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| Directed by | Dave Allen |
| Written by | David Pabian |
| Produced by | Charles Band |
| Starring | Elizabeth Maclellan Collin Bernsen Steve Welles Gregory Webb Charlie Spradling Jeff Weston Nita Talbot |
| Cinematography | Thomas F. Denove |
| Edited by | Bert Glatstein Peter Teschner |
| Music by | Richard Band |
| Distributed by | Full Moon Features |
Release date | February 7, 1991 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $780,000 |
Puppet Master II is a 1991 horror film written by David Pabian and directed by Dave Allen. It is the sequel to 1989's Puppet Master, and stars Elizabeth Maclellan, Gregory Webb, Charlie Spradling, Jeff Weston and Nita Talbot as paranormal investigators who are terrorized by the animate creations of an undead puppeteer, played by Steve Welles. Originally, Puppet Master II was intended to have the subtitle His Unholy Creations.
Puppet Master II, as well as the third, fourth and fifth installments of the series, are only available in DVD format through a Full Moon Features box set that has since been discontinued.
Plot
The movie begins at Shady Oaks, a cemetery in the backyard of the Bodega Bay Inn. As we go around the graveyard, we see Pinhead digging up a grave, Andre Toulon's grave. Pinhead opens up the coffin, climbs out, and pours the formula of giving life on the skeleton, with Tunneler, Leech Woman, Blade and Jester watching. After pouring the formula, the skeleton rises its arms, indicating that Andre Toulon is alive again. A few months later, a group of parapsychologists, led by Carolyn Bramwell (Elizabeth Maclellan), are sent to the hotel in order to investigate the strange murder of Megan Gallagher and the lunatic ravings of a now insane Alex Whitaker. It is explained that Megan's brain was extracted through her nose (by Blade), and Alex is now locked up in an asylum for having terrible seizures and premonitions.
That very evening, one of the investigators, Camille Kenney (Nita Talbot), decides to leave after spotting two of the puppets in her room. But while packing, Pinhead breaks her kneecaps. Jester then ties a ribbon around her mouth, and Pinhead drags her off, with her still alive. The next day, the rest of the investigators are now getting suspicious, due to finding Camille's belongings and car still at the hotel. That very evening, another investigator, Carolyn's brother Patrick (Gregory Webb) gets his head tunneled by Tunneler. But then, another investigator, Lance (Jeff Weston) comes in, knocks Tunneler out, and crushes him with a lamp, killing Tunneler. The investigators now realize that the puppets are not remote control puppets, now realizing that their gears and wood are run chemically by the formula, meaning that they've found the secret of artificial intelligence.
The next morning, still trying understand the puppet's motivation, a man named Eriquee Chaneé (Steve Welles) comes in, stating that he's the new owner of the hotel, and he was in Bucharest. Then, Camille's son, Michael (Collin Bernsen), comes over, trying to figure out what happened to his mother. That very evening, Blade and Leech Woman go over to some farmer's house, where Leech Woman kills the husband, Matthew (George "Buck" Flower), but then gets burned in the fireplace by the wife, Martha (Sage Allen), killing Leech Woman. Just before the Martha shoots Blade to pieces with her shotgun, a new puppet, Torch, walks in and burns Martha with his flame-throwing arm. It is now revealed that Eriquee is really Andre Toulon and he created Torch after being brought back to life, and now believes that Carolyn is a reincarnation of his now deceased wife, Elsa.
Toulon then has a flashback of him (played by Steve Welles) and Elsa (also played by Elizabeth Maclellan) buying the formula of eternal life from a Cairo Merchant (Ivan J. Rado). The next morning, Michael and Carolyn go into town to find Camille, while it is revealed that the puppets are killing because the puppets are growing weaker unless they have the secret ingredient that makes that formula: blood tissue. Carolyn, now knowing there are no records of Eriquee Chaneé, she now begins to believe that Eriquee is somehow connected with the disappearance of Camille and the death of her brother, Patrick, at the same time, has a crush on Michael. That very evening, Carolyn and Michael kiss, and have a little romantic interlude, as so does the rest of the investigators: Lance, and his wife, Wanda (Charlie Spradling). Then, Blade kills both Lance and Wanda, using their tissue for the formula.
That very evening, Carolyn sneaks into Eriquee's room, and finds two life sized mannequins in the wardrobe. Eriquee sneaks up behind Elsa and ties her up. Michael, hearing her screams, goes to rescue her, after finishing off challenges with Torch, Pinhead, and Blade. On his way up, Michael finds his mother, Camille in the dumbwaiter, with Jester slitting her throat. Meanwhile, the puppets now realize that their puppet master has used them for his own needs, realizing that he's using the formula for his own immortality, and Carolyn's, still believing she's Elsa. After putting his soul into the man-sized mannequin by soul-transference, the puppets start torturing Toulon, until Torch walks in, and burns Toulon, who falls out the window and dies. Michael then breaks into the room, saves Carolyn, and get out of the hotel. Afterward, Jester goes back to Camille's body with the rest of the formula.
Several days later, it is revealed that Camille's soul has been put in the woman-sized mannequin, and is now running her own little puppet show. Blade, Pinhead, and Jester, are locked up in a cage, except Torch. Camille then decides to go to the Bouldeston Institution for the mentally troubled tots and teens. Camille puts the puppets in the back of her car, and Torch up on the passenger's seat, and drives off, leaving this movie as a cliff-hanger.
Cast
- Elizabeth Maclellan – Carolyn Bramwell, Elsa Toulon
- Collin Bernsen – Michael Kenney
- Steve Welles – Andre Toulon, Eriquee Chaneé
- Gregory Webb – Patrick Bramwell
- Charlie Spradling – Wanda
- Jeff Weston – Lance
- Nita Talbot – Camille Kenney
- Sage Allen – Martha
- George Buck Flower – Mathew
- Sean B. Ryan – Billy
- Ivan J. Rado – Cairo Merchant
- Michael Todd – Puppet Toulon
- Julianne Mazziotti – Puppet Camille/Elsa
- Taryn Band – Cairo Child
- Alex Band – Cairo Child
