Review of Puppet Master 4 (1993) by Brendan O — 24 Oct 2010

While I thought the addition of the Totem creatures (who later get their own spinoff) was pretty cool and the look of Sutekh was awesome even if it probably should have been more man than puppet to give it better articulation, this installment of the Puppet Master series should probably be considered the point where it started to go downhill. The introduction of Decapitron was pretty cool. He is an awesome looking puppet but the poster art shows Torch and I don't remember ever seeing him in the film. It does however have Tunneler who I thought was killed in part 2. I guess they put him back together or something cause he's front and center in this film.

The battles between the Totems and the puppets were fun but for the most part I couldn't understand why the humans had a hard time dealing with them while the puppets had little to no problem. And why wasn't Six Shooter unloading on these things? It didn't see to take much to kill any of the Totems and yet, Six Shooter didn't do much other than laugh the entire film. In part 3, he was all badass takin people out left and right.

This is classic low budget Charles Band fare and everything that might seem obviously wrong or out of place is standard in these types of film. Considering how bad the series ends up, be happy this film has a lot of good to go with the bad.

PS those the design for the Totems is awesome!!!