香港皇家警察萧玉龙（萧玉龙 饰）和刘兆铭（刘兆铭 饰）是一对同袍好友。某晚，二人参加婚宴，刘酩酊大醉，随之被扒手盗去荷包，更险遭飞车撞倒。二人驱车追赶飞车司机，糊里糊涂来到一片荒芜所在，更目睹持刀男子（黄初一 饰）追杀中年妇女的场面。他们上前制止，经过一番殊死搏斗，最终刘将持刀男子射杀。 然而蹊跷之事接踵而至，先是房间突然陷入混乱，然后萧之女友也被恶物缠身。虽经拜神请愿，却未见成效。最后经高人指点，萧方明白这一连串怪异事件的背后竟是隐藏多年的世代冤案……
三个恐怖短篇小说，包括：一个女人试图抢劫坟墓时遇到的故事；一个女人把她的儿子从死里召回的故事（完全照搬死亡之夜 Dead of Night (1977)中的第三个故事）；以及一个非洲娃娃复活的故事。
The PUPPET MASTER series finally concludes with its seventh, and straight-to-video, sequel THE LEGACY. Comprised mostly of clips from the previous features, the film centers around Eric Weiss (Jacob Witkin) the little boy saved by toymaker Andre Toulon in PUPPET MASTER 3. Now a grown man in pursuit of Toulon's secret for animating objects, Weiss relates the puppets' history--through flashbacks and archival footage from the first six sequels--to a woman named Maclain (Kate Orsini), unaware that the mysterious beauty is really an assassin out to destroy the puppet master's legacy
