The Puppet Masters (1994, dir. Stuart Orme) The Old Man (Donald Sutherland) and his team are chased by infected humans
by Neo2199
The Puppet Masters (1994, dir. Stuart Orme) The Old Man (Donald Sutherland) and his team are chased by infected humans
by Neo2199
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this was a good spin on the Body Snatchers movies
I remember when I was a kid and rented this from Blockbuster thinking this was a new Puppet Master movie. I was very disappointed there were no evil dolls when I watched it.
I laughed way too hard at the cops just chilling while hanging off the car door.
I enjoyed this enough that I went out and got the book. It was written in 1951 and it shows.
There are so many things to love here:
1. Memories of when everyone thought silencers made piffy laser noises for some reason
2. Sutherland trying to play it cool for the receptionist who was sitting just feet away from a massive commotion of yelling and gunshots
3. Sutherland’s monotone ADR’d lines like “That’s the boy from the spaceship!”
Chef’s kiss
MUNCH!
Sidenote, gas was $1.11 😢
if it weren’t for that 1 second shot at 4:23, I wouldn’t have even known John Munch was in the car with them the whole time. Did the editors forget he was there or something?
MUNCH!
I read this book in high school and shared it with my friends. After that our standard greeting was to pat each others back.
I remember being quite impressed with this when it came out. Some parts might feel a bit obvious or dated now, but I loved how the character played by Julie Warner opens her blouse a little more to test the man at the desk because it’s a callback to an earlier scene where she points out that Sam had looked her up and down when they first met.
I need to get the Blu-Ray of this. I thought it was good, and I’d like to see how it holds up.
That was brilliantly shit, the car scene should have gone on for half an hour.