This film follows directly on the first film, with a group of paranormal investigators setting up in the hotel. This installment has more atmosphere than the original and the action starts a lot sooner. It started off more interesting than the original film, but then quickly turned ridiculous. Andre Toulon is an annoying character, all bandaged and looking like a cross between Darkman and Michael Jackson. The film turns utterly weird towards the end as the characters are being killed off.

The first Puppet master movie is very scary. This is scarier. Puppet master III is better. Puppet master 4 is better. Puppet master 5 is better. But still this a great horror movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.5 is a good ratting. But this is such a great movie that 5.5 is underrating it. This a very scary movie. I give it 9 out of 10. This is better The Shinning. And that is not easy to do. This is better then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier Then the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th could ever be. This is scarier then Bride of Chucky could ever be. See it. It is one of the best horror movie from 1990.

I think this is an improvement over the first movie, I find the characters to be moderately more likable and the plot to be much more coherent and it just flows better. It takes what was established in the original movie and builds on it, and I find it an all-round more entertaining and scarier picture. Man I love the score! That is such a beautiful piece of music by Richard Band that never fails to get my inner cogs turning! I find that it greatly enriches the movie's tone and gives it an added depth, as does the tremendously effective setting. To me the desolate inn by the sea is itself very much a character in the first two films of the series at least. From its gaudiness, to the marble floors and the angles on all of the empty dark corridors, it's like your really traditional haunted house. In my own unflattering way I'm trying to say that for the time it was made, this movie was scary! Never scarred me for life or anything, but there's some very freaky stuff in it, once it starts with the creepy stuff it doesn't let up. You don't have to wait for the last act for everything to really pay off, there's effort done to keep folks entertained and unnerved. There's a lot more focus on the puppets this time around, there way more out in the open right from the beginning. I love the fantastic style of the opening scene with them all engaging in a little necromancy, the macabre image of the zombie arms reaching out of the grave is such a classic image it's like it's taken straight from the cover of an old E.C. horror comic! Also the violence is more graphic and chilling, with the diminutive terrors ambushing people in the dark and in their sleep, as a kid I almost wet my pants when the Driller gets that Patrick guy! And the scene where the puppets assault the hillbillies is a blast! The hefty woman might just be crazy enough to take them on if only they didn't have a freshly-constructed little walking furnace friend to help them out who promptly torches the bitch in the first of two impressively done full body burns! A puppet of iron, Torch is a great addition, I like the design of the Kaiser helmet head and bullet teeth. He's always so mad and ready to scorch at the slightest provocation! It's probably mean, but I love when he charbroils that kid who somehow manages to make himself so completely unsympathetic in his few minutes of screen time that you frankly can't wait! By far my favourite thing about this flick and what I personally feel holds it all together is the performance of Steve Welles as the reanimated Andrei Toulon who, while the spiteful and demented version of the character is a world apart from the kindly old man in other entries, is one that I enjoy tons more. He's way more interesting this way, he's an insane Toulon! Maybe half a century of being dead will do that to a guy.. I think the Puppet Master should be as frightening as the puppets themselves. I love all the scenes where it's just him and puppets. They can't talk back, but he does a great job of working with them and conveying all the back and fourths of it. I like the moment where he looks around his eerie chamber and settles on the old "Faust" poster and remembers the past. It captures the bizarre hell that this 'man' has wrought upon himself and is trapped in forever. He's so spooky just to look at. He's like a mummy, but also the Invisible Man, and he's looks like a zombie underneath his wrappings to boot - and he uses the fake name "Chainey"! I still find it downright mortifying when he puts his spirit into the horrifying dummy man! Jesus, those frozen blue eyes and that waxy skin, and when he makes that horrible noise still sends a chill down my spine to this day! I enjoy the plot of how he believes the woman to be the reincarnation of his long-dead wife and how at the end it turns out that he hasn't been quite entirely honest with his 'beloved' creations and betrays them. He's certainly making the alchemy that keeps them alive, but it won't be for them. To hell with the puppets, he wants his Ilsa again! And of course when they realise this the puppets rightly turn on their master in another scene of violent madness that sees him set on fire and sent plummeting to his third and hopefully final death! You look back on these kinds of horror movies and yeah they're 'cheesy' and 80s and all of that, but also with the ones that I like at least, they're still fun and they work, and I think this is because back then it was just about trying to make the best movie that you could with what you had, and this will always be a little classic to me, this and the first one are two of my favourite horror movies of all time. Thank you, you've been a wonderful audience!

A group of paranormal researchers visit the late Andre Toulon's palatial hotel on top of the cliff overlooking Bodega Bay, coming in contact with the deceased German creator's killer dolls, unfortunate for them. Stop motion effects maestro David Allen got his chance to sit in the director's chair for PUPPETMASTER II, the decision making sense considering it's more or less an f/x movie. Nita Talbot(haha, nice homage to THE WOLF MAN) is Camille, a mystic hired to possibly spot what science can not..mostly she spouts psycho-babble and mumbo jumbo, but she comes in useful when it's time for dolls to execute folks. Elizabeth Maclellan is Carolyn Bramwell, head of the research team, her brother Patrick(Gregory Webb)along with students Lance(Jeff Celentano) and Wanda(Charlie Spradling) also part of this group hoping to discover some sort of paranormal activity. What they do not expect is a resurrected Toulon(Steve Welles), under the disguise of Eriquee Chaneé, wearing bandages to hide his hideous visage due to the deterioration of his corpse(a hat and black cape paying obvious homage to THE INVISIBLE MAN), claiming he owns the property for which they are conducting research. Toulon allows this because Carolyn reminds him of his wife, Elsa. Michael(Collin Bernsen), an author of westerns, is Camille's son and when he is told she has "disappeared", he comes to the hotel resort to seek her out, falling in love with Carolyn in the process. Meanwhile, the puppets, including a new one called Torch(a blow torch on it's arm sets victims on fire), decide to take up where they left off from the previous movie, killing people. Their brains are of interest to Toulon for he needs the human material for a serum which keeps the puppets active and alive(including himself), but eventually the creations are offended that the dolls' creator would choose to have his Elsa(Carolyn)in a human-sized marionette form(there's also a male marionette version for himself)than to keep them restored and living. Dave Allen's creations are the real highlight of the Puppetmaster series and I think that's why there have been so many movies since 1989. The drill-head doll shows up momentarily to burrow a hole in a victim's forehead. Hook also gets in on the fun, slicing and stabbing, but most of his damage is done off screen. George "Buck" Flower and Sage Allen have supporting parts as a couple putting up electrical barb wire around their cabin which doesn't do any good.