31 Days of Halloween 2021 Days 17-20: Capsule Review Catch-Up Part 1

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. Might throw in the odd horror related book, comic, or music review as well. I've done this the last few years here and on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded. Other times I didn't. Last year I completely failed and didn't do it at all. I'm optimistic about this year.]

 

A number of factors have conspired to keep me from being on top of my Halloween blog-a-thon. Mainly I’ve just been busy, but there’s also the fact that a lot of what I’ve watched either hasn’t been good, or even if it has it just didn’t grab me in a way that made me want to rush out and write about it. But today I find myself with a little extra time, so I’m going to cheat a bit and do short capsule reviews to get caught up. I’ll do another one of these tomorrow and Wednesday, and then hopefully be back on track through to the big day.

31 Days of Halloween 2018: 'Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich' Pulls Some Strings

31 Days of Halloween 2018: Day 2

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.] 

Because 12 PUPPET MASTER movies just wasn’t enough, the cheap and cheesy B movie franchise from Full Moon Productions has been rebooted with PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST RIECH. The puppets are still the same cool looking deadly toys, but they mythos of the series has undergone some major changes. There’s also a bigger budget this time around, some actors you might actually know, and considerably more blood and gore than one might expect.

Working from a script by S. Craig Zahler (BONE TOMAHAWK, BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99), co-directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund turn in a slick but sloppily put together film. It’s the kind of movie that seems to skip ahead at times, as if pages of the script were torn out to keep things on schedule and under budget. Which is certainly not unheard of in the world of “B” movies, so that may have been the case.