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& MGM/UA, Inc./ Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director..............Stan Winston(The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.........Mark Patrick Carducci & Gary Gerani</B></div> <div> <B>Music..................Richard Stone</B></div> <div> <B>Producer............Howard Smith & Richard C. Weinman</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Alex de Benedetti</B></div> <div> <B>Creature Effects by Alec Gillis, Richard Landon, Shane Patrick Mahan,                      John Rosengrant & Tom Woodruff, Jr.</B></div> <div> <B>Story by Mark Patrick Carducci, Stan Winston (Predator) </B></div> <div> <B>         & Richard C. Weinman</B></div> <div> <B>Inspired by a Poem by Ed Justin</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Ed Harley......Lance Henrikson*(Alien,Near Dark, Pit and the Pendulum)</B></div> <div> <B>Chris..........Jeff East (Campus Corpse, Summer of Fear, Tom Sawyer)</B></div> <div> <B>Joel...........John DiAquino</B></div> <div> <B>Kim............Kimberly Ross</B></div> <div> <B>Steve..........Joel Hoffmann</B></div> <div> <B>Tracey.........Cynthia Bain (Spontaneous Combustion)</B></div> <div> <B>Maggie.........Kerry Remsen (Appointment With Fear)</B></div> <div> <B>Haggis.........Florence Schauffler</B></div> <div> <B>Billy Harley...Matthew Hurley</B></div> <div> <B>Pumpkinhead....Tom Woodruff Jr.</B></div> <div> <B>Clayton Heller.Richard Warlock</B></div> <div> <B>Wallace Kid....Mayim Bialik (Blossom)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: When motocross-punks carelessly cause the death of a widower-hillbilly Harley's only son, he employs a witch to conjure up the demon of vengeance. This movie is extremely well-done with a strong story and a very scary monster. The transition from Harley as a boy afraid of the demon in 1957 to Harley, the demon's life force in the present, nicely portrays the persistence of myth despite thirty years of Pumpkinhead inactivity, regardless of the fact that the demon is very real. The scene is set wonderfully when Harley holds his son and says: Once upon a time there was a this old man, and he had, oh God, this very very special son." On a symbolic level, Pumpkinhead as the embodiment of the uncontrollable destructive force of the righteous vengeance of the wronged is handled elegantly. On a concrete level, Pumkinhead is a terrifying movie monster. As an effects triumph and as the embodiment of vengeance, Pumpkinhead functions beautifully. What the director does with this, however, is better still as the demon becomes identified with the wronged Ed Harley. Great horror movie mood is created by the colors, lighting, and particularly the scenery--a graveyard, a sorceress' hut, the spooky hills. Lance Henrikson is, as always, a great scary actor. The little hillbilly girl who, ironically, doesn't know what a camera is, is a very young Mayim Bialik who went on to mug endlessly in the TV-series Blossom. Director Stan Winston created the dinosaurs in Jurrasic Park as well as the gorillas in Congo. The sequal to this film, Blood Wings, is a worthy successor.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Via flashback to 1957, we are made familiar with the reality of the legend of Pumpkinhead. A farmer, Tom Harley loads his gun, puts his livestock in the barn and locks all the doors. When a screaming local man implores him to open his door "It's after me Tom! It's goin' to get me!" What kind of a Christian are ya?" Tom explains that he is truly sorry and tells him to get away before he shoots.</B></div> <div> <B>The children of this still very rural village sing a song about "Punkinhead" who punishes those who do evil. Most don't really believe in Pumpkinhead but they can't help but fear that he exists. When an irresponsible city-folk dirt biker with a record of driving while intoxicated hits and kills the beloved only son of the widowed outpost shopkeeper ("He was gonna grow up to be somethin' special."), then leaves him there to die, Joe decides he isn't going to jail for an accident. He's on probation for drinking and driving an d flees the scene. you get the feeling this might be a job for Pumpkinhead. The vengeful father drives into the mountains in search of a woman rumored to have special powers who is feared by everyone. Although adults won't help him, (the hillbilly grandfather says, "She won't bring your boy back, she'll only take you straight to hell!") a teenager shows him the way, but refuses to ride along. The old woman, Haggis, instructs him vaguely to go to a graveyard at "Razorback Hollow" with a shovel and dig until he find what he's looking for. What he digs up is the embodiment of vengeance itself, lying dormant, waiting to be brought to life by the boiling blood of a person to whom an injustice has been done. Once the nightmare has begun, there is no turning back. Lock the doors and don't bother trying to help the marked ones. It only kills what its supposed to kill...and anything else that gets in its way. When Ed Harley realizes the form and the consequences that his vengeance has taken, he changes his mind about it and tries to send Pumpkinhead back to the hell from which it came. This sets up the showdown between Ed Harley and his own demon of revenge. Can it be stopped? The old woman warned him that vengeance has a powerful price and Ed Harley's vengeance destroys him as its final victim.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <div> <B></B></div> <bR> <div> <B></B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <div> <B></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> Puppet Master</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent (Sexual Assault) * Some Strong Language *</B></div> <div> <B>* Brief Nudity * Sexual Situations * Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1989/Color/90 Min./Paramount Home Video & Full Moon Productions/</B></div> <div> <B>Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........David Schmoeller (Crawlspace, Curse IV, Netherworld)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Joseph G. Collodi </B></div> <div> <B>Music............Richard Band (Puppet Master 2, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Hope Perello</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Charles Band (Puppet Master 2, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Puppet Effects Created by David Allen Productions</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Make-up by Patrick Simmons</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by Charles Band & Kenneth J. Hall</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Alex Whitaker......Paul LeMat (American Graffiti, Grave Secrets)</B></div> <div> <B>Dana Hadley........Irene Miracle (In the Shadow of Kilamanjaro)</B></div> <div> <B>Frank Forrester....Matt Roe</B></div> <div> <B>Carissa Stamford...Kathryn O'Reilly</B></div> <div> <B>Theresa............Marya Small (Fade to Black)</B></div> <div> <B>Neil Gallagher.....Jimmy F. Skaggs (The Lost Capone)</B></div> <div> <B>Megan Gallagher....Robin Frates </B></div> <div> <B>Woman at Carnival..Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond)</B></div> <div> <B>Andre Toulon.......William Hickey*(Tales From the Darkside, Runestone)</B></div> <div> <B>Man at Carnival....David Boyd</B></div> <div> <B>Assassin #1........Peter Frankland</B></div> <div> <B>Assassin #2........Andrew Kimbrough</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: What a pleasant surprise this was. The greatest fear of any horror movie viewer is a bunch of puppets killing people with no plot, no history, no motivation. That doesn't happen here. While it could have attempted an explanation of the nature of the Puppet Master's magic, it does pass a number of other tests. Firstly the puppets are scary and the puppet effects are a definite plus, a rarity in itself. a couple of scary dream sequences. The surprise ending adds minus one to the final tally because it doesn't make sense.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Bodega Bay Inn 1939 The puppet master works on a new puppet while another of his creations is having a very harrowing trip home and two Nazis are on their way to the puppet maker. The Puppet master hides the puppets in the wall and the Nazis knock and Andre Toulon shoots his brains out. Yale University the present Alex, a professor of Anthropology dreams of being ripped apart. A fortune teller also has a vision of being killed. At Pensa Research Inc. Recreate in your mind your wildest sexual fantasy. Alex calls and all of them at once are receiving signals. They also received a call from the White Witch Dina to meet at the Bodega Bay inn. All should be there as all their collective powers are required. Alex Whittaker dreams the future, Frank Forester, Clarissa Stemford who can read the history of objects=psychometry, and Dana Hadley a fortune teller are met by Megan Gallagher, the new wife of Neil. Neil is dead has shot himself and Megan doesn't know why. His note said only he didn't want to be buried until they all arrived The psychics are baffled that they received no signal and theorizes Neil blocked it out. That evening a pin-headed muscle man puppet with big hands climbs out of Neil's coffin. Neil had brought the group together for his research and Frank and Neil researched the ancient Egyptian methods of giving life to figurines. Dana helped Neil locate the last true  Alchemist the famous puppetmaster of the 1920's. That night the cleaning lady maid hears sounds in the parlor and investigates until pinhead bashes her head in with a poker. The psychic gain runs to investigate Megan's scream discover dead Neil sitting in a chair.. still dead. Maid Theresa is nowhere to be found. Dec. 8  Frank is naked, blindfolded and tied to the bed during a sexual experiment when a gang of puppets come in a and get Clarissa and puts giant leeches on frank. Now dead Neil is in Dana's room and the pinhead attacks her followed by the little slasher guy. Alex dreams of a meeting with Neil in the attic Andre Toulon's diary is in the attic describing the living puppets. Do the survivors stand any chance against Neil's army of evil puppets?</B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> Puppetmaster II</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * Sexual Situations *</B></div> <div> <B>* Brief Nudity * Gory * </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1990/Color/90 Min./Paramount Home Video & Full Moon Entertainment/ Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........David Allen (The Dungeonmaster)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......David Pabian</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Richard Band (Puppet Master)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........David DeCoteau & John Schouweiler (Puppet Master III)</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Charles Band (Puppet Master, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Puppet Effects Created by David Allen Productions</B></div> <div> <B>Special EFX Make-Up by David Barton</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by Charles Band</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Carolyn Bramwell.Elizabet MacLellan  </B></div> <div> <B>Elsa.............Elizabet MacLellan</B></div> <div> <B>Michael Kenney...Collin Bernsen </B></div> <div> <B>Wanda............Charlie Spradling (To Sleep With a Vampire)</B></div> <div> <B>Andre Toulon.....Steve Welles </B></div> <div> <B>Eriquee Chane‚...Steve Welles</B></div> <div> <B>Lance............Jeff Weston</B></div> <div> <B>Patrick Bramwell.Gregory Webb</B></div> <div> <B>Cairo Merchant...Ivan J. Rado (Subspecies)</B></div> <div> <B>Martha...........Sage Allen</B></div> <div> <B>Mathew...........George "Buck" Flower (Village of the Damned)</B></div> <div> <B>Camille..........Nita Talbot(Amityville 1992, Frightmare,Island Claws)</B></div> <div> <B>Billy............Sean B. Ryan</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: What is it about Richard Band's theme music to Puppetmaster? It is the sound of mystery. This is a slight improvement over the first for one main reason, a vague idea is given of how Toulon gets his stringless puppets to go. Also, the reanimated Toulon character is great fun to a point. We certainly could have done without the animal noises he made after drinking the animal brains fluid. The movie was doing fine going for pure scare until that silly mistake. Precisely this kind of momentary lapse is what hurt the first movie at the end and Toulon's warning about animal brains remains unfulfilled other than a few squeaks. That the torch didn't exist at the time of Toulon's death and is a bit pyrotechnically advanced  Still the penultimate scene is suspenseful enough with the tension created by three different interest groups colliding at once and so many fates decided by Toulon's betrayal of the puppets. The puppets are once again superb. They are not for a moment silly. Also the makeup is excellent. Toulon's invisible man look is great stuff and he's even better when he takes it off. Followed by an enlightening Full Moon Video Zone Magazine.</B></div> <div> <B>                                          Ms. Leech</B></div> <div> <B>Plot Summary: At Shady Oaks Cemetery, puppet Pinhead digs up Toulon and pours a green elixir which awakens the dead puppet master. A young team of researchers headed by Carolyn Bramwell arrive at the Bodega Bay Hotel, cobwebs everywhere and a cemetery in the back yard, to find out if Alex Whittaker (see: Puppet Master) was nuts or if something here drove him mad. A paranormal investigation by the U.S. Office of Paranormal claims. An eccentric old woman mystic had the place built full of secret passages. The neighbors are having a problem with the mutilation of their farm animals. They say at the hotel Satan has a suite of rooms but the weird farmers give the witch lady directions to the hotel. The government is paying for this research. The irritatingly smug medium, Camille, is eccentric but no fraud. The hope is that she'll tune into something the scientists might not. The previous owner had her brains extracted through her nose as in Egyptian mummification procedure after all but one of a team of psychics were wiped out in the hotel (see: Puppet Master). The survivor, Alex Whittaker, suffered seizures and premonitions in an asylum. Psychic Camille takes some fire by a member of the team her brother Bramwell is an alcoholic. finds an article which describes how Toulon fled the Nazis but committed suicide in the hotel when they found him. Camille elects to leave the house and suggests the research team do the same. Before she can leave Toulon's army spirits her away. Finally all the surveillance equipment pays off as it captures drill head man, Tunneler, sneaking through the halls. Unfortunately he drills Patrick's brains out before the team can get to him and smash him up with a lamoop. An autopsy reveals that drill head man is just wood and gears, no motors. It must run chemically somehow off this fluid. As the team puzzles over the puppet a bandaged invisible man looking guy marches into the hotel and announces "I am Enriquee Chane‚" and "I've resided here for decades". He has been in Bucharest trying to do something about his bandage problem. Michael Kenney, Camille's son, arrives on a motorcycle. The research team hopes Michael can find Camille so they can ask her what she knows. blade man knocks out the electric fence at the farm the fat farm lady Martha awakes to find leech woman cutting up her husband Mathew. Leech woman gets thrown in the wood stove but, flamethrower man gets her and slasher man. Toulon needs human parts to provide the elixor that keeps himself and his puppets animated. The secrets of Osiris keep them going and give the another fifty years as Toulon's marvelous stringless marionettes. Unfortunately, one of the researchers looks just like Toulon's enchanting wife. cut to 1912 Cairo exhibition where Toulon's puppets performed Goethe's Faust. During a performance, another sorcerer causes Toulon's simplistic puppets to burst into flames, then offers him the secret of puppet animation. A search of the Bodega holistic retreat turns up nothing. Carolyn realizes that Chane‚'s appearance coincided with Patrick's murder and disappearance. She becomes uncharacteristically soft for a moment and Michael kisses her. You puppets brought me back to my Elsa. Their reward is the elixor. Michael wants to dance with Carolyn but Chane‚ walks in and requests the dance. Carolyn reluctantly complies. The song was Elsa's favorite. When Michael cuts in, Chane‚ becomes very uptight. Carolyn wants to find proof that Chane‚ is involved. Michael warns her against it and they sleep together. The puppets return with more guts, and Chane‚ is pleased at their patience that they bring only human guts, stressing that animal guts do not work, at which point the puppets are mortified. "What amusing creatures that would make you" chortles Chane‚ and adds that no one but Carolyn will escape. Torch is assigned to deal with Michael's burning desires. Wanda heads to check on Carolyn, leaving Lance in the room with slasher man she runs back to help and he gets both of their guts. Carolyn gets out of bed with Michael and sees Chane‚ by the ocean shore, the perfect opportunity to search his room. However, Chane‚e cuts his contemplation short and returns immediately, calling her "Elsa". Naked Michael escapes the torch. Carolyn guesses Chane‚'s real identity. Time is running out for Carolyn as Michael battles Torch and Pinhead and Blade. The puppets were growing weaker and used the last of their fluid to revive Toulon. Toulon desperately struggles to recreate himself and Elsa with the last of the fluid and two life-size puppet replacements. However, a third interested party is approaching to the pitter patter of little wooden feet. The elixor... Showdown in the attic.</B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> Puppetmaster III</B></div> <div> <B> Toulon's Revenge</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Nudity * Blood * Gory * Strong Language * Sexual Situations *        * Violent *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1991/Color/86 Min./Paramount Home Video/Full Moon Entertainment/</B></div> <div> <B>Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........David DeCoteau (Creepozoids, Nightmare Sisters)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......C. Courtney Joyner</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Richard Band (The Pit and the Pendulum, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........John Schouweiler & David DeCoteau (Puppet Master II)</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Charles Band (The Pit and the Pendulum)</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Effects Designed by David Barton</B></div> <div> <B>Puppet Effects Created by David Allen Productions (Subspecies)</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Idea by Charles Band</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Andre Toulon.....Guy Rolfe (Alphabet Murders, Dolls, Puppet Master IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Else Toulon......Sarah Douglas (Return of the Living Dead III)</B></div> <div> <B>General Mueller..Walter Gotell (Basic Training)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Hess.........Ian Abercrombie (Army of Darkness, Curse IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Lt. Eric Stein...Kristopher Logan </B></div> <div> <B>Peter Hertz......Aron Eisenberg (Playroom)</B></div> <div> <B>Hertz............Matthew Faison</B></div> <div> <B>Major Kraus......Richard Lynch (Alligator II, Bad Dreams, Deathsport)</B></div> <div> <B>Lili.............Michelle Bauer (Lady Avenger)</B></div> <div> <B>Prostitute.......Jasmine Totschek</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: The puppets are again excellent. Their movement are convincingly the movements of animated puppets. Although Kraus is decidedly a one-dimensional hate machine, he is still enjoyable to watch. Not as much psychic background in this one, and the puppets concentrating on doing harm to evil doers (of which there are plenty to spare in 1941 Berlin) results in more of an action movie, generating little in the way of horror. Horror requires some sort of empathy with the victim, and here there is none. Still, it keeps a pretty tidy pace. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Berlin 1941. Reanimation Experiments are being performed in Dr. Hess' office. The experiment is to allow dead soldiers movement so that they can be used as a shield. Just then, the experimental victim rises from the cot and attacks Hess. Success! Sort of. Raging maniacs won't cut it with General Mueller. Herr Toulon's Hitler puppet is made to dance by a cowboy. A brown shirter, Eric Stein takes photographs. Stein claims he's a fellow marionetter. Toulon says he uses motorization rather than strings. Stein warns him that he ought to change his show. Stein, still skeptical, looks in the window as the puppets are given doses of a green elixir and seem to be responding and moving in marvelous ways. Stein photographs this. Stein falls off his crate but he comes away with the photos. Toulon gives his wife a puppet likeness of her. Stein explains that the puppets react as if they are alive. The Gestapo man is told to let Hess talk to Toulon before Kraus gets him. Else is shot as she tries to knock the drug out of his hand. As Toulon is led away, Kraus finishes her off. Hess heads off with the drug to analyze it. The soldiers driving Toulon and the puppets get a rude surprise. The infuriated Kraus has the playhouse burned down. A house to house search looks like it might turn up Toulon's hiding place. Toulon urges the puppets to show no mercy on those who killed Else. A morgue attendant is garotted by pin head. Toulon gets to work on Else's body and extracts some blood. The Else doll is animated, shuddering to life. Things aren't progressing on the reanimation front for Dr. Hess and he would dearly love to get a hold of Toulon. Kraus wants him as well, but not necessarily to get info out of him. Meanwhile Pinhead gets to work on Stein, and Else finishes him off with leaches. Kraus shoots up Toulon's lab, but Toulon gets away. Mueller gets six-shot at his high level meeting with a prostitute. Peter Hertz and his father are fugitives with Toulon. Peter sneaks off to get some tools for Toulon. He is caught by Hess and Hess convinces him that he wants to help Toulon. Toulon explains to Hess that it is the human spirit that is the secret. The drug itself is not enough. Hertz goes to Kraus to turn Toulon in. They arrive while Hess is still there. Drill head, Pinhead and Else take care of the soldiers as they get away to search out one more victim. Hess is another victim to Klaus, but it looks like he had the requisite will to live to be added to the puppet show. </B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> Puppet Master 4     (Puppet/Demon/Scientist/Slasher)   6******skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Strong Language * Violent * No Sexual Situations * No Nudity * Not Particularly Gory. *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1993/Color/80 Min./Paramount Home Video & Full Moon Entertainment </B></div> <div> <B>& Kings Road Entertainment & Paramount Pictures Corporation/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Jeff Burr (Leatherface, The Offspring, Stepfather II)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Todd Henschall, Steven E. Carr, Jo Duffy, </B></div> <div> <B>                 Doug Aarniokoski, & Keith Payson </B></div> <div> <B>Music............Richard Band (The Pit and the Pendulum, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Charles Band (Puppet Master III)</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Puppet Effects Supervisor by David Allen (Puppet MasterIII,Subspecies)</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make up Mechanical Effects by Alchemyfx Michael S. Deak</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Rick Myers.......Gordon Currie</B></div> <div> <B>Susie............Chandra West</B></div> <div> <B>Cameron..........Jason Adams</B></div> <div> <B>Lauren...........Teresa Hill</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Carl Baker...Felton Perry</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Leslie Piper.Stacie Randall</B></div> <div> <B>Stanley..........Mike Wiles</B></div> <div> <B>Toulon...........Guy Rolfe (Alphabet Murders, Dolls, Puppet MasterIII)</B></div> <div> <B>Delivery Man.....Dan Zukovic</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: Following the Full Moon Video formula for success, the film is short 80 fast-paced and action packed with once again amazing puppet work by puppeteers Mark Rappaport, Chris Endicott, and Jrgen Heimann. The original theme music by x Band is as spooky as ever, but suffering a bit from overexposure as is indeed the entire Toulon legend. Time to blow the whole murderous pack of mean yet loyal toys to smithereens in part 5, indeed like all beloved playthings its time for Toulon's puppets to be lost, stolen, or simply break. Music </B></div> <div> <B>Darth Vader voice. The head demon's pretty cheap. It's obviously set up to be a sequel leaving the viewer with the knowledge that x is the new puppetmaster but with no indication how he intends to wield his dangerous new power or if he will share the artificial life elixir with his employers the x project.. The whole thing is getting pretty old and the film ends with a trailer for part 5. Followed by a Full Moon video magazine too much like its predecessors to warrant serious interest.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: The king of the underground puppets declares those in the upworld will not uncover their secret. (Which Toulon stole so many years before) Biotech Industries. Leslie tells Carl that the robot arm works. Leslie receives a strange puppet via special delivery. The thing is suddenly animated, and soon Leslie's research is at an end. Her energy is drawn  into the puppet as the underground denizens observe from afar. Rick, who works with game robots trying to make them transcend their programming, receives a puppet from a crate. Carl has received a robot as well. Suzie, Lorie and Cameron arrive at Rick's abode. Carl too has a little visitor. Lori's field is metaphysics. She's got a grant for channeling. A dark presence, perhaps Toulon, watches the proceedings. Rick gives in and shows Cameron and the others his work. Lori starts to channel some negative energy from the hookman puppet. Lori wants to see the box the puppet came in and soon faints. She warns them not to open the trunk, but they try anyway. They open the trunk and what they see is Toulon's posters and a Nazi passport. And Pinhead, Tunnler and siz shooter. They find the elixir and inject the puppets. They are appalled to see that the animation works. In the underworld, they're not pleased. Cameron plans to find the formula and sell it to Omega. When Cameron tells Lori that Rick's been laughing at her all night, she is on his team. Rick goes for a laser fight with the puppets and is impressed. Meanwhile, Kevin convinces Lori to channel Toulon against her own doubts. Unfortunately there's a package at the door. Lauren tries to summon Toulon but instead summons two of the devils from the underworld. Rick goes to investigate when he hears about the demons, luckily the puppets have taken a shine to him. Cameron and Lauren try o escape, but things don't work out for Cameron. The puppets take care of one of the devils. It's time for decaptron as the puppets pull out a new puppet. The puppets run a conductive wire to the roof to awaken decapatorn Frankenstein style. Egyptan demon lord Sutet. Toulon comes to life through the animation of decapatron and tells Rick that the secret to animation comes in the numeric sequence and he's very close. Unfortunately, there are still demons about.   </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>