| April Duval | |
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Appearances |
Puppet Master: Doktor Death |
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Actor |
Jenny Boswell |
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Status |
Alive |
April Duval is a young woman from California that moved to a small mysterious town in an effort to search for a secret person. She started working as a nurse at the Shady Oaks Senior Living nursing home where she was warm welcomed by Dr. Lantmen, Carmen and their team. Her first day started bad as she witnessed resident Maximilian Cuda's corpse being carried out on a stretcher, but she kept high spirits and became a hard working and caring nurse and bonded well with all the residents. Her first duty was to clean out Max's old belongings, as he had no living relatives and it is here that she meets her fellow co-workers Ryan, Flynn and Jennifer.
Ryan and April immediately start getting very close and it looks like they are both having strong feelings to each other, which makes Flynn jealous. The two of them find an old treasure chest with a padlock on it in Max's belongings and they decide to open it up. Inside they find a mysterious antique Dr. Death skull puppet and Flynn takes it for his own as he plans to sell it at an auction. During this time April starts to read a book on haunted dolls and companionship with them, as she has a bizarre curiosity of befriending a haunted doll, but she keeps this hobby of hers secret from everyone else.
During her stay at the hotel there is several deaths, but her team assure her that the residents died of natural causes. At one point she is startled by seeing the deceased resident Dorothy Beaumont looking in through the window at her, which couldn't be possible as she was dead. This caused April to faint and have horrific dreams about the Dr. Death puppet being alive. April would notice that the puppet would be in different places all the time, but she would assume it was either Flynn fooling around or Dorothy, who was a kleptomaniac, who was just stealing it all the time.
After more extremely violent and bloody deaths start to transpire, it is clear that the residents are not dying of natural causes and there is a murder among them, so April demands Ryan to break the padlock off of Flynn's locker to see if there is any evidence to tie him to the murders, as she had a strong theory that he was the one behind it, but this is debunked when all they find is keys to his car's trunk and when opening the trunk they find Flynn in the back dying. During this time Dr. Death has embarked on a killing spree and killed every resident and staff member at the nursing home, apart from April and Ryan. Dr. Death then scalps the face off of Dr. Lantmen's corpse and turns his face into a literal skull, and then climbs inside of his internal organs and pulls on his tendons and controls his corpse like a large puppet. He has done this before with Dorothy, which is how April as able to see her in the window a few nights prior.
The night of horror comes to an end on an extreme thunderstorm, when Dr. Death in Dr. Lantmen's body attacks Flynn, but April uses a defibrillator to temporarily deactivate the monstrous body. After this Flynn is instantly killed when checking for a pulse on Dr. Lantmen's corpse and Dr. Death stabs through it with a scalpel into his forehead. Dr. Death then gets ready to finish off April as his last victim, but she demands him to stop, which shocks him as he was expecting her to be scared. April then reveals her secret that she is Duval's great-great granddaughter and she has been searching for him for years. Duval is Dr. Death's human soul and this causes him to remember who he use to be and have flashbacks of how his puppet was conceived and memories of working with Andre Toulon at the Theatre Magique in Paris and meeting the wizard Afzel. April then proceeds to tell him that she wants to help him be reunited with the other puppets, and she grins in a very sadistic way, this makes Dr. Death laugh and spare her life and seemingly agree to go on her mission of finding his old friends.
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Trivia[]
- The director Dave Parker is one of the people who created the unmade Puppet Wars trilogy.
- The original filmed ending has April setting out to find Miss. Camille's puppet show, to locate the other puppets, which connects this after Puppet Master II.