Director: Brandon Christensen
The Puppetman is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by Brandon Christensen, running 96 minutes and made for mature horror audiences.
What is The Puppetman about?
A man has spent years awaiting execution for a series of brutal killings, and throughout his imprisonment he has insisted that the murders were never his own doing. By his account, a malevolent and unseen presence took hold of his body at the moment of each crime. Years later, his daughter Michal, now a college student, begins to notice a chain of violent and unexplained events gathering around the people closest to her. As the accidents pile up, the line between coincidence and something deliberate grows thinner, and she is pushed toward the possibility that the force her father described was real and has not finished with her family. Rather than leaning on gore alone, the film builds a slow, inherited dread.
Cast & crew
The cast is led by Alyson Gorske as Michal, with Kio Cyr, Angel Prater, Cameron Wong, Anna Telfer, Caryn Richman, Jayson Therrien, and Zachary Le Vey rounding out the surrounding characters of students and family members. It is an American production performed in English, and K-Time presents it with Persian subtitles.
Context & significance
Director Brandon Christensen is known within contemporary independent horror for atmosphere-driven genre work. The Puppetman was released in 2023 and belongs to the possession sub-genre, in which an external malevolent entity, rather than a human antagonist alone, drives the violence. Its 96-minute running time keeps the structure tight, and its IMDb user rating is recorded at 5.3. The film uses a familiar horror framework, a condemned prisoner, a doubting relative, and a chain of deaths, to work through themes of guilt, inheritance, and whether harm can be passed down through a bloodline. None of the story is set in Iran, and the production has no Iranian cast or crew. It appears on K-Time as an imported foreign title made available with Farsi-language subtitles for the diaspora audience.
Where & how to watch
The Puppetman is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. The page you are reading is open to everyone, while playback opens once you sign in. K-Time serves the Iranian diaspora with a Farsi-first interface, and this title carries Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the English-language film comfortably in Farsi.