** minor spoilers ** Despite the fact there is really no "Attack" and the "puppets" are really people, the film is a bit of a rip-off of the more successful Incredible Shrinking Man.
The plot is quick and predictable. A toymaker whose wife had left him many years ago learns how to shrink people to six inches tall. He does this so that he won't be alone. This man is Mr. Franz, played seriously by John Hoyt, a character actor whose been in all kinds of sci-fi, from the crazy rich guy in a wheelchair in "When Worlds Collide" to the doctor in the pilot episode of Star Trek.
Franz keeps running out of secretaries (shrinking them and putting them in bottles is bad for business) and so he hires another one; blonde and alone like him. She falls for Bob (John Agar, whose appeared in many cheesy scifi flicks of the 50s).
Bob does the right thing: he proposes marriage in a drive-in which is playing "Attack of the Colossal Man" (through an incredible coincidence this film was also directed by Bert I. Gordon, the same director as "Attack of the Puppet People.").
As the police close in, Franz decides on a murder-suicide but the little people will have none of it.
The plot fades, we never learn the fate of the other shrunken people and Franz stands in a lab, alone -- the worst fate! Plot holes galore: How did a toymaker, doll manufacturer and part-time puppeteer find the skills and knowledge to create an advanced scientific device that shrinks organic matter? Why did he waste this on people when he could have made a mint as a respected scientist? And what happened to the other shrunken people who escaped into the theater? You'll have to watch to find out!
The plot is quick and predictable. A toymaker whose wife had left him many years ago learns how to shrink people to six inches tall. He does this so that he won't be alone. This man is Mr. Franz, played seriously by John Hoyt, a character actor whose been in all kinds of sci-fi, from the crazy rich guy in a wheelchair in "When Worlds Collide" to the doctor in the pilot episode of Star Trek.
Franz keeps running out of secretaries (shrinking them and putting them in bottles is bad for business) and so he hires another one; blonde and alone like him. She falls for Bob (John Agar, whose appeared in many cheesy scifi flicks of the 50s).
Bob does the right thing: he proposes marriage in a drive-in which is playing "Attack of the Colossal Man" (through an incredible coincidence this film was also directed by Bert I. Gordon, the same director as "Attack of the Puppet People.").
As the police close in, Franz decides on a murder-suicide but the little people will have none of it.
The plot fades, we never learn the fate of the other shrunken people and Franz stands in a lab, alone -- the worst fate! Plot holes galore: How did a toymaker, doll manufacturer and part-time puppeteer find the skills and knowledge to create an advanced scientific device that shrinks organic matter? Why did he waste this on people when he could have made a mint as a respected scientist? And what happened to the other shrunken people who escaped into the theater? You'll have to watch to find out!