Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

AaronCapenBanner John Hoyt plays a lonely(and deranged) doll-maker who has invented a shrinking machine, and has systematically been shrinking various people he keeps in suspended animation, and revives when he wants company. His newest victims are his secretary Sally(played by June Kenny) and her fiancée Bob(played by John Agar) who are not going to accept this bizarre situation without a fight, and so lead an escape attempt. Obvious rip-off of "The Incredible Shrinking Man" has a good performance from Hoyt, but shoddy F/X and a ridiculous story, with few believable reactions from the characters because of the thin plot. Directed by Bert I. Gordon.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Director Bert I. Gordon went from making movies about 60 foot giants like "The Amazing Colossal Man" to 6 inch human puppets in "The Attack of the Puppet People" within the space for a year in order to show his versatility as a film maker. Unlike in Gordon's "Colossal Man" where Glenn Manning went nuts when he found out that he'll never return to his original size in the "Puppet People" the diminutive human beings came to their senses and revolted against the person who made them small doll manufacture Dr. Franz, John Hoyt, by making him pay for what he did to them.Lead by super salesman Bob Weshey,John Agar, and his fiancée Sally Reynolds, June Kennedy, Franz's secretary the puppets revolted against their master Mr.Franz when they found out that the crazy and mixed up guy was planning to do them in together with himself after an encore performance of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" that they were to star, as puppeteers, in! Franz who thought that he was in fact loved by his puppets got the surprise of his life when he found out that they in fact hated his guts!It was with this cockamamie device that he invented, a hopped up photo enlarger, that changes and rearranges a persons molecular structure that Franz was able to turn full size human beings into six inch puppets. Fraz came up with this idea after his old lady checked out on him back in Luxembourg with an acrobat at the circus that he, with his puppet show, was preforming in! Feeling alone and unwanted Franz felt that turning people into puppets or dolls would fill the gap or void of loneliness that he got when his old lady left him. Instead it turned him into a crazed and power driven maniac who not only threatened the lives of those whom he was in control of, his puppets, but both his own life, and sanity, as well! That he was more then ready to throw away together with his live puppets before the cops and men with the white suites and butterfly nets broke into his secret laboratory! And thus took his away in a straight jacket to the nearest mental institution for both treatment and mental observation!

Mark Honhorst Sheesh, what a misleading title! The people don't ever attack, they aren't really puppets, and the actors are so wooden, they more closely resemble trees than actual human beings. Not only do they not attack, they spend most of the film running away from a creepy mad puppeteer (instead of a scientist,for a change)who turns them into teeny weenie people to play with, and bears a striking resemblance to an evil Mr.Rogers. The only good thing about this Bert I. Gordon Trashterpiece is the evil guy, who is surprisingly interesting because he shrinks people and holds them against their will in order to hold off the loneliness from his wife leaving him(or at least I think it was something to do with his wife, I can hardly remember). The ending was a complete letdown, even though the last line almost makes you care about the evil dude. The ending was completely devoid of action, drama, or , you know, anything else that makes cinema interesting.

johnc2141 As many times as i watch attack of the puppet people,i enjoy it every time.its one of those fun American international pictures from the fabulous fifties.although not as good or as expensive as incredible shrinking man its brilliance on a shoestring budget,great b-movie actors;John Agar(tarantula,revenge of the creature)John Hoyt(x the man with x-ray eyes)June Kenney(earth vs the spider)and yes Hank Patterson(Zeb on green acres)i enjoyed the 50's music and soundtrack from the late great;Albert Glasser.who scored many great 50's movies. OK the plot really simple a meek mad doll maker(Hoyt)hires secretaries and shrinks them to doll size,not to mention others like a teen queen,a marine,and even a cat.he shrinks the mailman but you never see him after he is shrunk.the mad doll maker keeps him in his jar i guess. well there are some good props and good special effects from b-movie maker;Bert I Gordon like a giant rat,cat and dog.this movie was originally shown on a double bill with the amazing colossal man. from the b-movie kings at A.I.P.(James H Nicholson and Samuel Z Arkoff) too bad its a short movie.Micheal Mark is also in this movie as the mad doll makers friend from Germany,a puppeteer.Micheal Mark was in the original Frankenstein,and later in the wasp woman.a great character actor.i know most critics would think I'm crazy for giving this 8 out of 10,but ill say this,to each his(or her)own.puppet people is a fun movie.