Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Directed by

Bert Ira Gordon

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist shrinks people and keeps them as living dolls in a box. The tiny victims struggle to survive and escape from their captor.

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What happens

Attack of the Puppet People (retitled Six Inches Tall for its U.K. release) is a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. It stars John Agar, John Hoyt, and June Kenney. Gordon also supervised the film's special effects. American International Pictures released the film on June 30, 1958 as a double feature with War of the Colossal Beast (1958). (Historian Bill Warren lists the double feature's release date as August 7, 1958.) The film was rushed into production by AIP and Bert I. Gordon to capitalize on the popular success of Universal-International's The Incredible Shrinking Man, released the previous year in 1957. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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