Product Description

Studio: Wizard Entertainment Inc Release Date: 04/15/2008 Run time: 86 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60064 in DVD
• Brand: Full Moon Features
• Published on: 2005
• Released on: 2008-04-15
• Rating: Unrated
• Format: NTSC
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 86 minutes

Features

• Optional Spanish Subtitles

Customer Reviews

Der Puppet Master!
You know by the time you reach a Part 3 of a series, you'd better do something interesting with your concept to keep the movies from going down the tubes. Thankfully Puppet Master 3 does that. It's a prequel more or less and takes place in Germany during WWII. When the Nazis catch wind of Andre Toulon's anti-Hitler puppet show, they come-a knockin', but soon take a bigger interest in his puppets. Ya see, the Nazis are hard at work at trying to reanimate dead soldiers to give them the winning edge on the battlefield. Those wacky Nazi doctors are working on a way to do this and rejoice when they see Toulon's puppets. Toulon's wife is killed by the Nazis during the attempt to arrest him. Now Toulon is in full Bronson mode, so he gathers his puppets and wages war on the Nazis!! Fun stuff.
In this movie, the character of Andre Toulon is quite a bit different from the evil mad scientist we saw in Part 2. He's a more sympathetic and likable character. He's not interested in using his puppets for violence, but rather only to entertain children. The puppets themselves are more like good guys now(we find out they are all possessed by the souls of Toulon's friends who had been killed by Nazis), and seem to be creatures with a conscience rather than total killing machines. The familiar group of puppets are here including a new one in the form of a six armed gunslinger names Six-Shooter. The trademark Blade puppet is constructed in this film and is based on the appearance of Krauss, the evil Nazi who's pursuing Toulon. Toulon turns his dead wife, Ilsa, into the famous Leech Woman puppet.
Being set in 1941 Germany(even though Toulon commits suicide in 1939 in the first film) really helps give this movie an edge. It's easy to see the puppets and Toulon more as heroes now when their up against people like the Nazis. Though part of me really likes the evil Toulon and puppets from the first and second movies. Plus it now offers more of an explanation for the first scene in the original Puppet Master when some shady looking Germans track Toulon to his hotel.
Lots of cool cult actors are cast here as well. Toulon is played by Guy Rolfe, who we all remember from the William Castle classic as Mr. Sardonicus. His wife is played by Sarah Douglas, who is in a buttload of B movies, but will always be remembered as the evil Ursa from Superman 2. The evil Nazi Krauss is played by all purpose bad guy, Richard Lynch. Rolfe does make a good Toulon and Lynch is always reliable as a slimy, mean looking SOB.
Another good entry in this series. Unfortunately it wouldn't get this good again coz the series started to slip a bit after this.