Synopsis
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree.
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Cast
- Thomas LennonEdgar Easton
- Jenny PellicerAshley Summers
- Michael ParéDetective Brown
- Barbara CramptonCarol Doreski
- Udo KierAndre Toulon
- Nelson FranklinMarkowitz
- Charlyne YiNerissa
- Alex BehHowie
- Charles "Skeeta" JenkinsCuddly Bear
- Anne BeyerHedwig Wagner
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
What makes this latest installment such a riot — apart from having more money than usual, thereby allowing the practical special effects to achieve a splattery early–Peter Jackson glee — is its original script by "Brawl in Cell Block 99’s" S. Craig Zahler. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Between the punchy dialogue, the skilled cast (some comic actors, some genre stalwarts) and the impressive animation, “The Littlest Reich” is good, sick fun. It’s got puppets, it’s got gore. Who could ask for anything more? - 58
The Film Stage
Littlest Reich is almost passionately gory. It’s essentially a series of murders, strung together by the most simplistic method imaginable: a cut. - 50
Slant Magazine
It all feels cheap and looks cheap, a far cry from what S. Craig Zahler can do when overseeing both a film's words as well as its images. - 50
The A.V. Club
It’s gnarly as hell. - 50
The New York Times
While you don’t require familiarity with the dozen or so earlier titles to enjoy this one, you do require a sense of humor that’s easily triggered and a gag reflex that isn’t. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The leads all take this as seriously as possible, and Lennon goes the extra mile by investing scenes with Edgar's parents with believable emotional baggage. - 50
IGN
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich almost works. The dialogue and performances are unusually good for this kind of material, and the gore effects are shocking. But the changes the filmmakers made to this franchise have unpleasant consequences, which dramatically reduce the film's entertainment value, and arguably rob these iconic puppets of the very characteristics that made them special.
