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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its ordinary-man-in-an-extraordinary-scale nightmare shares Puppet People’s anxious miniaturization premise, but plays it with unusually vivid existential tension and clean, inventive visual effects.
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Why this pick
A secluded scientist turns visitors into tiny captives, delivering the same sinister collector-and-victims dynamic, colorful pulp-science imagery, and claustrophobic threat.
03
Why this pick
This macabre miniature-people tale combines eccentric science, uncanny doll-like bodies, and a darkly theatrical old-horror mood that anticipates Puppet People’s strangest pleasures.
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Why this pick
Also directed by Bert I. Gordon, it offers the same earnest atomic-age B-movie spirit and charmingly tactile scale effects, reversing the size-change premise into a tragic giant story.
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Why this pick
Gordon returns to outsized humanity, mixing military alarm, monster-pathos, and economical practical spectacle in the same late-1950s drive-in science-fiction register.
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01 / THE STORY
The film begins with a Brownie (Girl Guides) troop visiting a doll manufacturing company called Dolls Inc., owned and operated by the seemingly kindly Mr. Franz (John Hoyt). As the girls tour the factory, they see a number of very lifelike dolls stored in glass canisters locked in a display case on the wall. These are part of Mr. Franz’s special collection.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mr. Franz
Bob Westley
Sally Reynolds
Laurie
Mack
Stan
Janet Hall
Agnes
