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The Puppet Masters movie storyline. When a flying saucer reportedly lands in rural Iowa, The Old Man (who runs a secret branch of the CIA), decides to investigate. He goes in person, accompanied by agents Sam (who is the son of The Old Man) and Jarvis, as well as Dr. Mary Sefton, a NASA specialist in alien biology.
They find that aliens have indeed landed and are planning to use their mind-control powers to take over our planet. The aliens are slug-like creatures, and they are attaching themselves to people’s backs, taking control of their victims’ nervous systems, and manipulating those people as puppets.
The slugs spread steadily, and soon attack one of the agents, Sam. Controlling Sam, aliens almost possess the president, too, but are defeated by the agents. Agents then learn they can remove a slug by an electric shock, and free Sam from the possession of a slug. It is soon found out all slugs share a common conscience, a sort of a group mind.
The aliens quickly reproduce by division, soon controlling not only most of the population of the infested area, but also military personnel sent to the area to fight them. As agents learn where the aliens’ “hive” is located, they attempt to sneak in, and release Mary, whom aliens captured earlier. Together, they find surviving people whom slugs couldn’t possess. They take one of them, a boy, with them, leaving the hive.
The Puppet Masters is a 1994 science fiction film, adapted by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, and David S. Goyer from Robert A. Heinlein’s 1951 novel of the same title, in which a trio of American government agents attempts to thwart a covert invasion of Earth by mind-controlling alien parasites. The film was directed by Stuart Orme and stars Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, and Andrew Robinson.
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton, Tom Mason, Yaphet Kotto, Gerry Bamman, Sam Anderson, Bruce Jarchow, Benjamin Mouton
Screenplay by: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, David S. Goyer
Production Design by: Daniel A. Lomino
Cinematography by: Clive Tickner
Film Editing by: William Goldenberg
Costume Design by: Tom Bronson
Set Decoration by: Cloudia Rebar
Art Direction by: James Hegedus
Music by: Colin Towns
MPAA Rating: R for violence, sci-fi gore and brief language.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: October 21, 1994
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