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Very well executed

Better than most people think

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This movie contains no puppets, puppet people or attacks but why should a movie title make sense? The story isn't great but the special effects are good for the 50s.

Released in 1958 and shot in B&W, "Attack of the Puppet People" chronicles the story of a lonely doll maker (John Hoyt) who shrinks people to 1/6 their size to presumably play god. June Kenney plays his winsome secretary, John Agar a man interested in romancing her and Jack Kosslyn a police officer who investigates the curious goings-on.The title is inaccurate and should've been called "Attack of the Doll Maker," but I guess that wouldn't have been attractive. In any case, this is a well done late 50's sci-fi/horror flick. I appreciate that the material is taken seriously and you can't help but sympathize with the doll maker. But this doesn't negate the perverseness of what he's doing. His actions are akin to Big Government advocates who want to restrict more & more freedoms and provide everything for citizens. Some fall under their spell while others do everything in their power to escape.The movie runs 79 minutes. GRADE: B

** minor spoilers ** Despite the fact there is really no "Attack" and the "puppets" are really people, the film is a bit of a rip-off of the more successful Incredible Shrinking Man.The plot is quick and predictable. A toymaker whose wife had left him many years ago learns how to shrink people to six inches tall. He does this so that he won't be alone. This man is Mr. Franz, played seriously by John Hoyt, a character actor whose been in all kinds of sci-fi, from the crazy rich guy in a wheelchair in "When Worlds Collide" to the doctor in the pilot episode of Star Trek.Franz keeps running out of secretaries (shrinking them and putting them in bottles is bad for business) and so he hires another one; blonde and alone like him. She falls for Bob (John Agar, whose appeared in many cheesy scifi flicks of the 50s).Bob does the right thing: he proposes marriage in a drive-in which is playing "Attack of the Colossal Man" (through an incredible coincidence this film was also directed by Bert I. Gordon, the same director as "Attack of the Puppet People.").As the police close in, Franz decides on a murder-suicide but the little people will have none of it.The plot fades, we never learn the fate of the other shrunken people and Franz stands in a lab, alone -- the worst fate! Plot holes galore: How did a toymaker, doll manufacturer and part-time puppeteer find the skills and knowledge to create an advanced scientific device that shrinks organic matter? Why did he waste this on people when he could have made a mint as a respected scientist? And what happened to the other shrunken people who escaped into the theater? You'll have to watch to find out!

For decades I knew of an old film called - Attack Of The Puppet People - but I had no knowledge of what it was all about and I could not get my hands on a copy to find out: not until December 2010.I thought I had seen all the old Hollywood sci-fi films about "little people" in a giant land and to my surprise I find this little gem of a movie. Fans of Irwin Allen's Land Of The Giants (1968) series must see this film. Many ideas and action scenes from Land Of The Giants were taken from this film. In fact, it is almost a little depressing to discover that Land Of The Giants was less original than I always thought it was.Yes, in this movie we have a group of attractive "little" men and women who talk to each other, laugh with each other, climb down giant tables, get chased by giant wild animals, deal with fantastic hardware, deal with an oddball "giant" (John Hoyt)...just like the Land Of The Giants cast would later do in the 1960s and early 1970s.Land Of The Giants did it with better music scores (by John Williams, Richard LaSalle, etc) and a bigger budget but Attack Of The Puppet People did it first. This is a must see movie!