Let My Puppets Come

Director– Gerard Damiano

Starring – Luis DeJesus, Al Goldstein


Country of Origin- U.S.

Distributor - Vinegar Syndrome

Number of Discs - 2

Reviewed by - Scott MacDonald

Date- 09/02/2019

    Back during the dawn of DVD, I was going through what I'll underplay as a bit of a Troma phase. During this time I bought insane amounts of Troma's DVD product, oddly from Best Buy of all places. One of those DVD's was the 1976 sleaze classic, Bloodsucking Freaks. This film became an instant favorite (and still is).  The DVD had a commentary track from a young pre-fame Eli Roth, since Joel Reed and Troma had a falling out shortly after the release of Bloodsucking Freaks, and would not participate.  

    In the commentary Roth makes  reference to Luis DeJesus, the actor who played Ralphus in Bloodsucking Freaks, and mentioned DeJesus in another sleaze film, Let My Puppets Come. For some reason the mere mention of that title sent me into a frenzy to get a copy anyway I could. It look some time, but I managed to get a tape, and was able to see the insanity for myself. I thought Peter Jackson's early Meet the Feebles was crazy, until I got this film.

   The film follows the mis-adventures of the members of Creative Concepts Systems. A company that has hit a snag, and now owes money to the mob. In order to pay back the Mafia hoods that have a price on their puppet heads, they take the advice of Jimmy, their delivery boy, and make an explicit porno. The group hires a fetish specialist, and a director, and get to work, but will the movie come out fast enough for the boys to pay back the mob? Watch it and find out.

    Let My Puppets Come is directed by Gerard Damiano most well known as the director of the infamous Deep Throat. This film eschews actual sex for puppet sex, and musical numbers, and creates something absolutely wild, that must be seen. The puppet work isn't exactly quality, but it doesn't matter as the overtone and content are so over the top it stands above technical issues. Damiano directs the film, simply, but solidly and keeps the whole piece flowing from one weird set piece to the next.   There are also performances from the aforementioned DeJesus as as appearances by Annie Sprinkle, and Al Goldstein.

    Vinegar Syndrome presents Let My Puppets Come in a very solid 1:85:1 1080p AVC encoded transfer. Everything on display here looks natural, and quite excellent. There are instances where their is slight damage, but the transfer here looks quite amazing, well detailed, with a solid grain structure. Audio is handled by a DTS-HD MA track in English that sounds similarly solid, and without noticeable issues. Extras include a fantastic commentary by Heather Drain and Samm Deighan, who were pretty much put on this Earth to do a commentary for this film. We get a conversation with the puppeteers behind the film, as well as film historian.  Archival audio  from a musical production called Kumquats which inspired this film. Also, an audio conversation with the director of Kumquats plus a trailer.