Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

In 1989, escaped Nazi war criminal Andre Toulon propositions a Texas bartender. She refuses, identifying as a lesbian, and he recoils. He later induces his sentient puppets to kill the woman and her lover. Rookie police officer Carol Doreski follows Toulon to his mansion, where she shoots him to death after he pulls a gun on her.

In 2019, slacker Edgar Easton moves back in with his parents following a divorce. Attempting to rebuild his life, he reconnects with his childhood crush, Ashley Sommers, and unearths his deceased younger brother's prized possession, a disturbing puppet he discovered at summer camp shortly before his death. Googling the object, Edgar learns that its name is "Blade" and that it's based on a design by Toulon, who performed puppet shows before the rise of the Third Reich. Edgar, Ashley, and Edgar's misanthropic boss Markowitz embark on a road trip to sell the doll at an auction dedicated to original Toulon creations hosted by the Brass Buckle Hotel.

The retired Doreski, making his living as a tour guide for Toulon-related media, gives them a tour of the hotel. Doreski informs her guests that Toulon routinely abducted, raped, and tortured Jewish women upon his arrival in America. She also explains that Toulon is now entombed in an adjoining mausoleum, funded by a distant relative and built to architecturally bizarre specifications outlined in Toulon's will. Edgar and Ashley experience supernatural phenomena at the hotel, such as disturbing phone calls and the Blade puppet moving on its own. Their first night they realize Edgar's Blade doll is missing and report it to hotel receptionist Howie. The missing doll coincides with a number of murders in the hotel that night. Recognizing the names of several victims from the tour he and Ashley took, Edgar notes that all of the victims were either people of color, Jews or homosexuals, and suggests the deaths are hate crimes.

The police gather the hotel guests in the lobby, where the hotel's bartender, "Cuddly Bear", leads a revolt against the authorities and orchestrates an escape into the parking lot where the guests are attacked by sentient puppets. Many are slaughtered but Edgar, Ashley, Markowitz, Doreski, Howie, and another survivor, Nerissa, escape back inside. Edgar suggests the puppets are fueled by racist ideology, and Markowitz summons a puppet to the hotel kitchen by reciting a Hanukkah prayer. The survivors disable the puppet and find it filled with amethyst. The survivors split into groups and hide in the hotel. Hearing prayiers in Hebrew, Markowtiz convinces Edgar to help him rescue the guest but Markowitz is killed. Edgar and Ashley escape by jumping into a dumpster below a window. Nerissa dies when she strikes the side of the bin.

The puppets slaughter the remainder of the guests including Doreski and Howie. Edgar intuits that Toulon's mausoleum is integral to the puppet attacks and crashes his truck into it. The attack disables the puppets but results in Toulon's corpse reanimating as a zombie, which attacks and kills Ashley before wandering into the wilderness.

Sometime later, Edgar has achieved success as a comic book artist, documenting his experience at the hotel. After a fan asks if Toulon has truly been stopped, a visibly disturbed Edgar fails to respond.