Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
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| Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge | |
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 Puppet Master III DVD cover |
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| Directed by | David DeCoteau |
| Produced by | Charles Band |
| Written by | Charles Band C. Courtney Joyner David Schmoeller |
| Starring | Guy Rolfe Sarah Douglas Walter Gotell Ian Abercrombie Kristopher Logan Aron Eisenberg Matthew Faison and Richard Lynch |
| Music by | Richard Band |
| Cinematography | Adolfo Bartoli |
| Editing by | Carol Oblath |
| Distributed by | Full Moon Features |
| Release date(s) | October 17, 1991 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000 |
| Preceded by | Puppet Master II (1991) |
| Followed by | Puppet Master 4 (1993) |
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Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge is the third film in the Puppet Master series of horror films. It was released in October, 1991 by Full Moon Features. The installment is actually a prequel, revealing the origins of Andre Toulon and his living puppets. The film was rated R for violence and sensuality.
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[edit] Plot
Puppet Master III is set in Berlin, Germany during World War II, 1941. A scientist named Dr. Hess is forced by the Nazis to create a drug capable of animated objects, but can not get it right. In a building, Andre Toulon has set up a children's puppet show. The main star of the show is a western puppet with six arms and six guns named Six Shooter. In the show, Six Shooter shoots an inanimate Hitler puppet. Back stage after the show, Andre and his wife feed the formula to Six Shooter, Tunneler, Pinhead, and Jester. Outside the building, a nazi spies on them and takes pictures. The next day, Andre gives his wife a women puppet for a present (He had been trying to paint her picture for years but he could not get it right so he made a puppet version of her). Major Kraus is given the photos and wants to take Toulon in. The Nazis take Andre, Tunneler, and Pinhead. They leave the wife but when she tries to stop them she is shot by Major Kraus. In a Nazi automobile, a Nazi soldier picks up Pinhead and begins to get strangled by him. Tunneler drills into the back of the driver's seat going straight through his chest. Toulon escapes and runs back to his building to find that the stage has been burnt by the Nazis. He finds Six Shooter and jester and then leaves with them. He discovers a partially destroyed hospital and decides to set up camp in it. Toulon wants revenge, so he, Pinhead, and Jester go to the morgue to get his wife's life essence. In the morgue, Pinhead climbs up and into the window, followed by Jester. Pinhead strangles a doctor with a wire, while Jester watches. Jester runs to the door and unlocks it, and Andre comes in and gets his wife's life essence. Another doctor walks in and when he sees Toulon, he tries to call for help. Pinhead unplugs the phone cord and Jester runs up to the doctor and stabs his leg with a scalpel. Andre and the puppets then walk right out the door. In the hospital, Andre puts his wife's essence into the women puppet he made for her. She wiggles and squirms for a while Toulon put leeches, found in an old medicine drawer into her, she then sits up with a slightly different apperance. Later that night, Major Kraus's driver is fixing up a car . He puts down the hood to see Jester sitting on a tool box. Pinhead walks up and slams his leg with a wrench. When he opens his eyes he sees Pinhead standing above him with the wrench. He screams and Jester begins to spin his face laughing in joy. The driver is struck across the face by Pinhead and Jester stops spinning. Leech Woman crawls up on the driver and pukes up leeches on his face. Toulon leaves and finds an old wrecked shelter. The puppets get out and make themselves comfortable. In a lab, Dr. Hess is studying Toulon's formula. Desperate to meet Andre, he goes back to his old building. In the shelter, some friends from the puppet show find Andre and decide to live with him. The next day, at one of the Nazi general's buildings, behind a short wall, Pinhead stands guard. Andre pretends to be blind and walks up to the side of the building. He places Six Shooter down next the wall. Six shooter climbs up the wall like a spider into the window. The general walks down a hall to see Six Shooter staring at him. Six shooter pulls up his bandanna and flips out his guns. He begins to shoot the general, but the general pulls out a gun and shoots one of his arms off. Six Shooter still shoots and the general falls out the window. In the shelter, one of Andre's friends goes back to his building to look for another arm. He is caught by Dr. Hess, who treats him kindly and gets him to take him to Andre. Dr. Hess finds Andre and talks with him. The two become friends. Toulon's other friend tells Major Kraus about Andre and the Nazis come to the shelter. One Nazi enters and gets a brick thrown at him by Pinhead. Dr. Hess takes his gun and runs. A second Nazi walks in and get drilled in the ankle by Tunneler. Leech Woman is on a hanging lamp above the Nazi and regurgitates leaches on his face and in his mouth. The puppets and the Puppet Master get away and sneak into an alley. A Nazi scout runs into the alley and gets shot rapidly by Six Shooter. Dr. Hess runs to him to see if he is really dead. He thinks he is, but the Nazi grabs a knife and kills Dr. Hess. Andre decides to put Dr. Hess's life essence into his new puppet, Blade. At night, Major Kraus is sitting at his desk. He tries to make a call but his phone won't work. On his book shelf, Jester sits holding a pair of scissors. Kraus tries to throw a bowl at Jester but misses. Blade cuts his knee but when he goes down to grab Blade, Blade cuts his hand. Andre comes out from the shadows and Kraus shoots him in the shoulder. Pinhead throws an ash tray at him and then puts hooks in his hands and feet. The hooks are tied to a rope hung up over a light. Andre pulls the rope so Kraus is hung like a puppet. Andre ties the end to the Nazi flag and then burns it. Pinhead puts an axe underneath Major Kraus, and then the rope snaps, causing him to fall right on the axe. Andre and Peter are later seen at the train station leaving Berlin with the puppets.
[edit] Featured Puppets
- Blade
- Pinhead
- Jester
- Tunneler
- Leech Woman
- Six Shooter
[edit] Cast
- Guy Rolfe – Andre Toulon
- Sarah Douglas – Elsa Toulon
- Richard Lynch – Major Krauss
- Ian Abercrombie – Dr. Hess
- Kristopher Logan – Lt. Eric Stein
- Aron Eisenberg – Peter Hertz
- Walter Gotell – General Mueller
- Matthew Faison – Hertz
- Michelle Bauer – Lilly
- Jasmine Touschek – Prostitute
- Eduard Will – Soldier on stage
- John Regis – Morgue attendant
- Neal Parrow – Young driver
- Kenneth Cortland – Pharmacy soldier
- Lenny Rose – Airport agent
[edit] Deaths
- Dead Soldier #1- shot to death by Major Kraus after scientific experiment with Dr. Hess
- Elsa Toulon - shot by a Nazi and Major Kraus
- Soldier #1 - strangled to death by Pinhead
- Soldier #2 - drilled through the stomach by Tunneler
- Doctor - strangled with barbed wire by Pinhead
- Lt. Eric Stein - hit in the face with a mallet by Pinhead, and four leeched to the face by Leech Woman
- Dead Soldier #2 - falls dead after scientific experiment with Dr. Hess
- General Mueller - shot to death by Six-Shooter
- Soldier #3 - face hit with a brick by Pinhead
- Soldier #4 - drilled in the leg by Tunneler, and leech to the mouth by Leech Woman
- Soldier #5 - shot to death by Six-Shooter
- Hertz - shot by Kraus
- Dr. Hess - stabbed by Soldier #5 before dying
- Major Kraus - tortered by Pinhead, Blade, and Andre
[edit] Trivia
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- Actor Guy Rolfe makes his first appearance as Andre Toulon in this film and portrayed the character in the remaining films (until his death).
- This film is unique among all the sequels in that it tells the back story of not only Andre Toulon, but his puppets as well. Retro Puppet Master later followed a similar formula. Toulon and his puppets are also given a sympathetic take, rather than senseless killers.
- This is the first film to feature the popular Six-Shooter.
- This film, along with the first five chapters, was only available on DVD through a Full Moon Features box set that was out of print and unauthorized, but is now available from the Full Moon Direct website as well as from them through Amazon.com. The box also included the sixth and seventh chapters of the franchise and a bonus disc containing 45 movie trailers. Other than the first three films which have been released separately as a Spanish region free DVD, the films have not been released individually themselves yet.
- The movie, which is a prequel to the first Puppet Master, is actual set two years afterward. Charles Band has explained that he sees the movies as comic books. Historically, comic books would have skewed time lines and many different story lines despite having the same main character.
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