I think Littlest Reich is the best Puppet Master flick. As low bar as that is. Only problems with it are the ending (still no word on if we're getting a sequel) and I didn't like the change to Toulon making him into a Nazi.
I doubt we will. Cinestate produced it when they rebooted Fangoria and started producing films. After the entire fiasco that company went through and the Fangoria employee walkouts when they found out, we'll never get a sequel. There was an article calling the movies of Cinestate and S. Craig Zahler facist, despite Zahler being Jewish. Especially with how offensive his movies can be, despite that being the point of them. As for The Littlest Reich, it was a lot of fun. Saw it at a local arthouse theater with a drunk crowd. I'm surprised that Charlyne Yi's ugly ass didn't complain about how she was forced to work on that movie. They even gave us an audience award ballot that was really a focus group questionnaire asking us what we liked and didn't like about the movie.
I don't know if this should go here or in that other horror movie thread, but I've been watching the following:
7. Blood and Black Lace - Since people were talking about Bava, I rewatched this one. Often mislabeled as the first giallo, it has some spectacular visuals, violence and sexiness others would copy for their films. A model murdered by a masked maniac! The inspector on the case discovers blackmail, corruption, drugs and a diary that has all their dirty little secrets. Who will die trying to find it? Will the killer or the inspector find it first? Available on Tubi.
8. Monsters Crash the Pajama Party Spook Show Spectacular - An amazing disc assembled by Something Weird Video. The DVD is an interactive easter egg with lots of box-office ballyhoo and shlocky secrets to discover! Everything from movie trailers for horror movie festivals with outlandish gimmicks to short scary films, macabre music and lots more. Cinemassacre did a review of this disc and if you're fond of this sort of stuff, you're in for a real treat.
9. The Burning Moon - A Shot on Video German gorefest featuring a shitty teen shooting up heroin and reading two fucked up bedtime stories to his sister. One is about a girl going on a blind date with a serial killer and the other is about a priest's psychotic and rape-y past leading him to hell. Short on budget, but big on ambition and gore. Check out the trailer and if that piques your interest, check it out.
10. Father's Day - An action-horror-comedy about a guy named Ahab that saw his father get raped and killed by a serial killer named Chris Fuchman when he was a kid. Now an adult, he's looking for revenge and his long lost sister. He teams up with a priest and a male prostitute named Twink who can help him. Turns out the serial killer is not what he appears to be and there's a bigger secret regarding Ahab's sister. Troma distributed the film, but the movie itself was made by a group called Astron 6 that does a lot of genre movie homages/parodies. The movie itself is presented as a late night TV feature presentation. If you like early Troma movies, you'll enjoy this.
11. Black Magic 2 - Shaw Brothers does 70s horror with lots of bare breasts, a chicken and crocodile getting killed, self-removed eyeballs, melting corpses, titty milk drinking, worms wiggling in wounds and a wizard battle! The movie isn't a sequel to the first one, it's more of a remake. The song that is sampled in the Beastie Boys song "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" is used in this movie, without permission of course. This is a perfect example of a psychotronic movie. Available on Amazon Prime Video.
12. We Are Going To Eat You - An early film from Hong Kong auteur Tsui Hark. Stolen music from the 'Suspiria' soundtrack, it deals with a detective dealing with cannibalistic murders in a small town. Gore, kung fu and lots of slapstick humor. The Goblin music adds to the weirdness.
13. Here Comes The Devil - A family takes a trip to Tijuana and the parents let their kids go exploring some caves and end up lost. Once the parents find them, the children act and behave in an unusual manner. The mother starts to investigate and discovers strange stories about where the kids were and what led them to change. Definitely inspired by 70s and 80s psychological horror films, it would be the type of artsy horror A24 would release, but this has way more nudity, sex, taboos and violence than they're used to releasing. Not bad at all. Avaialbe on Tubi.
14. The Devil's Candy - A man named Raymond hears demonic voices (that oddly enough sounds like the band Sunn 0)) which appear on the soundtrack) and he tries to drown them out with guitar music, this freaks out his mom and in a fit of confusion, he accidentally kills his mom and possibly his dad. Their house ends up going for sale and a family is desperate to buy it. Turns out the husband of the family is a struggling painter and starts to hear the same noises Raymond did and his artwork starts to look like black metal album covers instead of his typical work. Raymond is still lurking around the city and wants to go back to his home. Ethan Embry as the struggling artists and caring metalhead father was good, but I really like Pruitt Taylor Vince as Raymond. His eye condition and nervous disposition suit him well for the role. It doesn't fully go into dark territory, but contrasts its dark side with a sweet father daughter relationship. There's a subplot about a Faustian deal with the father submitting his evil artwork to a local art gallery named Belial that is pointless and goes nowhere, but the soundtrack is pretty good.
