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Undescribable Perfection

Let's be realistic.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This a great movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Puppet master is scarier. Puppet master 2 is also scarier. Puppet master III is also scarier. Puppet master 4 is also scarier. Puppet master 5 is also scarier. But just the same 3.9 is underrating it. This a great movie. It is not a 3.9. It is a 9. This movie scarier then the Shinning and that is not easy to do. This one of the scariest movies from the 90's. See this movie. It is a great movie. I do not know why people do not like it. It is a great horror film. See it. It will scary you.

It's an absolute shame, I tell you! Full Moon had things going so well for Puppet Master; Puppet Master 5, I thought, was a satisfying B-budget film with loads of fun to offer. Then, Full Moon's contract with Paramount ended, and the studio became independent. This, I believe, is to blame for the tragedy that is Curse of the Puppet Master.It has been said that a good thriller is like a roller coaster; you're taken on a ride that excites you, has several surprises up its sleeve, and doesn't slow until it stops. I would use a different comparison with #6: "Curse" is like the first 30 seconds of a roller coaster; it climbs and climbs up to the top, then plummets to disaster terrifyingly quickly.This film saddens me, because it could have been the best in the series. All of the actors are good in their roles, and a visible amount of effort was put into the script-work. For the first 50 minutes of this 80-minute-long movie, you think that this film is going to be a step up for Full Moon. Then, with the first murder in the picture, you see the tragedy as it strikes. This is because, terribly enough,the worst element of this puppets' escapade is the puppets themselves!I don't know what Full Moon was thinking; for the first 50 minutes of the film, the puppets are mostly stock footage from previous films. Lazy, to be sure, but it soon becomes clear that this is better than the alternative; when we are forced to see new footage of the puppets, we are shown renditions that look like Barbie dolls being worked by hand. The walking sequences, which are supposed to involve shoulder movement and something betraying life, are the worst: no effort was put into making our puppets look alive. What's worse, there are actual technical lapses in which the rods by which the puppets are (barely) moved are not just visible, but take center stage! Who was responsible for this rape of our once-beloved puppets?!I won't complain anymore, at least not in front of you. It just saddens me how far the puppets manage to sink their own movie here, just by being there. If they had been better made, this could have been the best entry in the Puppet Master franchise. But they're not, and because of it, this is perhaps the worst film yet in the series. Cursed indeed.

Watching the movie we can all tell it's recycled, that's the most I will say of that, so now I'll start.The first five movies had continuity, even if the third was a prequel, the first five movies all made sense in the end. Andre Toulon fled Berlin during WWII and found himself at Bodega Bay Inn where he has hidden the puppets and that's where they have been even when they got a new puppet master, Rick Myers.The movies showed little to no flaws in story (other than six-shooter not existing for one & two) which is confusing as to where this movie takes place. Leech Lady is "featured" in this film (playing no role what-so-ever) which would place it between one and two. Now this is my question, how did the puppets get to, wherever this takes place, back to Bodega Bay?The story was rather predictable from watching the first two scenes (other than the love story, that wasn't necessary) but they could have thrown in some more deaths, there was only four which they squeezed in the last 30 minutes.Director: David DeCoteau. Actors: Good looking muscular boys (not men) and one female. Tank was shown in his skivvies three times through the movie and one other actor was gonna bust-a-nut while working out. They probably spent all their animation of the puppets having Tank pillow fight with the puppets. Later editing they must have taken a vote to burn the footage and pledge never to speak what they saw. Distraught, David DeCoteau slapped a fake director name wanting his puppet pillow fight.Six-shooter lasso was cool, I added a fourth star just for that.

From director David Decoteau (under an alias for some reason in the credits) comes the sixth movie in the "Puppet Master" franchise- "Curse of the Puppet Master." And to me, this is the first film in the series that was an all-in-all bad movie. Sure the previous five movies weren't high art, but they had a lot going for them. The first two films were fun little creepy horror movies that were easily accessible and had some nifty special effects. The third movie (also directed by Decoteau) was actually a decent revenge tale telling the origins of the story in Nazi Germany and had a lot of cool (albeit low budget) moments. And the fourth and fifth films, which were shot back-to-back and were essentially one movie split in half, were silly but a lot of fun and were the first movies to turn the puppets into "heroes", and actually explain more of the magic behind it all.The sixth film tries very hard to be unique, at times feeling like an ode to classic Universal monster movies like "Frankenstein", but it just can't quite pull itself together. It lacks back-story, is extremely rushed and feels a lot cheaper than the previous movies.The evil Dr. Magrew (George Peck in a delightfully hammy performance) has somehow taken possession of Andre Toulon's magical puppets, and uses them in his "House of Marvels" tourist attraction. His daughter Jane (Emily Harrison) has returned home to visit, and seems worried that his past assistant has gone missing. They soon meet socially awkward Robert "Tank" (Josh Green), a kind-hearted but meek young man whom is a talented sculptor, but is bullied by others. Magrew hired Robert to help sculpt him a new puppet, and a friendship between the two grows, as does a romance with Jane.However, when a bully from Robert's past threatens Jane, the puppets must once again resume their deadly deeds, and Magrew's devious secret plans are revealed shortly after... plans that may spell doom for the innocent Robert...The problems with the film begin from the opening credits, which made me realize this film was going to be padded beyond belief with re-used footage from the previous films. The credits seem to stretch on forever, and it's simply a montage of poorly edited snippets from previous films. And this film is very bad at hiding the fact that most of the puppet footage is re-used. You will recognize shots from the previous movies constantly, and its very distracting.This film also has a ton of continuity problems from the cheap budget- you can tell the didn't have time to shoot all of the footage they needed. (Case in point is one hilarious scene where the puppet Pinhead is injured, and while he is being fixed, they show a shot where you can clearly see him in a cage, put back together, before cutting back to him being fixed again. It was atrociously bad editing.)The biggest problem, though, is the lack of explanation of the story- the film makes no effort to connect itself to prior entries with no explanation of what happened to characters from the previous films. Also, the film seems to make up the rules as it goes along, and it's very messy- the story simply doesn't make sense, and without spoiling anything, the final 20 minutes are a poorly edited pile of shots with almost no coherence or logic. The story needed a lot more work than the screenwriters gave it.This is the first truly awful movie in the series. While a few of the entries after this one (particularly the more light-hearted and fun "Retro Puppet Master") were actually decent, starting from this movie onward, the series fell in a big, bad way. This gets a pretty-bad 3 out of 10.