{"id":373,"date":"2013-07-26T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=373"},"modified":"2013-08-25T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T15:59:10","slug":"attack-of-the-puppet-people-1958-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Puppet People (1958) – Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Attack of the Puppet People”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sally Reynolds is a young woman who is charmed into being a secretary by Mr. Franz, a lonely doll maker.\u00a0 Sally soon begins to realize that Mr. Franz isn’t quite what he seems.\u00a0 After her fiance, Bob, suddenly disappears, Sally shares his fate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

An amusing, but not very well done classic, B-Grade flick from Bert I. Gordon and American International to cash in on the success of\u00a0 “The Incredible Shrinking Man.” \u00a0 The acting is what one expects from these Golden Age B-Grades, adequate to the task.\u00a0 The effects are interesting but nothing that really stands out as impressive.<\/p>\n

The writing leaves something to be desired.\u00a0 The film starts slow, presumably to build the mystery and suspense, yet doesn’t.\u00a0 Once the film does start to pick up, it struggles to engage the viewer. \u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Franz comes across more as creepy (you know he’s up to something<\/em> inappropriate) rather than lonely and there was little that made me empathize with the characters.\u00a0 The “puppets” are stereotypes of each of the characters they represent, but they’re portrayed as defeated and pliable.\u00a0 Except of course for Sally and her fiance, Bob, who bring a spark of rebellion and fight for freedom.<\/p>\n

Something that I really didn’t like was a lack of conclusion.\u00a0 The film simply stopped, it didn’t really end.\u00a0 There was obviously more story that should have been told, yet it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

I gave this film 2 coffees.\u00a0 It was amusing, but I doubt I’ll ever feel the need to return to it.
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