curse of the puppet master be set in a small american town where the ever so slightly dim robert tank winsley ( josh green ) work a a lowly gas station attendant for $ 30 a week and that be until curio collector and owner of a museum of oddity dr. magrew ( george peck ) and his lovely young daughter jane ( emily harrison ) stop for gas . magrew notice that robert be an extremely skilled carver with an exceptional imagination and offer him $ 35 a week to work for him and with the $ 5 a week pay rise too much to turn down robert accepts . dr. magrew show robert various live puppet make by puppeteer andre toulon that he bring in an auction some year previous and ask robert to carve the perfect puppet which magrew hope to inject with life and recreate toulon success . curse of the puppet master be the fifth sequel to the rather splendid killer puppet flick puppetmaster ( 1989 ) and apparently have the working title puppet master 6 represent the curse but by this stage it be probably a wise decision to stop number them and thus try to fool a few unsuspecting buyer . the first three puppet master film be really good and i think they be all great although puppet master 4 ( 1993 ) and puppet master 5 represent the final chapter ( 1994 ) be pretty bad apart from some impressive stop motion animation effect and the nicely atmospheric bogeda bay inn setting which be both absent here from curse of the puppet master a the ambition of the filmmaker and the budget get increasingly low with each new entry into the franchise . direct by david decoteau under the name victoria sloan one of his many pseudonym he have actually direct puppet master iii represent toulon revenge ( 1991 ) but there no repeat of his early magic and curse of the puppet master be pretty dire stuff and even at a paltry 75 odd minute in length the script feel pad and uneventful . there no continuity to the early film at all and there no mention of the green life give serum and curse of the puppet master change the whole central concept to animate the puppet with a human being soul which be transfer into the puppet thus give it life instead of the serum from the previous film . to be honest it a lame story which be suppose to unfold a some sort of mystery but it pretty predictable and the single bad aspect of curse of the puppet master be that it relegate the killer puppet to no more than bit part who do virtually nothing the entire film . there no explanation of why the puppet obey magrew or why they suddenly turn on him at the end and like the previous two film they be nowhere evil enough . another thing be while magrew make robert carve a puppet out of wood the puppet magrew us at the end be actually make out of metal be some awful look tank like creation with a couple laser gun for arm . the end be awful too and be one of those occasion where the film just literally stops dead and your left thinking be that it . or what happen . or wouldid my dvd player just skip a chapter . the puppet special effect be the bad of the series so far too and there a few second of stop motion by the vast majority of the effect work be simple poorly operate rod puppet which look still and have very limited movement . the opening credit have a montage of special effect shot from the previous five film and they beat anything else see in this . for some reason the puppet torch be ditch even though he appear in puppet master 5 while leech woman make a reappearance for the first time in the series after have be burn in puppet master ii ( 1991 ) . the film be gory than either part 4 o5 although two bloody murder do not make this particularly good and there some slashing and bloody cut and tunneller stick his drill into some guy groin and his wedding tackle . the whole film and production just look cheap than the previous entry and the moody setting and light have all but go and there a bland visually flat and dull look to it . with a supposed budget of about $ 250 and 000 the budget be get low and low and it show frankly . apparently shoot at canoga park in los angeles . the acting be forgettable from no one i have ever hear of before . curse of the puppet master be bad than the five previous puppet master film and to be honest they should have stop make them after puppet master iii represent toulon revenge while the series be on a high . the only puppet master film i have leave to watch in the series now be retro puppet master ( 1999 ) which i can not say i be particularly look forward too .