The Puppeteer
This wry and trickily plotted feature from writer-director Jacky St. James lives up to her very high standard.
It opens with a scene that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie but lays out the theme. Syren DeMer plays a convicted killer who runs down the four rules of how to commit a perfect murder. We see her having volcanic sex with her husband of 15 years, played by Sean Michaels. They both come like crazy and then she shoots him dead.
Then begins the main story, which involves a sexy shrink (India Summer), her “psycho-journal”-keeping lover (Small Hands), a savvy homicide detective (Logan Pierce) and his very curious girlfriend (Kristen Scott).
Plot elements include — besides murder — a multi-million dollar lottery ticket, a wife who wants her husband dead and her boyfriend’s blonde girlfriend (Kenna James).
Summer and Hands have a barn-burner of a boff. Even better is a sensual kitchen encounter between Scott and Pierce, in which Kristen appears to actually orgasm — for real and often, almost wearing out her strong partner.
The five principals are all good actors, so the story is believable, if maybe a bit too intricate for its fairly short running length. But the twist ending is well set up and convincing and does answer the question, “Who is the puppeteer?”
A young woman's interest in a murder case evolves into a series of twists and turns of who-done-it. Grace, a woman with a fascination for crime and criminology, finds herself sucked in by her boyfriend's current homicide case involving Ethan, an emotionally fragile man and the murder of his therapist, Hannah's husband. On the outside, it looks like an open and shut case, but as Grace works to unravel all of the intricate details herself, she narrows in on another suspect. Although it seems like Hannah is might have found the real killer, everything is turned upside down and who is telling the truth and who is lying seems harder than ever to discern.
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