Having done recaps of franchises like Hellraiser, Children of the Corn, and Puppet Master, I’m moving on to a new address: 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville.

I’ve only seen the Ryan Reynolds shirtless version, and that was… 2006? I think I remember liking it, but I also know this franchise has a bad reputation. Grady Hendrix talked about it on his ( Read more... )

Team, we did it. Sixteen Puppet Master movies, and we have reached the final chapter in this franchise with some good ideas (semi-sentient puppets that can be directed to fight Nazis or kill psychics, depending on their master; a Barbie doll who shoots bullets out of her boobs; Greg Sestero) generally hobbled by wide swaths of empty plot and a ( Read more... )

Okay, time for the fifteenth of sixteen Puppet Master movies. Most of them have been pretty dull, but the last reboot one was bonkers and fun, and this one is only seventy minutes, so how bad can it be?

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This came out the same year as that worthless clip show I recapped last week, and I am still bitter, but it's the fourteenth of sixteen movies and I am not giving up this close to the finish. Plus, this was a reboot produced by Fangoria and is rumored to have a lot more money behind it, so whether it has Barbie and boobie-guns or not, it should at ( Read more... )

This going to be a tough one. I know I tried to watch it a few years ago and failed. It’s only 62 minutes. How bad can it be ( Read more... )

Well, that last one was a letdown, but this finishes the Axis trilogy, and then we only have four movies left in this franchise! And to its credit, the last movie added Bombshell, a Barbie who shoots bullets out of her boobies, and if she’s in, I’m in.

( Who am I kidding? I am a completionist, I’m in. )

Umm, the last movie was better than expected. But I expected the first part of a trilogy in the back half of a sixteen-volume low-budget horror franchise about arbitrary murder puppets, so keeping the set lit the whole time beat my expectations. Let’s see what the middle chapter has in store!

( Should we have hope? )

Well, this hasn’t been a great series, but it’s had fun moments, and the last movie was actually good, so I am ready to start this next one, which I think is the beginning of a three-part arc. Milestone: I watched the clip-show movie that’s about three posts in our future, but this is the first Puppet Master movie I haven’t seen since beginning ( Read more... )

I have learned that there are sixteen of these movies. I had thought maybe twelve. But then I remembered the next one is this crossover movie starring Corey Feldman as a daffy mad scientist, and even though I have never seen a Demonic Toys movie and don’t want to, I remember this one being pretty good.

( Please hold up… )

Okay, team, part seven was not as bad as I’d remembered, and I actually finished it this time, so maybe this next chapter will work. But I think it’s the one that’s just clips of the other movies. Not the one that Brockton McKinney and Jason Strutz did the framing sequence for, that one had at least those guys going for it. I think this one is just ( Read more... )