Puppet Master 3
Puppet Master 3
A Full Moon Production
Film Length : 90 minutes
Film Certificate : 18 (UK)
Produced : 1990
RRP : £DELETED
Others in the series : Puppetmaster 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
It is not often that a movie comes along that could be described as being ‘near perfect’, but Puppet Master 3 is definitely a film that needs to be in your collection. Unlike the 2 previous movies, PM 3 is set in the past in World War 2, and follows Heir Toullon, the Puppet Master and his wife. At the start, there are only a couple of puppets that you will recognise, but as the movie progresses, you get to see how some of the others are made, and this is the Puppet Master film to introduce the best of all the puppets - the laughing Six Shooter - a gunslinger with 6 arms who never seems to stop laughing, but there is no Torch, as he is yet to be made in the future (Puppet Master 2,4,5). The gore in Puppet Master 3 is quite good, as is the fantastic story. It centres around the Germans trying to ferment a ‘potion’ that would allow dead soldiers to live once more - how could you kill an army of zombies?, but all of their tests are unsuccessful, and leave the dead soldiers stumbling into walls and shooting themselves. A German soldier who is watching one of the Puppet Master’s shows notices that the puppets are stringless and have the ability to walk and think for themselves, and so the Germans, lead by the Gestapo attempt to gain Toullon’s secrets in order to use his secret to re-animate the dead soldiers, and then Toullon’s wife is shot and he makes leach woman in her image, and leads a continuing struggle against the people who killed his wife. One of my favourite scenes is where Pinhead and Tunneller are in the back of a car, and Tunneler drills through the back of a chair and straight through the German driver, splattering his guts out through the front. Another scene is at the end, where the leader of the Gestapo is hung up on hooks and ropes like a puppet - by the puppets he was trying to capture - and is finally killed by Blade - a puppet made in his image. I really can’t sum up how good the film is - the story is excellent and really draws you into the movie, and the effects are marvellous. One of the best horrors ever made. Even the IMDB gave it 8 out of 10, and they are hard to please, believe me!! Look out for Aaron Eisenberg - who plays the little boy who helps the puppets (Amityville : The Evil escapes and Nog in Star Trek : DS9), who strangely enough still looks like a young boy today.
9.5 out of 10
By Richard ‘Gift’
12 July 1998
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