![]() The gore effects and kill scenes are some of the most inventive I’ve ever seen in a movie, and not only harken back to the spook-a-blast 80s movies, but to some of the crazier Italian splatter films of the 70s and 80s. The puppets move fast and are fiendish, giving them an air of evil diabolicalness. The puppet and gore effects in PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH are some of the best I’ve seen. ![]() The secret weapon of this movie is special effects coordinator and creature/puppet designer Tate Steinsiek. The movie also brought in legendary Fabio Frizzi (ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BEYOND) to score the movie. Its cast is filled with genre favorites like Barbara Crampton and Udo Kier, with an appearance by STREETS OF FIRE star Michael Pare as a cliché dropping police investigator. PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH is a horror fan’s dream movie. With all the puppets back in one location, will it be long before the murders start again? The answer, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, is no. The special event will bring together up to 63 of Toulon’s puppet creations. Taking along his comic book show owner boss, Markowitz (Nelson Franklin) and a new woman he has started to date, Ashley (Jenny Pellicer), Edgar heads to the auction site where there will be a gathering of Toulon puppet collectors. Learning that, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Toulon’s death, there will be an auction of Toulon’s puppets at a hotel in Postville, Edgar sees a way to make some quick money so he can move out of his parents’ house quicker. Looking around his long-dead brother’s bedroom, which is still decorated the way it was when he died, Edgar finds one of Toulon’s puppets in cardboard box in the back of a closet. Thirty years later, a Dallas-based comic book author/artist, Edgar (Thomas Lennon), has moved back into the family home with his parents after a painful divorce. The police trace the murders back to Toulon’s home, and Toulon is killed in a shootout with the police. Disgusted by a lesbian couple showing some public display of affection, Toulon dispatches his puppets to take care of the women, with extreme prejudice. Inventor Andre Toulon (Udo Kier) is living in Postville, freaking out the locals at the town watering hole and continuing his work on murderous Nazi puppets in his home. Craig Zahler (BONE TOMAHAWK, BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99), PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH has the perfect creative team in place to bring fans a PUPPET MASTER movie unlike any seen before. Directed by Sonny Laguna (WE ARE MONSTERS) and Tommy Wiklund (WITHER), with a script written by S. PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH has shocked and delighted festival audiences across the United States, and has now made its Canadian premier at the Fantasia Film Festival. Movies that can be described as spook-a-blasts are EVIL DEAD 2, RE-ANIMATOR, DEAD SNOW, DRAG ME TO HELL. I like to use a term coined by director Sam Raimi - spook-a-blast - to describe movies that are balls-out gore films, and have just as many fun, over-the-top ridiculous moments as they do scary moments. ![]() Sometimes, I think, we need a reminder that horror movies can be gory fun. These movies are fan and critical darlings, but lean to the darker, dramatic side of horror. Recent hit horror films like HEREDITARY, THE WITCH, IT FOLLOWS, and GET OUT have a more serious tone. But the most important reminder that came out of The Last Drive-In is that horror movies can be fun. ![]() Most of the movies shown were culled from the 1980s, and were a mix of great, entertaining, and bad movies. Shudder, the horror/thriller movie streaming service, recently broadcast a 24-hour movie marathon called The Last Drive-In, hosted by legendary MonsterVision host, Joe Bob Briggs. PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH is the 80s style horror movie that fans have been asking for, and this movie has delivered in spades. ![]()
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