Review of Retro Puppet Master (1999) by Andy C — 28 Apr 2010

After the last films completely off at a tangent story which seemed in no way connected to it's preprocessors this instalment brings us back into alignment with our original friend the puppet master in a cabin busily escaping Nazi Germany after the events detailed in the 3rd movie. An old puppet named Cyclops falls out of the masters luggage and curious to learn of the past his puppet pals gather round to hear the tale of the first Puppets our jolly friend ever brought to life.

It's flashback time from here on in as we learn of the man who stole the secret of life from that evil power rangers villain wannabe Sutekh and how he passed it on to the puppet master.

The enemies in this film take on the form of three mummies who for the sake of not looking out of place just dress up as Hudson Hawk and walk slowly...They have a range of powers using one (things go a bit hazy and wobbly, camera effect) They can choose what they want this power to do by saying the desired verb as the effect begins (negating the need for more than one effect.) Of course apart from the one time they use "Sleep" its always "Die".

Luckily the puppet masters puppet show performing friends are only too happy to be brought back to life as cheaper wooden variants of the regular puppet cast having been bloodlessly murdered by this wobbling effect, allowing them to bloodlessly kill their mummy murderers (their blood is dust now.).

All in all not the most exciting of the series but if you have any 5 year old children bugging you to let you watch some horror films with you then this is the prefect choice.