Retro Puppet Master
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| Directed by | David DeCoteau |
| Produced by |
Charles Band Kirk Edward Hansen Vlad Paunescu Dana Scanlan Mona C. Vasiloiu |
| Written by | Charles Band Benjamin Carr David Schmoeller |
| Starring |
Greg Sestero Brigitta Dau Jack Donner Stephen Blackehart and Guy Rolfe |
| Music by | John Massari |
| Cinematography | Viorel Sergovici |
| Edited by | Don Adams |
| Distributed by | The Kushner-Locke Company Full Moon Pictures |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Retro Puppet Master (also known as Retro Puppetmaster) is a 1999 direct-to-video horror film written by Charles Band, Benjamin Carr and David Schmoeller, and directed by David DeCoteau. It is the seventh film in the Puppet Master franchise, a prequel to 1991's Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge, and stars Greg Sestero as a young Andre’ Toulon, Jack Donner as an Egyptian responsible for teaching Toulon how to animate his puppets, and Stephen Blackehart, Robert Radoveanu and Vitalie Bantas as demons who pursue Toulon for his magic. While Retro Puppet Master serves to explain how Toulon began practicing the spell which animates his puppets, it ignores what was originally established in Puppet Master II as exactly how he learned the spell of animation. The film was also Guy Rolfe's final appearance as Andre Toulon, save for flashback footage in Puppet Master: The Legacy.
The film begins in 1944, Switzerland, taking place after the events of Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge. Toulon and his little friends are still on the run, and decide to hide in the Kolewige, an inn 4 miles from the Swiss border. Blade finds the wooden head of an old puppet named Cyclops in their trunk, and when Toulon sees it, he then tells his puppets the adventures with the woman he loves, and his retro puppets, starting in Cairo, Egypt, in 1902.
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