An
eccentric and crazed billionaire named
Virgil Travis (Jack Maturin) who has a
head the size of a avacado has made his
latest creation on some blood thristy
killing dolls while residing in his
mansion as well as keeping a female rock
group forcing them to play on command
while he has killed people he trusted and
betrayed him sets them out to kill more
on his enemies who have wronged him
He meets up with his match on a woman
named Moira Yulin (Debra Mayer) and
finding love, both of which come in the
form of a woman who is even more evil and
twisted than he is.
There's a good shot on a character named Howard Loftus when a drill is about to plurge
in his chest as he shows good frightening
expressions but however isn't convincing
with the yelling or screaming and the
same with a woman involved here named Cindy Agami when something happens to
her.
A good scene involving a bodybuilder George Warbeck in his weightlifting room
trying to find out who's spying on him
with good shots on the dolls peeking as
well as attacking too.
There's a terrific reaction on another character Squires getting
aggressive and pointing his gun when he
enters the room and being attacked too.
We have many discussions between a married couple Moira and Harrison doing perverted
events and kink like being whipped as
well as other painful stuff. It's
cheesily done but at times amusing.
A nice shocked look on Moira after
Virgil Travis removes his mask as well as the
dolls attacking her and her lying on the
ground screaming with him looking over
her and speaking evilly towards her.
Apart from this there's nothing much more
to mention but there's an amusing moment with certain character's in a scene by performing rock music in their cell
while being forced to.
Bottom line is that Charles Band tried to make another version of Puppet
Master but he failed majorly as
this was difficult to watch cause it will
bore the hell out of you with no point to
the story at all so what's the point?
Well Full Moon Pictures probably was
hurting for money so they'd try anything
and I bet were humiliated after the
results.
The vhs box cover looks impressive and
the story may seem like something to
watch while reading it on the back but by
all means a complete torture to watch and
not the least bit scary either.
The acting is in
average taste as lead actor Jack Maturin (Virgil Travis) seemed to be so-so with his evil attitude
but he tends to get carried away alot and
lose that evil charm he's supposed to
have.
Debra Mayer (Moira Yulin) however does her job
well enough with her slick, sleazy and
evil speaking as well as trying to seem
innocent and charming too which showed
her versatality in a descent mode. She does well speaking smoothly in a scene and acting tempting towards someone to marry her.
William Paul Burns (Mr. Mascaro) had the right
looks and deep speaking as an assitant to
the evil Travis which he knew his part
inside out and had good timing with his
seriousness that it's quite comedic on
what is going on with him.
Warren Draper (Harrison Yulin) was cheesy with his
performance but yet really lived to play
a perverted type in the film making his
role realistic at the same time and a
reminds you of those morons you can't
stand that has only one thing on their
mind when it comes to women. He reacts well while getting tortured to death.
Phil Fondacero (Hylas) annoyed the hell out
of me the most with his high strung
attitude as you'd want to kill him to
shut him up.
A woman briefly takes off
her top with her breasts exposed.
A person is drilled in the
chest with tons of blood splurting out
Some bloody stabbings mainly by the dolls
The odd blood smears on corpses
An eye is stabbed
A person is tortured in wire
Richardo
Bizzetti was impressive with his
synthesizer playing along with the heavy
metal guitar riffs in certain scene's
especially the tragic moments when the
dolls attack and kill. Almost reminds me
of a scene in Carrie at
the senior prom when she unleshes her
powers in a cheesy kind of way. He also
has the odd circus type music which
almost sounds similar to the Puppet
Master flicks.
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