Definitely the worst Puppetmaster movie (so far) consisting as it does of shedloads of footage from the previous films in the franchise linked by a two person drama that doesn't make sense. The two actors in the framing story are quite underwhelming. Kate Orsini's attempts to be ruthless and cold come off as laughable and Jacob Witkin as Weiss is forgettable. He has a nice beard though. It tries to bring the previous seven movies into a coherent narrative which is impossible as there was poor continuity in the series anyway. Of the series so far the first and third films are superior to the rest. This one is a completely unnecessary movie.

The tagline 'Now the legacy can be told' is never fulfilled.

Directed by Charles Band and written by C. Courtney Joyner and David Schmoeller, the eighth Puppet Master movie takes us back to the Bodega Bay Inn where rogue agent Maclain (Kate Orsini) is reading the diary of André Toulon. I should write she was, as it soons goes up in flames.

In the basement, she finds Eric Weiss (Jacob Witkin) talking to Blade, Pinhead, Jester, Tunneler and Six-Shooter. She threatens him but he refuses to share the secrets of Toulon, but does play a recording from him.

Through flashbacks - and by that I mean footage from the older movies - we learn that Weiss is really Peter Hertz, the boy who Toulon saved from the Nazis in Puppet Master III. Then, the war between the puppets and the totems of Sutek in Puppet Master 4 and 5, as well as the events of Puppet Master 2 are remembered.

This is the final appearance of the original puppets created by David Allen and Dennis Gordon. They were sold at an auction one year after this movie.

Full Moon, I have to tell you, there are so many of your movies I've started and realized that I've seen before but you've repackaged them. There are only thirty minutes of new footage in this one. It's like a Puppet Master supercut. The greatest hits, sold by K-Tel?

The problem with Legacy isn't the fact that it the majority of it shows all the past movies with a very small subplot. The problem is that it was horribly edited and with a better storyline could have meshed the current situation with Peter and the previous story lines so much better. I'm actually kind of a fan of the idea to playback all the memories but the wrong scenes were shown and it didn't flow. It's not a good movie at all, the eighty percent of old scenes were boring and the new twenty percent were highlighted with a couple of horrible acting and more questions than answers. The lady agent is just horrendous and her story is completely far-fetched and laughable. I'd stay away from the movie or else just fast forward through the past events and check out the terribly cheesy plot that comes in and trickles out every so often. Since this is chronologically the last movie in the series I'm looking forward to the possibility of a franchise rejuvenation in the near future.