A group of gifted
psychics led by a man named Alex
Whittaker (Paul LeMat) investigates a
closed down hotel mansion on the
Califronia coast as a resident there whom
was a brilliant puppeteer named Andree
Toulon (William Hickey) took his own life
as a group of thugs tried to capture him
and his live action puppets.
An evil man named Neil Gallagher (Jimmie
F. Scaggs) discovered the secrets of
Andree's puppets and then apparently took
his own life as his body is in a coffin
at the mansion awaiting a funeral event.
Alex continues to have deadly dreams that
Neil is still alive and has something
deadly for him.
Suddenly the puppets do come to life in
the mansion and kills his psychics one by
one as they all have different deadly
weapons created in them as they are
programmed to guard the deadly secrets of
the puppet master.
Probably Full
Moon's most successful horror
flick they ever made and can see why as
it looked very clever with little
puppet's killing people residing at a
mansion although some of them look so
cute they're very deadly. I got a laugh
out of the leech woman with her head
popping up and then spitting out her
deadly leeches on the victims.
Some good special effects used in the
film which is another good pointer as
well as a nice touch with an evil person
making these good puppets turn bad in
which the plot is very impressive.
This film should please all you horror
fans whom enjoy low budget films with a
good plot and cult appeal too.
The acting is in
good shape by most of the cast members.
You could tell that the two main one's
named Paul Le Mat and Robin
Frates were going to be the
survivors throughout the story with their
innocent characters proving themselves to
be the most descent psychics out of all
the rest and did a perfect job at
portraying those characters.
The one who really stands out the most is
actress Irene Miracle as a
argumentive nasty bitch in the movie as
you think to yourself she is gonna get it
from those evil puppets for her
nastiness. She delivers her speech very
clearly.
Jimmie
F. Scaggs was perfect as an evil
villain and believeably powerful too with
his violen ce involved in the film. Two
thumbs up.
Of course we have to have a bimbo in this
film and that is played by Kathryn
O'Reilly as she lacked a bit by not
making her character believeable or
dynamic in her role but again she never
pursued a successful career.
A woman in an
elevator is nearly raped during a
flashback scene and her right breast is
revealed.
Bimbo actress Kathryn O'Reilly
briefly reveals her breasts while taking
a bubblebath.
Toulon shoots
himself in the head and blood sprays out
from behind him.
During a dream sequence Alex is bloodily
attacked by deadly looking leeches.
Another psychic is bloodily attacked by
leeches caused by the puppet named Ms.
Leech.
A group of corpses which were the bodies
of the psychics are siting in chairs at a
table as the results of their
slaughterings by the puppets are revealed
including their jaws bloodily torn out
etc.
The evil Gallagher has his neck and legs
drilled by the puppet Tuneller while the
lead puppet named Blade cuts off his
fingers and does other gruseome things to
him.
David Schmoeller
does a superb job with his work on this
film and shows a great opening on the
faces of each puppet.
Then of course he directs William
Hickey well when he creates of his
his latest puppets shows good camera
shots on him while doing so.
There's a nice scene where he directs Mews Small
placing down a firepoker while getting a
fireplace going was well done as it
leaves you an impression that one of the
puppets are going to pick it up and use
it as a murder weapon on her.
He also directs many funny
moments like when the lead puppet named
Blade is pulling a stool to look at a
peephole in a door of a room and then
while Matt
Roe's character is lyin on the bed
tied up with a blindfold after
fornicating with his now dead girlfriend
suddenly the puppet Ms Leech pops up
making out that she will seduce him and
he thinks it's his girfriend doing this.
However, the scenes where Kathryn
O'Reilly is having erotic moments is
not at all well directed and looks phony
but that's due to a poor actress.
He directed a fight scene between Jimmie
F. Scaggs and Paul LeMat
perfectly as it looked very real and you
think to yourself that it's a fight to
the death.
Richard Band is
marvellous, original and very influential
with his music for this.
The theme song for the opening and
closing credits is terrific with a waltzy
sound to it and is played through certain
scenes of the film and was used in most
of the sequels too.
Dana
Hadley: Your husband was a despicable
greedy bastard.
Frank
Forrester: Just a little bit of sauce
and Dana can become quite the cynic.
Dana Hadley: I am not a cynic,
Frank! I like to think of myself as a
nasty bitch.
Dana
Hadley: You are in great danger - do
not go near the fireplace.
Neil
Gallagher: I'm tired of experimenting
with silly puppets.
Neil
Gallagher: I'm the master, and you're
the puppet!
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