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After sitting through the two previous train wrecks that were Puppet Master 4 and 5, I felt that this series had really no where to go but up. Thankfully, with Curse of the Puppet Master, the storyline goes totally away from the previous 2 movies. Though apparently the plot of this film rips off the old Sci-Fi Horror movie called Sssssss. Its a about a young man named Robert a.k.a "Tank" who is hired by the "new" puppet master named Dr. Magrew to help create the perfect puppet. Dr. Magrew has been unsuccessful in re-creating Andre Toulon's ability to bring puppets to life so far , but the Dr. has a dark secret, in that he's wanting to put Robert's soul into the puppet that Robert himself is creating so that the puppet will live. Again, the plot isn't great, but its gotta be better than the storyline to Part 4 and 5. However, just like the other Puppet Master films, there are some horrible screw ups that takes place here. First off, the puppet Leech Woman returns in this one, though she was clearly destroyed in Puppet Master 2. Not even that, but Leech Woman doesn't even have a kill in the film!! In fact, most of the puppets don't do much at all. The death count isn't that high as well. The end of the film makes no sense either. Throughout the movie, Robert is working on a puppet thats made out of wood. Yet, at the adbrupt ending of the film, the puppet that Robert had been working on appears to be some futuristic mechanical gadget made of metal, not wood. The "special" effects, if one has the nerve to call them that, have to been the worst of the series, and the editing and directing is horrible. Actually, in some cases, old footage is used from previous Puppet Master films and injected into this one. And don't worry, the acting is just as bad as everything else. Take special note of the way over-acting tough guy Sheriff!! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! In a nutshell, this is horribly cheap-made film with crappy effects, bad directing, and terrible acting. To say its better than the some previous Puppet Master films in the series may be just splitting hairs, cause at this point, who really cares? But since this story, though it may have been ripped off, is slightly better than previous storylines about little demons from the underworld coming back to earth to do..well..whatever, I gotta give this film a slightly better rating than those previous sequels. As a stand alone film, its a tough watch. I wouldn't recommend sitting through it more than once, and wouldn't buy it at all, unless you need it for your Puppet Master collection.

I was really enjoying this Puppet Master until the very end. What kind of an excuse for an ending was that? As it sucks you in, has you wondering whats going to happen, it's just all of a sudden over and the credits begin to roll.

It's like they ran out of funding for the movie and didn't have any money left to shoot any more cause I cant understand why the heck anyone would just make an ending like that be over before the blink of an eye.

The rest of the film was kinda cheesy. The puppets looked pretty stupid with there only animation being there hands moving up and down like... well, I don't know, like bad puppetearing I guess, almost like they where toys with limited animation that shouldve been playing door bell kind of music as the move.

I liked the plot and the movie up until the last 5 minutes. It just ceased to go on when it was starting to pick up and needed a final scene after what they do show. And I don't get how making a wooden puppet ends up becoming an electronic tank.. i dunno, see the movie to understand what I mean, but if you never see this movie, you haven't missed out on anything special.

Rent it if your curious, otherwise don't bother.