'Retro Puppet Master' (1999) - David DeCocteau.

After the insert-laden, somewhat less than dynamic 'Curse of the Puppet Master', the following origin story of the Puppet Master series is a profound improvement, seeing the entirely welcome return of Guy Wolfe introducing this historical instalment of our hell-raising, half-pint horrors! In a tense, fear-framed flashback, we see the youthful Andre Toulon, played with a winsome charm by the handsome Greg Sestero as he meets dying sorcerer Afzel (Jack Donner) and then mystically transforms Toulon's soon to be iconic terror troop from lifeless stringed puppets into tiny autonomous terror tykes Blade, Leech Woman, Six Shooter, Pin Head, and very soon Toulon will have to call upon his loyal diminutive death-dealers to courageously take on the macabre murder-minions of the vengeful Egyptian deity Sutekh whose apocalyptic hate readily spans the dizzying expanses of time and space itself! Inventive low-budget horror hero David DeCocteau's magical monster movie demonstratively proves yet again that it's not the size of the monster but what you do with it that counts!