The Story

Original Release Date:02/13/1999
Color/PG-13/TRT 50 Mins/©1997

Special Edition Release Date:10/18/2002
Color/PG-13/TRT 1 Hr 22 Mins/©2002


Cast and Crew Credits

Jack Jack Venturo
Mateo Justin Duffy
Father Hazzard David Haverty
Thorton Muggins Robert Wilkins
Tootie Frank Lepore
Little Billy Jason Dunkman

Interviewer Alex Anderson

Stanley Himself
Eddie Himself
Seally Herself

Stanley (Performer & Voice) Jack Venturo
Eddie (Performer & Voice) Jack Venturo
Seally (Performer & Voice) Jack Venturo

Directed by Jack Venturo
Written by Jack Venturo
Character Design by Jack Venturo
Conceptual Art by Justin Duffy
Trailer Voice Over (Special Edition) Dan Cook
Special Edition Restoration Supervisor Chris Roth

Synopsis:

One year has passed
and somewhere under the city
in a dark place
Something has hatched…


A year has passed and all is well, Jack is living with
Stanley the puppet and everything was fine until a
mysterious priest named Father Hazzard tells Jack some surprising revelations, Stanley was Naturally Born, and Mateo is alive.

Joining forces, Jack, Mateo, his new sidekick Tootie and Father Hazzard must work together to end the Legacy and destroy the Puppets Stanley, and his now newborn Hatchlings Eddie and Seally from continuing the bloodline by creating a Grand Puppet Army who will take over the world and cause wild destruction and mayhem.

..........."THE SAGA CONTINUES"..........


"The Stanley Saga" - The Full Story

 

1908
New Orleans, Louisiana

A New Orleans street performer named Safrone is accused of practicing witchcraft. He and his ten-year-old son, Mateo, are forbidden from performing their popular street puppet shows ever again.

It is then that Safrone and his son create a puppet named Synelo to exact revenge on the poor souls who have done Safrone wrong. Shockingly, Synelo's first victim was Safrone himself. Synelo attempts to kill Mateo but fails and escapes leaving Mateo's face horribly scarred. To avenge his father's death, Mateo spends the next 76 years hunting down Synelo.

1994
St. Simons Island, Brunswick, Georgia

Synelo's death tracks led Mateo to Brunswick, Georgia where he heard about Father Hazzard a priest who with the help of a misshapen Half formed Person named Quasimodo were making a puppet for their own revengful purposes against the people of St. Simons Island.

Mateo quickly found Father Hazzard and Quasimodo and warned them of what was to happen if they succeeded in giving life to the puppet, but instead of destroying it they decide to make an attractive she-puppet named Sherry to lure Synelo, knowing he would try to mate with her and create an army of world destroying puppets.

Before they noticed Synelo arrived, the puppets quickly mated and Sherry laid an egg, Mateo took Synelo's eyes and skin then fed him to a pack of wild dogs. Father Hazzard suffocated Sherry and buried her in a grave in his Church.

Quasimodo secretly stole the egg and the three of them made a pact not to tell anyone about the puppets, Father Hazzard loaned Mateo money so he can get back to New Orleans and begin a new life, Quasimodo moved to Florida where he waited for the egg to hatch to sell the puppet to science, but changed his mind when people made fun of his horrible appearance, he wanted the puppet to take revenge.

1996
St. Petersburg, Florida.
(Natural Born Stanley)

Quasimodo met Jack, A young foolish boy with a life that was turning from bad to worse, after getting struck by lightning, repeatedly slapped by his mother, dumped by his girlfriend and beaten by a crazy drunken bum on the street Jack decides to also Make a puppet for revenge and after hearing all the crazy stories about creating puppets, he called Quasimodo to help him but knowing Jack was a fool and didn't know what he was doing Quasimodo helped him make a puppet named Stanley but replaced the one Jack made with Sherry and Synelo's Powerful already hatched Offspring Stanley fooling Jack thinking he actually created this puppet.

Stanley got loose and killed Quasimodo before he could tell Jack the truth, then Stanley escaped and killed two inocent men on the Street, one in a Subway and a Jogger on the street.

Mateo hearing this familiar type of attack on the news rushes to Florida to find Jack and to find out how this could have happened, and try to stop the madness, But Stanley Laid 2 Eggs in the toilet and they traveled under ground for 1 year.

Finding out Quasimodo is dead he helps Jack catch Stanley but Stanley kills Mateo, and convinces Jack that he needs help and wants to be good and wants to live so Jack makes a chamber to help him live and takes care of Stanley and Stanley takes care of Jack, and they lived happily together for a year until the Eggs hatched...

1997
St Petersburg, Florida.
(Stanley 2 - The Legacy)

Two Newborn Hatchlings Eddie and Seally emerge out of the Sewers and follow their natural born instincts to feast on fresh meat, They kill a young fisherman boy named Little Billy, and go back to Jack's house to meet Stanley so that Seally could mate with him and create an army of world destroying puppets.

Mateo who faked his death to fool Stanley goes back to St. Simons Island in Brunswick Georgia to tell Father Hazzard about the foolish young boy Jack who made the same mistake they made nearly four years ago, Mateo being too busy with the New Book he wrote with the help of his Agent Tootie "I Got the Bastards Eyes" explaining all you need to know about Puppets and Becoming a Puppet Hunter, tells Father Hazzard to warn Jack of what's to come. After Mateo sold the Movie Rights to a small time promoter named Avalon. Tootie became obsessed with the Idea of Hunting Puppets and became Mateo's Sidekick

Father Hazzard travels to St. Petersburg Florida to warn Jack and tries to convince him that Stanley was Naturally Born and is the Hatchling Offspring of Sherry a puppet he created in 1994 and Synelo a puppet Mateo's Father Safrone created in 1918.

Father Hazzard Tells Jack about Quasimodo's plan to fool Jack by replacing the puppet he created with a natural born live one, and warns Jack that if Stanley were ever to Lay eggs or Reproduce the consequences would be devastating.

Jack does not believe any of this so Father Hazzard tells him to seek the proof buried in a crypt in a small tomb in the old graveyard in St. Simons Church in Georgia, there he will seek out a creepy old Undertaker named Thorton Muggins who will show him Stanley's Mother's suffocated and decomposed Cadaver.

Jack decides to travel to Brunswick Georgia after he returns home and finds Stanley Mating with Seally who are trying to reproduce and create a powerful Puppet Hatchling such as the world has never seen before a Hatchling more powerful than all of them combined.

When Jack discovers the truth he quickly races home to discover Mateo and Tootie tied up and trapped by the Hatchlings, after Jack sets them free he tells Mateo what he saw and quickly they set off to hunt them down and end the Hatchling Legacy forever.

Father Hazzard, Mateo and Jack burry Stanley Seally and Eddie after they viciously killed Tootie.

and the terror was over

Until Stanley surfaced from the ground…