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| Retro Puppet Master | |
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| Directed by | David DeCoteau |
| Written by | Charles Band Benjamin Carr David Schmoeller |
| Produced by | Charles Band Kirk Edward Hansen Vlad Paunescu Dana Scanlan Mona C. Vasiloiu |
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| Cinematography | Viorel Sergovici |
| Edited by | Don Adams |
| Music by | John Massari |
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| Distributed by | The Kushner-Locke Company Full Moon Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Retro Puppet Master (also known as Retro Puppetmaster) is a 1999 American direct-to-video horror film written by Charles Band, Benjamin Carr and David Schmoeller, and directed by David DeCoteau (as Joseph Tennent). It is the seventh film in the Puppet Master franchise, a prequel to 1991's Toulon's Revenge, and stars Greg Sestero as a young André Toulon, Jack Donner as an Egyptian responsible for teaching Toulon how to animate his puppets, and Stephen Blackehart, Robert Radoveanu and Vitalie Bantas as demons who pursue Toulon for his magic.
While Retro serves to explain how Toulon began practicing the spell which animates his puppets, it ignores what was originally established in the second film as exactly how he learned the spell of animation. The film was also Guy Rolfe's final appearance as Toulon, save for flashback footage in The Legacy.
A spin-off based on a puppet from the movie was released in 2022.