[Doc Faustus]

I don't think Puppetmaster is by any means a high watermark for the genre. Videodrome? The Black Cat? The Wicker Man? Daughters of Darkness? Gojira? The Seventh Victim? The genre is far too diverse for it to be reduced to Saw and Puppet Master. What to expect is insight into the things that scare us, into the harsh and dirty parts of our life to understand our challenges or feel that somebody else is scared of the same things we are and reach out and connect. When I watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I think "thank god somebody else sees that America looks like this, thank god people get to look at this place." Horror ranges from the Night Town episode of Ulysses to Du Maurier's Rebecca to the Lodger to Carlton Mellick's Baby Jesus Buttplug to Naked Lunch. There's a world of experience and a world of fears and insights to share. These movies are worth it, but not most of the Puppetmaster series. That said Puppetmaster 3 is kinda cool.