Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)

Director
Charles Band

Main cast
Jacob Witkin; Kate Orsini

Genres
Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Description
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.


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