Greetings my remaining readers. After
this week I cannot say I blame you running for the virtual hills but
I return for Day 4 of Puppet Master Week. It would appear this time
around our fearsome figurines seems to be in the modern age and
placed away in their trunk...but for how long? What if hell itself
decided to wage war on humanity? What could possibly stave of the
denizens of Hell? This is Puppet Master 4: The Demon
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| Hook shot!!! Yes, bad pun. |
Deep within the bowels of Hell lies a
demon known only as Sutekh (just ignore that it is also the
Egyptian god of death, war, storms and disorder) who sends a
trio of his underlings, constructs called totems to dispatch any and
everyone that knows the the secret of animation (So Disney, WB
and 20th Century Fox are
scared out of their minds), including of course our fellow
Andre Toulon (Guy Rolfe of The Case of Marcel Duchamp, The
Bride, Dolls, William Tell, Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge and
Retro Puppet Master) and his puppets. Caretaker of the
hotel Bodega Bay Inn, Rick Meyers (Gordon Currie of 21 Jump
Street, Alive, Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter, Forever Knight,
Highlander: The Raven and Leap Years) should really read the
fine print on this gig, uses the basement region as a makeshift lab
into his experiments in artificial intelligence while his mentors Dr.
Piper (Stacy Randall of Trancers 4: Jack of Swords, The
Assault, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money and Shade)
and Dr. Baker (Felton Perry of Magnum Force, Robocop, Hooperman
and Dumb & Dumber) work uninhibited in their lab when they
encounter a package holding one of the strange totems that smacks
them about and for lack of better term seems to tear their souls from
their bodies.
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| Val Kilmer has really let himself go. |
Meanwhile that is happening, Rick's
buddies Cameron (Ash Adams of A Nightmare on Elm Street,
Lionheart, Puppet Master 4 and Once Fallen), Suzie (Chandra
West of Viper, Something More, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in
Arms, Forever Knight, Night Terrors and Highlander) and
Lauren (Teresa Hill of Puppet Master 4, Puppet Master 5: The
Final Chapter, Models Inc., Raging Angels, Bio-Dome and Twin Falls
Idaho) to hang out and typical get wasted when Rick tells
them of the puppets that seem almost lifelike and similar to his
A.I.works and proceeds to awaken them with the formula. Now this is
where it gets nutty. The formulas hails from Egypt from a band of
sorcerers that were loyal to Sutekh and anyone using it may anger
this ancient power. Oops.
As Rick goes through Toulon's notes he
discovers this amazing ability to create stop motion animation, that
is animate the puppets and fight alongside them as the totems have
come gunning for him. Toulon makes an appearance as a vested spirit
to aid Rick in controlling the puppets and reviving Decapitron his
darker puppet made specifically for taking out totems... mighty
convenient but hey that happens. Will the puppets be able to stop
the totems?? Could the totems win? Shouldn't we dust off, nuke the
sight from orbit and move on?
A few tidbits on the movie now. David
Allen Productions re-apprises its services for the puppets but for
some reason Torch was benched and his flamethrower became Tunneler's
new laz weapon and he must also be buck bare as his coat made its way
on Decapitron. Rushed to finish the 4th installment was
supposed to be a longer film be producers wanted the film out ASAP,
so Puppet Master 4 became 4 and 5. Similar to the latter Critters
movie, one film got sliced in twine and made into 2 movies closely
following each other. No nudity to speak of but a fair amount of
gore effects that seem well silly in some spots. Your call on this
one, readers.
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| So Hell is connected to Carnie Fun fairs??? Should have known. |
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