This movie was banned in Germany for 25 years, now it's unbanned so I watched it.
Probably a great double bill with Toy Story.
This movie is about a hotel filled with killer puppets. Okay, there is a bigger story around it about this group of people who all have special psychic abilities who get invited to a funeral in said hotel, the funeral of one of their psychic friends who killed himself. But most important are the puppets.
To be honest I expected this to be really bad. But it was better than I expected.
First off, you know a movie is low budget if you don't even know the "special cast members". I have no idea who William Hickey is... okay I just checked and he was the evil scientist in a Nightmare before Christmas. But yeah.
The music is good, I enjoyed it, especially one dream sequence that we get 3 times. That sequence felt like a David Lynch scene, not just from the look but also from the sound mixing and the music.
I enjoyed the scenes out of the puppets perspecitve, looked interesting and we got many shots, but not too many, it didn't feel overdone.
What stole the show where the puppets though. We have 5 different main puppets. They were all stop motion animated but it was well done. My favorite puppet is Pinhead, who has normal arms and hands, but a very small head. Also he has some of the best stunts. But all the puppets looked great and were well animated.
Also, even though most of the movie isn't that gory, in the end scene we have a great amount of gore that is well done.
Oh and the actor of the dead guy, who is in some dream sequences and ... well, lying around dead, looks so scary, I don't know what it is about him but I had a creepy feeling.
Of course it's still a cheap movie with mediocre acting and a weird script, but it's enjoyable, especially for horror fans.
I rate this movie 3 out of 5 stars and a like.
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