Curse of the Puppet Master

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

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). Trivia factoid: director "Victoria Sloane" is one of several stage names used by David DeCoteau, who also directed Puppet Masters III and 7. Fans of the Puppet Master series will probably enjoy this sixth installment. --Geof Miller But Magrew's plans get complicated when his daughter (appealingly played by Emily Harrison) falls for the young man. To do so, he recruits a talented young woodcarver named Tank (Josh Green). The three leads are well cast, the production design shows some imagination, and the script works--until the abrupt and nonsensical ending. The puppets also seem less animated than in previous films; nevertheless, they still manage to get their whacks in. 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.