Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys (2004)

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Load of rubbish!!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Corey Feldman stars in this film as Robert Toulon descendant of the infamous puppeteer Andre Toulon. Robert wants to cash in on the secret formula developed by Andre, by creating life-like puppet toys for children for the Christmas season.However Erica Sharpe (Vanessa Angel) head of a Toy Making Industry and Robert's former employer, also wants the secret formula. Erica is aided by the Demonic Toys in recovering the formula by any means necessary.However Robert has the help of Andre's old puppets. So the Puppets are pitted against the Demonic Toys. Who will triumph? Watch and find out.Corey Feldman and Venessa Angel put on a good performance. Danielle Keaton shines as Alex Toulon, who is always seen at Robert's side, helping him in his quest to develop the formula.The puppet effects are most disappointing. They could have at least used C.G.I. to refine the puppet animation. Also there is no war between the puppets and toys in the film, except in the ending, which is very brief. With much better effects put into this film, it would have been much better.Whose fault is this? Blame the director, script writer and special effects head-technician. These guys should rightly be given a kick in the backside.

Supreme cheese. If you were expecting a nice follow up of some sort, do not waste your time. This is like "Freddy Vs Jason" without a studio backing it. No budget to speak of, they are clearly just throwing the dolls in the air during the action sequences! Pros: Cheesy in a good way; Feldman is supremely idiotic and, well, funny (see: that ridiculous voice); the daughter can not keep from laughing during certain shots; the script was decent, if not original.Cons: They throw the dolls in the air...not so much a con, really.This is a very funny movie, I thought. Not good, not decent. Just grade-A cheese.Check it out if that is your thing.

When I saw the previews for this when it came out, I was gonna watch it. I wanted to watch it. I've never seen any of the Demonic Toys or the Puppet Master movies before this, but seeing how bad this movie was I don't even wanna see it. first off, for the low budget this movie was extremely awful. And you don't need a big budget to make a good movie. The acting was bad, the plot was rushed, and the final scene where the puppets fight the demonic toys was lame. I knew how bad this movie was gonna be when the puppets came to life and the strings were visible. I couldn't believe they hadn't noticed it.But then again I shouldn't have expected much from it because just about every sci-fi Saturday night movie premiere is lame and totally blows. Don't watch this movie thinking it's horrifying, it was laughable at how bad it was and it wasn't even meant to be that way.This movie BLOWS

Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys starts the day before Christmas Eve as the great grandnephew of alchemist Andre Toulon & toy maker Robert Toulon (Corey Feldman) discovers the secret that let his distant relative re-animate inanimate puppets, by using Toulon blood Robert brings to life four of the murderous little puppets from previous Puppet Master films including Balde, Pinhead, Six Shooter & Jester. Cut to 'Sharpe Toys, World Headquarters' where evil boss Erica Sharpe (Vanessa Angel) is spying on them, she wants the puppets for herself & orders her underlings to fetch them for her as she isn't that happy with her own set of living dolls for at the moment she is stuck with the Demonic Toys who suck. Anyway, the puppets manage to save themselves from being kidnapped & during the next few hours during the run up to Christmas Robert & his daughter Alexandra (Danielle Keaton) discover that Erica has entered into a pact with a demon named Bael (Anton Falk) to flood the entire world with Sharpe toys & to bring them to life on Christmas morning & have them kill. Everyone. In sight. Great plan eh?Directed by Ted Nicolaou Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys is a terrible film & if that wasn't enough it insults the Puppet Master series of films which I have to admit I rather liked & thought had some class about them, well to start with anyway. The script by C. Courtney Joyner is hideous, it's a travesty & an absolute mess although to be fair it certainly moves along at a decent pace. First thing to say is that the 'I want to take over the world by flooding it with Demonic Toys at Christmas' plot takes center stage for the majority of the film & even includes a demon that is the height of ridiculousness with the puppets from the Puppet Master films (I think I'm right when I say there has been 8 Puppet Master films) having virtually nothing to do & in a way the film could have easily existed without them while the demonic toys from Demonic Toys (I know this is very boring but there was only ever one stand alone Demonic Toys (1992) film) are also virtually redundant. The dialogue is awful, the character's are embarrassing & the puppets & demonic toys don't face off against each other until the final 5 minutes in a less than spectacular climax. Do you want to know how classy this film is? One of the toys uses it's farts to launch itself in the air, brilliant eh? The plot makes no discernible sense with Toulon's connection to it all very tenuous & again just feeling like a cheap way to use the puppets.Director Nicolaou will surely enrage any decent Puppet Master fan such as myself, this film sucks & will probably be the final nail in the coffin for the Puppet Master series. I can't imagine there's many Demonic Toys fans out there so that doesn't matter so much. The whole thing is very cheaply made, the make-up on that demon guy is laughable, the special effects are terrible. You know the first Puppet Master (1989) was released over 15 years ago & the special effects have actually taken a backwards step, they look worse now than back then when at least the filmmakers cared & put some effort & imagination into it, I mean I doubt they were working with massive budgets either. Gore wise there's a slit wrist & someone's eyes explode but that's it.With a supposed budget of about $2,400,000 which to me sounds like a fair whack of cash, where did it all go? This looks more like the sort of low budget under 1 million type shot on a digital camcorder that seem to be everywhere at the moment. Almost 2 and a half million, I can't believe it. The sets, special effects, production values, cinematography & just the way it's made in generally is awful. For some reason this was shot in Sofia in Bulgaria. Even for a made-for-TV film it's pretty bad. I don't quite know how to describe the acting here, Feldman mumbles his way through with dyed grey hair. Ha, ha, ha, what a sight. This has to be one of the worst leading performances ever, it's cringe worthy & he should return to the bar where the filmmakers found him & stay there. No-one else is much better.Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys is a piece of, insert your own expletive, & is not worth renting or buying or wasting any time on. It tries to get people to watch it using the Puppet Master & Demonic Toys franchise to draw the fans in, I can't see anyone getting anything out of this much less the fans, the people it's supposedly aimed at.