Blade the Iron Cross

This marks the 10oth Puppet Master film. Not sure why they would go the name change, it's not like it's going to do them any favors and itll cause this film to fly under the radar more than it would being labeled the billionth PM film.

This time around Elisa returns and has the puppets and is using her psychic dreams as a reporter in the early 1900s to help stop a Nazi scientist in America from reproducing the formula for the puppets and reverse engineering it for his army of zombies... Blade is the only puppet juiced up enough to help due to lack of the syrum.

Overall... it has some pretty bad acting, but it somehow manages to remain entertaining enough to watch. I wasn't bored or rolling my eyes, it is what it is and reminded me of some nostalgic effects not seen for a while.

Tania Fox is about the only decent actor in this, and quite stunning. I hope to see her in more PM films.

Blade: The Iron Cross isn't the worst Puppet Master film so far - that dubious honour goes to the absolutely awful Puppet Master The Legacy - but it's close.

Tania Fox plays psychic newspaper reporter Elisa, who teams up with cop Joe Gray (Vince Cusimano), and puppet Blade, to take on the Nazis, who are planning to turn the US population into violent zombies using a death ray.

With an approximate budget of just $90,000, The Iron Cross looks and feels incredibly cheap, with lousy special effects and some of the worst green screen work I have seen in a recent film. The acting is atrocious and the direction ham-fisted. About the only positive things I can say about the whole film are that Tania Fox spends quite a lot of the time naked and the runtime is mercifully short - just 70 minutes.

The next film in the series, Puppet Master: Doktor Death, is also very short, which makes me wonder just how bad that is -- guess I'll find out soon enough.

Blade: The Iron Cross (2020) is available on Amazon Prime for $6.99. The story focuses around a journalist who has a telekinetic connection with an infamous puppet from Puppet Master, Blade. Together they try to stop the Germans from creating a death ray. This movie officially makes my top 3-4 worst Puppet Master films. The storyline, acting and execution are awful. John Lechago (Killjoy 3-5) directed and really disappointed me with this film. The kill scenes were okay but nothing else was worthwhile. The cast includes Tania Fox (Puppet Master Axis trilogy), Vincent Cusimano (Betrayed), Roy Abrahamson (Betrayed) and Angelica Briones (John Henry) and none of them deliver memorable performances. Overall this is very disappointing and only worth watching for diehard fans of Puppet Master. I'd give this a 3/10.

Would have been made in 1960 by Mario Bava Would have been a masterpiece

Special effects are very dated And acting amatorial A part from the main woman The idea and storyline is quite good

Might be a remake in future with bigger budgets

Please, We've had enough Nazi movies. We get it. Nazi = bad. Move on. This has been done to death. It's hard to fault the cast, as they were fed a script that must have been extremely difficult to derive motivation from, but I'm not sure I would be excited to watch this a second time if a years salary were offered to view its entirety.