Puppet Master:Axis Termination Movie Review

 

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Puppet Master:Axis Termination is a 2017 horror movie and the eleventh movie in the Puppet Master series. It is directed by Charles Band and stars George Appleby, Tonya Kay and Tania Fox.

The movie begins in Los Angeles, 1942. Danny and Beth get killed. Captain Brooks(Paul Logan) arrives and shoots their killer. Beth has some dying words for him. She asks him to take care of the puppets. Brooks goes to see General Hansard(Allen Perade) who tells him that he will be working with Dr. Ivanov(George Appleby). The General says that there is an army task force investigating magic and the occult. Ivanov is in charge of it. Cut to the Nazis and Doktor Gerde Ernst(Tonya Kay) is working with Sturmbahnfurher Steiner Krabke(Kevin Scott Allen)on experiments. They discover evil puppets.

 

Two guys are working at a power station when they see the werewolf puppet, Weremacht. It attacks one of them while another evil puppet, Bombshell, shoots the other guy. Gerda gets them to plant bombs in the power station and it is blown up. Ivanov has all of the other puppets. He has a daughter, Elisa(Tania Fox) and she has some psychic powers. Her father can sense emotions . He has a friend called Georgina Vale(Alynxia America) who possesses powers also. Dr. Ivanov tells Brooks that she is a witch. Elisa could see the puppets planting the bombs in her mind. She sees Gerda also. Krabke is torturing people. Gerda can sense Ivanov. She knows that he is working against her. She has a psychic called Madame Longpre. She is using her to search for Ivanov's location. He has a scroll that explains how to make the elixir the puppets need but he can't read it. He knows that Gerda will come for it.

Ivanov gives Brooks a rune to protect him. He is seeking Gerda, but he can't find her. Gerda tries to duplicate the elixir, but it is a failure. Madame Longpre locates them. Ivanov, Brooks and Georgina go to the power plant. They bring Blade with them. It is a trap and Krabke emerges from the darkness. He takes on Georgina first and she is no match for him. He catches all of them and he tells them he wants the puppets for himself. Gerda goes and catches Elisa. She has a helper called  Steitze(Kirsten Ostrenga) who has poisonous fingers. The puppets attack Gerda and Steitze steps in to stop them. She hurts Pinhead. The others are still at the power station. Leech Woman spits a leech onto Krabke's eye and blinds him. The others take the chance to escape. They get home to find Jester and Pinhead destroyed. Krabke loses his eye and he is angry. He wants to exchange the scroll and the elixir that Ivanov has for Elisa. Gerda has powers of her own. She is stronger than Krabke. The gang breaks into her lair and they encounter the bad puppets- Weremacht, Blitzkrieg and Bombshell.

Weremacht kills Madame Longpre after Gerda discovers that she was trying to help Elisa. Georgina meets her end also. Pinhead comes back and joins the fight. Gerda comes face to face with Ivanov.
Gerda talks to him about the puppets and she makes fun of them. Brooks and Pinhead take care of Krabke. Gerda orders the puppets to kill Ivanov. They turn against her and they kill her instead. Elisa, Brooks and Ivanov meet up. Ivanov destroys the evil that was Gerda and leaves. He puts all of the puppets back into their box and the movie ends.

 

This sequel wasn't bad. It finished up the story pretty well. I have enjoyed the sequels for the most part and I think that the Puppet Master franchise is decent. I have had fun making my way through them. I know that Blade has his own movie which I look forward to watching soon. This will be your cup of tea if you have been following the story and you want to know how it ends. I will give this a 5/10.