Let My Puppets Come

Gerard Damiano should be one of the richest filmmakers in history. He brought porn into the mainstream with the smash hit Deep Throat in 1972, but with the mafia running the distribution and most of the industry he was cut out of all its financial success. In 1976, seven films later he wrote and directed the X-rated puppet film "Let My Puppets Come". The title is a parody of the Broadway musical "Let My People Come."

  The "Creative Concepts, Systems and Procedures, Brothers Unlimited, INC."(The CCSPBU) is broke and out of ideas. To make matters worse they owe half a million dollars to Mr. Big and only have 24 hours to get the money. I wonder if the storyline was inspired by Damiano's dealings and frustrations with the mob? Luckily, Jimmy the mailman who delivered the bad news offers a solution, that they make a porno film in order to get quick cash!

THE CAST

Left to Right - Jimmy, Red, Fred, and Ned

Can't forget Gramps!

The CCSPBU is made of Red, Fred, Ned, Gramps, and their secretary Mrs. Bliss.(Clitoris Leechman).They  immediately begin coming up with ideas. Jimmy offers a tale of beastiality where a lonely women's dog takes advantage of her. Red thinks of recreating the popular horny nurse fantasy and Gramps comes up with a massage parlor idea where a happy ending is sure to take place. Ned wants to do a movie about a blow fish that actually sucks you off while swimming in the ocean.When the brainstorming session is over Fred decides before they go any further they need to cover the technical side of the film. Jimmy visits one of his old buddies Lash, an ex-videographer in the porn industry and now a local sex shop owner. He reluctantly agrees to help. Gramps calls up an old director buddy named Japetto. Now all they need are some actors. Their secretary Mrs. Bliss demands an audition but sadly they discover she has a penis. Luckily the director Japetto is the same Japetto who created the famous Pinocchio or in this case Pornocchio so he is able to build new puppets to act in the film.

Every position is Doggy Style

The Head Nurse

Happy Ending?

Deep Trout

Now that the cast has been put together(literaly) and they've recorded some footage, Japetto and the d.p. Lash begin fighting over many of the artistic choices forcing them both to quit. But before Japetto walks off the set one of his actresses Diana Boss sings him a little ditty. Telling him to "Smile at your Heartache"'and "Laugh at the Blues"', we hear this in its entirety, padded out with footage of the beach cutting to kids, dogs, and seagulls. This is the dullest part of the film by far, but still adds to the overall strangeness of the movie.

Now CCSPBU inc. is forced to finish the film on their own. Before thinking of an end they decide to pad  it out with x-rated commercial parodies.
Such as "Climax" watches "They take a lickin' and keep on tickin'"
Sweet Fish a Vaginal Deodorant commercial that features Viju Krem who played the fabulous Natasha Di Natalie in Bloodsucking Freaks.
And the infamous Al Goldstein spoof "Lusterine" Mouthwash.

Add for Climax watches

Sweet Fish add

The face of a man getting sucked off by a puppet.

The movie is just about in the can, but will it succeed? Mr. Big has arrived and is ready to collect. Mr. Big is played by another Bloodsucking Freaks cast member, Luis De Jesus aka Ralphus, the sadistic symbol pounding little person. He also played an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, but he was kicked out of the tribe for throwing darts at Princess Leia's ass. Luckily the film's fluffer jumps on Mr. Big giving him a BJ and that gives the boys time to escape.

"Aren't you the sinful dwarf?"

I actually give Damiano a lot of credit for this film. It's often compared to Peter Jackson's far superior Meet The Feebles (not to many puppet sex films around) but they are quite different. Let My Puppets Come seems to have more of a Muppet parody feel because of the human and puppet interaction, the movie was actually released when the first season of the Muppet Show debuted. The segments in the film come across in the same way that Kermit and the gang would interact with the weekly special guest star, except far more perverted. It's hard to say if Peter Jackson was influence by this film . Feebles came out over ten years later. One could say that Pornocchio liked to stick his nose certain places and Feeble Dennis has a scene featuring "nasal" sex with cow.

Choda Boy in his Golden years

"I can hear you Coming!"

Dennis Does Daisy from Meet the Feebles

Somebody! Please release this properly with all the bonus features, shed some light on this sleazy little oddity. This is the cult film that never really was because the VHS was hidden in the back behind those western style swinging doors with all the porn. Perhaps with more exposure it would have been more popular. For God's sake just LET MY PUPPETS COME

8/10 on the CULT-O-METER

Not on wikipedia and not on IMDB (June 12th 2003) but note in the credits there is a tune by none other than Alan "Back to the Future" Silvestri. He scored and conducted "All American Boy", the tune where Pornocchio becomes a real porn star. Hey, it's the best song in the film! So Alan, don't be embarrassed add to your IMDB resume.

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Black Devil Doll from Hell

Only $3.50!

  Right off the bat you get an opening title sequence with a 6 minute and 50 second theme song. It sounds like a rejected track from the Butthole Surfers' Album Hairway to Steven.(which for me is a good thing)

Our heroine of the film, Helen Black is played by the fearless Shirley L Jones. A typical day for Helen seems to be going to church and getting harassed by an annoying friend always trying to convince her that she needs a man so she can get laid. But being the good christian woman that she is the advice is rejected. This particular day she is also bothered by a dude selling TVs and other goods out of the truck of his car and he makes some sexual advances of his own that are denied. Later she decides to visit the Road's End Gift Shop where she is intrigued by what looks like a black "My Buddy" Doll from the 80s with dreads. The shop keeper tells her that the doll has been purchased 4 times already and always finds its way back to the store sooner or later.

"Would you like this gift wrapped?"

Helen buys the doll and after she gets it home weird things begin to happen. For instance, now when she showers she touches herself.(sounds normal to me) These scenes in the shower are the most frightening in the film. The next day or so the doll is talking and walking. The puppet uses his demon magic to possess and rape her. He explains that "Before he can give her pleasure he must first give her pain." He also calls her "bitch" a lot. The real surprise comes when he's standing at the end of the bed and in homage to "The Shining" says "Here's Johnny!". You can always count on a little comic relief from a puppet, even before he rapes you.

"Think you got enough soap? Bitch!"

"It's Howdy Booty Time!"

Helen has now gone from a church going model citizen to a dirty whore. She can't get enough of the doll's burnt bacon lookin' tongue.But now that she's insatiable the puppet decides it's time to dip and heads back to his place at the gift shop. Helen is now spreading her legs for anyone she meets but she's never satisfied like she was with her devil doll. She purchases the doll a second time but only to discover negative consequences!(to say the least)

"Your place or mine?"

"Get me some visine, quick."

Yes, earlier I called the lead actress fearless but maybe she owed the director Chester Turner a shitload of money to star in this shot-on-"shit"eo classic.
This movie can not be recommended, either it will be a 0 or a 10 depending on your taste.
I give it a 7/10 on the CULT-O-METER because it has survived the test of time and actually spawned a rad remake in 2007 buy director Jonathan Louis Lewis. Long Live Black Devil Doll!!!!!

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What if Lions Gate Films bought the rights and marketed the film 

as a Tyler Perry movie????

Watch and find out what it would look like! 

 

Marquis

Marquis. Directed by Henri Xhonneux starring creepy animal/ human hybrids (1989)
     There have been many film interpretations, plays, songs based on the perverted works of Marquis Desade, but nothing  comes close to the weirdness presented in this all puppet presentation. Skunkape mentioned and I agree that there should be an English dubbed version to fully enjoy the scary puppet faces without having to read all the French.
     Quills and this film follow the same story line and its basically Meet The Feebles done with historical attention to detail. In fact there's too much detail going on and no one looking for this level of surreal weirdness would have the attention span to commit to this nonsense!     
     Roland Topor who did the production design for La Planete Sauvage was involved in this project and also wrote the novel for the brilliant Polanski film The Tenant. There's a talking penis that has a human brain and commands its Dog/Gelfling faced owner to write. sometimes it wears a wig and a little French Revolution outfit in a little guillotine. The different animal faces are meant to represent racial stereotypes in the same vein as Art Spiegelman's Maus. I hate to compare it to that genius graphic novel, but that's the only relevant connection I can think of that used different races as animals. In Marquis there are chickens, camels,pigs, rats, cows, fish, dogs and horse faced women and its all very distressing.
     After awhile you get used to the hideous puppets and you start to pay attention to the storyline, the effect wears off, but then they bash you over the head with overtly sexual antics that skeeved me out! Dog faced DeSade at one point has sex with a wall and its eyes open, scary! A chicken faced man gets a chew job (I'll let you guess what that is!) and his voice speeds up!
     Marquis Desade  locked up in The Bastille prison impresses a cow faced girl with his disgusting porn writing (which is illustrated with claymation butts and other bizarre shit)!
His penis feels betrayed and wants to escape! The cow girl is tortured for having sympathy for Desade and milked by the chicken man. This is the kind of film I would have been mentally scarred for life had I seen it as a child and hopefully no kids watch it online by accident!
     The complete version is on youtube, but unfortunately is only in French or with Spanish subs and the english version has subs that take over the screen! The whole thing is so depraved and ridiculous that its difficult to take anything too seriously. This take on Marquis Desade is sympathetic and its pretty creepy and of course pornographic. The film makers are asking too much for anyone to pay attention to a political storyline while delivering weird bestiality sex with puppets, its completely insane! Then again why is someone as demented, respected as a liberator in some circles. To portray Desade as a champion of free expression through horrifying puppets is sort of genius. I need to sit down and take some advil after this review!
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