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This film is amazing. *SPOILERS*


....it's only an hour long.

Don't be fooled by the "71 minutes" on the back of the box; according to my DVD player, the credits start rolling at 61 minutes. That leaves ten minutes of some of the slowest moving credits I've ever seen to pad things out. A sixty minute movie. Wow. What happened?

I was disappointed. It's great to see Full Moon Video back in action. And the first twenty minutes were enjoyable, even inspiring. (How cool would it have been if the kid became -- I hate to say it -- a puppet master? Imagine this: The Samurai frees him, they make friends, one of the boys gets rough with his sister/love interest, so the kid arranges an accident. Then the power starts getting to him, and...)

And nothing. He gets tied up, and the only interesting character disappears for the next twenty minutes (or 1/3rd of the movie!).

THEN, when he finally wakes up... HE TURNS INTO A LITTLE GIRL.

Argh. So frustrating. But not as frustrating as the numerous bloody-screaming-murders that take place in a three bedroom house, completely unnoticed by the people downstairs. Allright, there was that one scene where the Hobgoblins-esque skank is dancing to music (squeak, squeak), but once the music goes off, shouldn't people, like, notice the dying and stuff?

And *where* did the love interest girl go to for ten minutes? She gets pissed at the jock while doing the dishes, wanders off in a modestly sized, doll-filled house, and shows up out of nowhere to untie the kid upstairs. Was she born with polio? Do stares face *that* much of a challenge for her?

Jesus. So, so much wrong with this picture.

Look, I realize Charles was going for something new. Puppet Master had gotten stale, so he wanted to do a posession picture. That's fine. New ideas are always good. But are unfinished ideas really better than unoriginal ones? (Besides, it all boiled down to "German looking drill head guy attacks genitalia" anyway. Not exactly a great departure.)

I've got an idea for Full Moon Video:

Stop making movies. Just stop. They're no good anymore. After this, I'm not even going to give Gingerdead Man a chance. Instead, just release feature-length Full Moon Video specials. They're the best part, anyway! Just film guys in monster makeup, blood-splattered actresses and kids pawing the special FX, all talking about some fictional movie they're never going to make. Because the FMV specials at the end have always been the best part.

In the meantime, there's always the special edition 64 minute Doll Graveyard Director's Cut to look forward to.

Blarg! http://thor.mirtna.org/

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psh...what a winer

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what a CRITIC is more like it

as a whole, actually i kinda, sorta, maybe liked it... for a low budget horror/slasher flick... the special effects with the dolls was awesome
i loved the baby doll biting that girl's hand... and that 'ooga booga' guy poking his spear into that dumbbutt's eyeball - that was too kikazz...
i just loved the gore that's all.. the acting of those kids was just so.. i dunno... annoying and unbelievable.... that boy was OK, but overall the acting was too cheeseball for me lol

but the way it turned out w/ the special effects was good... they 'buried' the dolls at the end? no they didn't they set them down into a hole and stood there staring at them... uhhhh cover 'em up with dirt, that's burying them dummies lol



"I'm a Buddhist - In case of accident, call a Lama" (The Ninth Configuration)

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I'm sorry but this movie was the worst movie and *pathetic* movie ive ever seen..even "house of 1000 corpses" is better n thats pretty sad!! Ok this movie was soooo bad it was hilarious i laughed my butt off the whole time, cause it was so fake! The acting was the worst i've ever seen too! Come on why the hell would you still stay in the house when their are dolls everywhere (the ugliest dolls too-their not even dolls) so they stay in the house so freakn stupid while their are 2 dead guys they act like its no big deal, so instead of calling like a ambulance or something they re bury the dolls OMG!!! WTF?? I'm sorry even tho this was a low budget film i couldve done better for the price of ....nothing! This was a waste of time to film! My grade: FFFFF
****oh and the movie "Dolls" is like 100 times better than this movie it doesnt even compare!!*** P.s. I sold it to Coconuts for 2 bucks

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I thought Fear of Clowns was the worst movie EVER. But this one takes the cake.
Oh, and it definately had its laughable moments. The special effects were just...LOL

"Can Gods hands fit through windows?"-Judith Barsi

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omg..............
erg...................
this just........ upsets.me...............

I love Full Moon, Puppter Master, Shreiker, just............................................................................ so many things destroyed now.........

horrible acting........
and just erg OK!
ONE THING THAT GOT TO ME!
if the boy and that girl were in his room, and his sister and her friend were in the living room, WHY DIDNT THEY JUST LEAVE THE HOUSE! OR GO IN THE ROOM WITH GUY WTF

Boom bazooka, joe.

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Gotta love the scene where everyones FINALLY ready to book ass out of that house,and the blonde bimbo doesnt want to leave her cellphone behind GOD FORBID so being the idiot she is she goes back for it and the baby doll bites her face and rips a chunk of it off. What the hell is wrong with this girl? If a bunch of killer dolls were after me the last thing on my mind would be my cellphone,this *beep* ditz got what was coming to her.

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Hah, yeah.

Man, I miss the cast of Puppet Master 1.

Middle aged. Competent. Likely able to ask, "Why would my character do that?" and come up with some better reason for a scene to take place.

In Amityville, when they went back for the dog, that worked.

Going back for the cellphone... sheesh. Does the screenwriter work for Verizion or something?

Blarg! I'm in no way associated with Verizion. http://thor.mirtna.org/

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My friend and I were entertained by this film in a strange, twisted kind of way - we laughed until a little bit of wee came away and things hurt, even though I doubt this was intended to be a comedy in any way, shape, or form. It's a very good premise for a film, but the execution left a lot to be desired.

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If Full Moon just saved up their money maybe they wouldnt have to keep releasing "Low budget" movies, its common sense.

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