Below, in dried ink: “The avi is the puppet. And you just opened the case.”
The footage begins not with the familiar grainy stop-motion of Toulon’s troupe, but with a flickering VHS-to-digital ghost. The timecode is burned into the bottom corner: 1999? Or 1971? The file metadata is lying. Marsha and Viki-Rocco Puppet Master 9-.avi
“You told me Leech Woman was jealous,” she whispers. “But it’s not her, is it, Viki?” Below, in dried ink: “The avi is the puppet