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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: The Girl Most Likely To… (1973)
The pitch: She-Devil crossed with The Abominable Dr. Phibes, as filtered through the mind of the recently departed Joan Rivers. Relatively long before she would guest host The Tonight Show and...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies – Puppet Master II (1991)
So here’s the plot of Puppet Master II in a nutshell: a group converges upon the Bodega Bay Inn and are picked off one by one by killer puppets at the behest of a human villain, but the puppets...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)
I will at least admit that this film has the best cover of the series. It’s creepy, it’s unexpected, and it’s actually relevant to what happens in the movie! The film itself…well, it has a rep for...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Retro Puppet Master (1999)
After my write-up about Curse of the Puppet Master, which was supposed to be the beginning of the series’ descent into awfulness but instead I found it to be perfectly okay, I thought the series had...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies – Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
So you know how sitcoms from the ’80s and ’90s would sometimes have one or two clipshow episodes, and no one ever liked those episodes even when they bothered to have a few scenes of new material?...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys (2004)
Honestly, when I read that Charles Band himself declared that Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys isn’t canon I assumed he was just being peevish. After all, this installment was just licensed out from Full...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Puppet Master 4 (1993)
According to the (brief) research I’ve done on the series, 4 and 5, where the series breaks free from the tyranny of Roman numerals, are considered by some to be the pinnacle of the series. It’s a...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return...
Oops, looks like I picked up the wrong long-running horror franchise! Well, okay, honestly I just need to take a break from the Puppet Master franchise, especially because we’re about to enter the Dark...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Puppet Master: Axis of Evil (2010)
We have hit the nadir, everyone. The worst offense of Puppet Master: Axis of Evil isn’t really that it’s very bad, but that it’s very generically bad. Full Moon’s output the past decade or so has...
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Trash Culture Goes to the Movies: Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012)
It’s been a long, tough road, full of disappointments that would have broken a lesser person, but at last we come to the final mile, Puppet Master X: Axis Rising. It’s entirely possible that watching...
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