Curse of the Puppet Master is a 1998 direct-to-video horror film written by Benjamin Carr and directed by David DeCoteau.

[2] The film begins at The House of Marvels, a doll museum, where Dr. Magrew stuffs something into a crate before driving into the woods and setting it on fire.

The next morning, Magrew's daughter Jane, who has just returned home from college, asks her father about his assistant Matt.

He tells her that Matt left because his father was ill. Driving into town, Magrew and Jane interrupt bully Joey Carp harassing Robert Winsley at a gas station.

The next day, Jane and Robert drive to the woods, where they find the box that Magrew burnt at the beginning of the film.

Robert confesses that he felt a strange feeling while he was choking Joey, and Magrew tells him it was his violent inner self.

Jane discovers that her father has not ordered any new dolls for six months, and returns to the woods to examine the burned box.

Suddenly, the Tank puppet points its arm at Magrew and shoots him dead with a bolt of electricity.