Puppet Master – The Legacy

Big Sky Video

Beyond Home Ent.

R4 DVD

If you were a fan of the Puppet master series this DVD will probably disappoint you. It has little that is new and relies a lot on clips from the seven earlier Puppet Master films. If you have only recently come across the series it will give you a condensed background to the films and may well inspire you to look at the other titles.

Andre Toulon was a puppeteer whose gruesome puppets could come to life and kill people. Each puppet had its own trademark way of inflicting painful death on its enemy. During World War II Toulon adopted a young Jewish boy, Eric Weiss, who learnt the trade but not the secret of giving the puppets life. Toulon died and Weiss eventually inherited the puppets after they passed through the hands of a number of owners. Each tried to discover the secret, each failed or died.

Weiss has also spent much of his life searching for Toulon’s animation process. Now he is being hunted for the secret. An “agent” has him at gunpoint in his room and is demanding Toulon’s formula. In a series of flashbacks we see what the puppets are capable of and we are given hints of what the process might be. It appears that the puppets are more than just animated bits of wood. The agent might be in for a surprise, too, when the puppets come to the defence of their master.

In spite of the budget look with all its retro clips I quite enjoyed the film and I will now look for the others. Legacy doesn’t give away enough to spoil them for me, and I look forward to seeing more of the homicidal little toys. 

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