars'' trilogy where Andre Toulon & his creations would battle the Mummy, Frankenstein & Dracula, with Guy Rolfe set to return as Toulon & Turhan Bey being considered for the part of a mysterious Egyptian.
Funding fell through at the last minute, but not before second unit footage was shot of an old-fashioned steam train in Romania, footage that was eventually used in ''Retro Puppet Master''.
With the usual fine extras you expect from a Full Moon feature, including the obligatory "VideoZone" making-of documentary.

Great movie! I loved the plot and the puppets that starred in this one.. I only wish there could a continuation of the series.. Paramount needs to allow all the movies to be made into DVD's.. That way, more people could get the rest of the set without having to buy the boxed version.. I am a collector of everything that is based on these movies.. I have all the puppets, (all versions)and vcr tapes, now I need to get the rest of the DVD's..

Bought for my grown daughter she loves these movies and you cant find them anywhere in stores.Good price and fast shipping.

A "classic" horror movie from the past. One in a series of horror movies about small puppets that come to life and reek havoic on the ones who have "wronged" them in the past.

If you take the Puppet Master series for what it is then it was a fairly strong direct-to-video B-franchise with its first 5 entries. Puppet Master 6 (released under the title Curse of the Puppet Master) however is the major drop of the series and was made when Full Moon Pictures was having some finacial trouble. During this hard time at Full Moon they pumped out really cheap and really lame sequels in their successfull franchises (Subspecies IV and Trancers 6). Curse comes out better than some of their other sequels but it is still a band film

The story is a direct steal from the 1970's horror film Ssssssssss. When have a young simpleton boy taken in by a freindly magician (with a dark secret) and his daughter. The boy and the daughter fall in love but her father has other plans for the boy....to turn him into a living puppet! Oh, the magician also has our lovable killer dolls as pets in cages.

Fans of the series will notice many plot holes, the most noticable one being the return of Ms. Leech who was clearly burned to death in Puppet Master II.

What makes this sequel sink lower is that Full Moon pulls a "Roger Corman" with some of the films footage. What I mean by this is that Full Moon pulls footage from previous Puppet Master films and splices it into this film play as NEW material. This is not flashback type storytelling containing clips from previous films. Roger Corman was notorious for this as he lifted scenese from previous films and spliced it into his new films. An example is the Deathstalker series where each sequel contains footage from the first Deathstalker played off as "new" footage. This is extremely cheap and hackeyed filmmaking that is an insult to fans.

Curse of the Puppet Master may not be the worst of the overlong series (Retro Puppet Master and Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys take that "prize") but it is close. I personally only own the film because it came in the box set with the rest of the series.