Review of Puppet Master II (1990) by Allan C — 16 Aug 2016

Whether it's "Attack of the Puppet People" or "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (or Chucky for that matter), there's something that grabs my attention when it comes to little things versus big things.

In this sequel to the surprisingly successful Charles Band direct-to-video original film, the puppets return to hunt down paranormal researchers for their master, Andre Toulon. There are no actors in this film I'd ever heard of before, except for John Carpenter regular character actor bit player, George "Buck" Flower.

Producer Band's brother, the excellent Richard Band, provides the film with a solid score. I've always enjoyed scores by Richard Band and always wondered why he never got a shot at scoring a major film, but maybe that's because he was kept plenty busy scoring his brother's low budget genre films.

This film isn't anything brilliant and is certainly hampered by it's budget, but it is nice to seep in-camera special effects and no CGI. Not really a smart or necessarily clever film, but is it certainly entertaining.