[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.
