![]() (Before that, though, he kills the Play Pals CEO, and Dourif delivers one of his best lines of the franchise: “Don’t fuck with the Chuck.”)Ĭhucky finds Andy in the Play Pals database and ships himself to the Kent Military Academy, where he’s intercepted by a little boy named Tyler. The old factory where Chucky was killed gets dusted off and fired up again, and when his body is melted down and repurposed, a new incarnation of Charles Lee Ray is born. As such, they can confidently relaunch the extremely profitable Good Guys toy line. ![]() At the same time, Play Pals has decided that enough time has passed since the PR disaster wherein one of its dolls became a serial murderer. ![]() It’s now 1998, and 16-year-old Andy is going from foster homes to military school. One of the best things about the Child’s Play movies are the spectacular ways that Chucky is killed over and over again this time, Andy vanquishes him in the Good Goy toy factory by spraying him down with molten rubber, and then shoving an air tube into his mouth, causing his body to expand until it explodes. His soul is stuck in the toy, so that means he has to kill Andy (and the foster sister who’s taken a liking to her new foster sibling). Chucky does, at last, get his tiny hands on Andy, but by the time he recites the prayer to Damballa, it’s too late. ![]() Naturally, once Chucky finds Andy, he mutilates his foster parents the living situation wasn’t really working out, anyway. This means Chucky is coming back - and since he’s basically been reincarnated, he has a new chance to make Andy his human host before the fusion between his soul and the doll becomes permanent. Andy, meanwhile, has gone into foster care, and the Play Pals company that makes the Good Guy dolls has decided - for some reason - to refurbish Chucky instead of just incinerating his charred remains, which have, as you may recall, been shot through the chest. After a climax in which Karen confronts said voodoo instructor about Chucky’s sentience - and in which Chucky’s possession of Andy is thwarted and the doll is set on fire - the the possessed toy is finally killed after being shot in the heart by a police officer.Įver since Karen Barclay insisted that a child’s toy went on a killing spree, she’s been locked up in a psychiatric care facility. During a house call to his voodoo instructor, John Bishop, Chucky learns that to get back into a human body, he must transfer his soul into the first person he told his secret to. Andy is over the moon about his new “friend till the end,” who reveals to only the boy that his name is actually Charles Lee Ray, or Chucky for short.Ĭhucky starts killing people almost immediately, and essentially framing Andy for it. Little Andy Barclay wants one of those Good Guy dolls for his sixth birthday, but Karen can’t afford it, so she buys one for cheap in a back alley near her work. Lee runs into a toy store before being gunned down, but right before he dies, he recites a voodoo spell that transports his soul into a Good Guy doll with burning-red hair, freckles, and little overalls. But before you dive back into the franchise’s uncanny world, brush up on your Chucky history with this guide to the previous six films.Ĭhild’s Play opens with our first look at the Lakeshore Strangler, Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), as he flees from the police. That consistency is on display in Cult, with Brad Dourif returning to voice Chucky for the seventh time, and series favorite Jennifer Tilly appearing as the killer’s paramour and co-conspirator for the fourth time even the actor who played Chucky’s first target, Andy, has reprised his role to settle scores with his “friend till the end” once and for all. You can actually draw a straight line through all the movies, which is not something The Texas Chainsaw Massacre can claim. The ’80s-kitsch design of the doll has barely changed in three decades, because, as the doll himself tells us in Bride of Chucky, “a true classic never goes out of style.” Mancini has written every Child’s Play since the beginning (and directed the last three), giving the chronicles of Chucky a more “logical” narrative progression (contextually, at least) and consistent mythology than any of those bad-guy franchises mentioned above. And yet, the seventh installment of the franchise, Cult of Chucky, in theaters now, is the second chapter in a row to receive strong critical praise, suggesting that Don Mancini’s deranged creation has accomplished a rare feat: a horror franchise that’s actually aged well.Ĭhucky has never been rebooted or remade or reinvented. Its star, a maniacal doll named Chucky, is not always counted among his 1980s horror-villain brethren - Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger. Somehow, the Child’s Play franchise has persisted for 30 years. Photo: Ronald Gran/Universal Pictures/Everett Collection
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