The Puppetman (2023)
2/10
Nonsensical
14 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
By the time I finished this movie, I was more confused than I was satisfied. The plot seems simple enough; a girl has a demon or some other entity inside of her that can control people's actions, usually ending in their death.

We find out that the main character's parents tried to summon the thing, and it winds up inhabiting the main character. It seems like the parents start resenting her for this, I think, maybe because it didn't choose them? The entity makes her father kill her mother, and her father is put on death row, claiming that it wasn't him.

Okay, why did they try to summon it? What was their goal? Why did it matter that it used the main character as the host, and not them? They knew what this thing was, and they're upset anyway.

The main character finally comes to the conclusion that the thing just wants to be left alone. But that can't be true, because it's always making her do things that would draw attention to her. Does it have to kill to survive? Otherwise, why wouldn't it just behave itself so no one would know it was there?

What a waste of an hour and a half. A tepid horror movie, at best.
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