Product Description

Victoria Sloan's horror film Curse of the Puppet Master comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are neither subtitles nor closed-captions on this release. Supplemental materials include interviews, and trailers. This is a fine, inexpensive release for genre enthusiasts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59473 in DVD
• Brand: Koch International
• Released on: 1999-01-12
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.com
Andre Toulon's living puppets are back, this time in the possession of Dr. Magrew (George Peck), who runs a house of marvels and is experimenting to create the perfect being, without all the inner conflict and torment of humans. To do so, he recruits a talented young woodcarver named Tank (Josh Green). But Magrew's plans get complicated when his daughter (appealingly played by Emily Harrison) falls for the young man. Fans of the Puppet Master series will probably enjoy this sixth installment. The three leads are well cast, the production design shows some imagination, and the script works--until the abrupt and nonsensical ending. It's as if the last reel were missing, which might explain its actual running time of 78 minutes (not the 90 minutes promised on the case). The puppets also seem less animated than in previous films; nevertheless, they still manage to get their whacks in. Trivia factoid: director "Victoria Sloane" is one of several stage names used by David DeCoteau, who also directed Puppet Masters III and 7. --Geof Miller

Customer Reviews

Puppet Master - The Box Set
Ok, first off, these movies are not movies made to hopefully earn an Oscar award. These movies are just great fun. They are mostly just fun. I don't view these movies as horror. There is a great deal of humour in them. Just imagine several Puppets running around with their own personality and killing method. Either killing for good causes, but not always. Not easy to really explain these movies in a few lines. But if you are looking at this review, I am pretty sure you allready know what the movies are about.

With this boxed set you really do get your moneys worth. Before I bought it I was sceptical, so many bad reviews on sound and picture. But both image and audio is OK. Really, how much do you expect from a series that has been made for direct release on VHS? The quality is not something to brag about, but it is OK. At least I did not expect more from it.

You get all seven movies, and each one of them has a great making-of featurette, as well as trailer and some cast-info. In addition to the seven movies you get an 8th DVD. This disc contains 45 trailers. All Full Moon Pictures trailers. Only a few of them are out on DVD, but it is still fun to look at all the silly, but cool, movies they make.

So all in all, you do get your moneys worth, and it really is a great oppertunety to own all the movies with some added extras. If you are a fan, then you need this box. If you are new to the series, then you should look into what the movies are like. Maybe rent one on VHS, I am pretty sure you will be hooked. Soon after you will be starting to collect Puppet Master action figures and you will be broke! :-)

What does it have to do with the Puppets?
There were hardly no puppets just about a stupid gang and their stupid friends. I rented this to see puppets and didnt get any. it had no curse and it waz boring. i would have given 5 starz, but it wasnt good enough

Poor entry still managed to charm me.
I agree with the review from FANGORIA magazine...Curse of the Puppet Master is nothing but a remake of the man-turned-into-a-snake B-movie classic Ssssss, starring Strother (Cool Hand Luke) Martin and Dirk (Battlestar Galactica) Benedict. The special effects director is even seen goofing off with the original snakeman from that camp classic in the Video Zone segment, so they are proud of their lack of imagination!

"Story" theft aside, I found this entry a silly enough guilty pleasure. Anyone else notice that the skies are pretty clear and blue during the day, but there sure is a heck of a lot of lightning, but no rain, at night. Sadly the effects are really, really bad. The puppets are just dangled on a stick or something, or held by someone under the camera frame and kind of wobbled back and forth to look like they are walking or running or whatever. Blargh!

But I still found myself enjoying it all. That just proves that I am insane.