The killer's staging victims as puppets—literally. Your 2003 direct-to-DVD nightmare awaits.
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. Two detectives are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell.
Practical Effects
Actual puppet corpses—someone built those
Acting
Philip Michael Thomas back from Miami Vice exile
Direction
Ace Cruz directing himself as doomed victim Mike
Director
Ace Cruz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ace Cruz's only feature directorial credit; he previously worked as a stunt coordinator, which explains the practical puppet effects.
This arrived during the post-Se7en wave of grimy serial killer procedurals that flooded direct-to-video shelves before streaming killed the market.
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