The Puppet Masters

1994

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 10421 10.4K

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Plot summary

The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.

Director

Stuart Orme Photo
Stuart Orme

Top cast

Marshall Bell Photo
Marshall Bell as General Morgan
Bruce Jarchow Photo
Bruce Jarchow as Barnes
Dale Dye Photo
Dale Dye as Brande
Will Patton Photo
Will Patton as Dr. Graves
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1001.95 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2
2.01 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by smatysia 7 / 10

A decent sci-fi flick

This was a decent sci-fi flick. Good performances by Julie Warner and Eric Thal, and of course there's no role that Donald Sutherland can't pull off. Alien effects were revoltingly good. OK, it's not completely true to Heinlein's magnificent novel. Hollywood has a formula, (the happy ending, the obligatory love interest of one or more of the stars, etc.) and any deviation from it is exceedingly rare. That's why foreign films are good, because they are not bound by the formula. I've noticed that great sci-fi movies are almost always originally written for the screen, rather than adapted from books. Books are always better than movies, but science fiction seems to be particularly so.
Reviewed by TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews 6 / 10

Not what it could have been, but worth a viewing

Not having read any of the highly acclaimed writer Robert A. Heinlein's work, including the original novel "Puppet Masters", I can't really comment on whether or not this piece does him or his work any justice, but from a point of view that hasn't in any way been influenced by his work or others' opinions(...maybe scratch that last one), I must admit that it's not half bad. The plot is pretty good, and it keeps developing at an adequate rate, while keeping a fair pace, but it seems to drop a tad once this entered its last half or so. The acting is decent enough, with Donald Sutherland being the one to stand out and deliver a marvelous performance. The characters are well-written, well-casted, credible and believable. This is strangely similar to TV features, in the way it's shot and edited. The special effects are great, but short of spectacular. The creature design was reasonably interesting, and well thought out, and the related effects are actually relatively nicely done. The science fiction aspects of this, with the aliens and their actions are well-done. I liked the way the film utilizes mood and atmosphere rather than excessive gore to scare and thrill the audience. The atmosphere and mood are decent enough, just not as well-done as they could have been. The movie also fails to inspire the same paranoia and fear that, for example, John Carpenter's The Thing does. Finally, the climax was a bit overly Hollywood-like, but hey, this does provide about 110 minutes worth of sufficiently entertaining science fiction-horror about the always dreaded extra-terrestrial invasion. I recommend it to fans of the genre and/or Donald Sutherland(it should also be noted that Keith David rocks, as he has something of a tendency to do). 6/10
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