Puppet Master X: Axis Rising

Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012)

The Battle is over. The War has just begun!

After foiling a plan to blow up an American arms plant, Danny and Beth quickly find that one of Toulon's puppets has been kidnapped by the Nazis, and his life-giving serum has been synthesized to create a master race of unstoppable soldiers.

Date of release
2012-09-15
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (73)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Horror, War
Director
Charles Band
Collection
Puppet Master Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Puppet Master X: Axis Rising is a 2012 American horror film and is the tenth entry in the Puppet Master film series. Produced and directed by Charles Band, it is a direct sequel to 2010's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil and introduces new puppets named Blitzkrieg, Bombshell, Kamikaze, and Weremacht, who fight alongside the Nazis. Puppet Master X: Axis Rising was released on October 9, 2012, by Full Moon Features. A sequel, Puppet Master: Axis Termination, was released in 2017.

Production

Following a four-year hiatus after Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys, a trilogy of prequels set during World War II was announced in August 2008, with the first film, Puppet Master: Axis of Evil, released in 2010. In October 2011, the second film was announced under the working title Puppet Master Forever. The title was eventually changed to Puppet Master X: Axis Rising.

The film was written by newcomer Shane Bitterling. Bitterling had met Full Moon founder Charles Band during a memorial service for fellow screenwriter Domonic Muir, who had written the previous film and died in September 2010. Bitterling helped Band with some of Muir's unfinished scripts and became his first choice to write the next Puppet Master film.

Bitterling was instructed not to include the Ninja puppet from Axis of Evil, as Band stated, "We're not using the ninja. Nobody liked that one." The character Bombshell was based on an unused puppet from the canceled Puppet Wars spin off series. Kip Canyon and Jean Louise O'Sullivan were recast as Danny and Beth, replacing Levi Fiehler and Jenna Gallaher.

The film was heavily restricted by budget constraints. Scenes intended to take place in large spaces were instead shot in small rooms, and without the involvement of any stop-motion animators, the puppets' movement was limited.

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