Puppet Master 2
Somehow, some way, we find those stupid
puppets in a graveyard digging up Toulon's rotting corpse. They
throw some magi-potion on the former home of Mr. Toulons' soul, and
he's back on his feet. We've got ourselves a sequel!
Like most movies of this fare, I've had
a theory that they really exist only to (A) make money, and (B),
introduce some new characters from the F/X department. As an example,
we have 3 new pups named Torch, Mephisto, and Djinn. Mephisto and
Djinn are only used in a flashback, but Torch is for real. And he's a real prick. This works in the same vain
that the Hellraiser movies would introduce new Cenobites (albeit only
for a few movies), or Kruger found new ways to off his victims in the
dream world.
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| Evil Little Prick. Also, his Nazi helmet looks like a dick. |
As for the rest of the story, Tulon's
re-animated corpse thinks that his late wife has been re-incarnated
and spends the rest of the movie sending his bastard puppets out to
murder the fuck out of anyone that breaths in her direction...or or
anyone that breaths at all! And murder they do, with stabbing,
beating, and the new favorite, BURNING. The cast looks mostly like a
group of future victims of Jason Vorhees, and you start to wish he'd
make an appearance. So Toulon commences to put himself into a new
body and tries to make his 'wife' do the same. Here's the fucked up
part is...this REALLY pissed off the puppets and they turn on him, brutally hacking him to pieces. I guess they don't mind murdering, but if
they feel they've been used, then look the hell out. And the final
scene? While the puppets were killing Toulon, they steal the
magi-potion and later use it on another copse (that they created, I
might add). And right before the credits, the cliff-hanger hook,
she's seen driving down the road in a VW mini-bus, puppets in tow,
looking just like one of them. I can't explain it very well and you
must see it to believe it (sorry, couldn't find on youtube). It's one
of the creepiest scenes I've seen in quite some time <shudder>
Saturday: No 'Zilla this year, but
here's his retarded distant cousin....
I never understood why the puppets were loyal to Toulon in the first place (or how new puppets could be made while he was dead). Weren't they really marionettes inhabited by the cursed souls of people Toulon had offed, anyway?
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