Puppet Master II

Movie
German title	Puppet Master II
Original title	Puppet Master II
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Dave Allen
script	David Pabian
production	Charles Band
music	Richard Band
camera	Thomas F. Denove
cut	Bert Glatstein Peter Teschner
occupation
Steve Welles - Andre Toulon, Eriquee Chaneé Elizabeth Maclellan - Carolyn Bramwell, Elsa Toulon Michael Todd - Toulon as a doll Julianne Mazziotti - Camille / Elsa as a doll Collin Bernsen - Michael Kenney Gregory Webb - Patrick Bramwell Charlie Spradling - Wanda Jeff Weston - Lance Nita Talbot - Camille Kenney Tell everyone - Martha George Buck Flower - Mathew Sean B. Ryan - Billy Ivan J. Rado - Cairo Merchant Taryn Band - Cairo Child Alex Band - Cairo Child Dolls in this part: Blade Pinhead Leech woman Jester Tunneler Torch
chronology
←  Predecessor Puppet Master Successor  → Puppetmaster 3

Puppet Master II is an American horror film of director Dave Allen and the " Full Moon Entertainment " founder and producer Charles Band from 1990. It is the continuation of Puppet Master from the year 1989. The film was directly for produced the video market .

action

Andre Toulon had made some dolls in 1939, which he brought to life with an elixir. All of these dolls have special abilities and skills. In order to remove them from the influence of the National Socialists, he hid them and then committed suicide. In 1990 the grave of André Toulon is uncovered by his dolls Pinhead, Tunneler, Leech Woman, Blade and Jester. Then his skeleton is given the elixir and comes to life. Because the Elixir only works for 50 years and the time of the dolls is running out slowly. They lack an important ingredient for the Elixir: the human brain.

A few months later, a team of parapsychologists , led by Carolyn Bramwell, gathers at a hotel to solve the strange murder of Megan Gallagher. Alex Whitaker, the only survivor of the first part, is mistaken for her killer and is now in an asylum, where he suffers from mysterious seizures and also makes dire predictions.

Camille Kennedy, one of the parapsychologists and Michael's mother, discovers two of the dolls. When nobody believes her, she decides to go home. But the dolls overwhelm and abduct them. The kidnapping does not go unnoticed. When Tunneler attacks and kills one of the parapsychologists, another succeeds in killing him. During the subsequent examination, they find out that the dolls are not controlled, but are driven by a chemical.

The next day Andre Toulon comes to the hotel and pretends to be Eriquee Chaneé, the owner of the hotel. In fact, he sees in Carolyn the reincarnation of his late wife Elsa and tries to transform her soul into a doll. He too is looking for a new body. So begins a life-and-death struggle between the remaining parapsychologists and the dolls. In the end all people are dead. But when Andre wants to transform his soul and that of Carolyn into mannequins, the dolls notice that their creator only has evil plans and that they have been exploited. They eventually turn against Andre and kill him.

Then they bring Camille to life, who takes them to a home for neglected and crazy teenagers. There their souls should go into the children's bodies.

Publications

On February 7, 1990, the film came on the US video market as a VHS . Several versions were released on VHS in Germany, with the FSK-18 version shortened by 22.5 seconds, while the FSK-16 version was four and a half minutes missing. The FSK-18 version was nevertheless indexed by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors in 1991. The film was unindexed in September 2016. Unabridged versions appeared again and again in the 2000s, the first from the uncut label X-Rated, further uncut versions were released via '84 Entertainment and CMV Laservision, among others. After a re-examination by the FSK in May 2020, the unabridged version was given an age rating of 18 years and over.

criticism

The lexicon of international films criticized that the film was on the whole a "disappointing sequel film" that was "more bloody and lacking in ideas" than its predecessor.

Web links

• Puppet Master II in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Puppetmaster II - The Return. Schnittberichte.com, accessed on August 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ BAnz AT 09/30/2016 B6
3. ^ Puppet Master II in the online film database
4. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7514
5. ^ Puppet Master II. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed August 13, 2015 .