Review: Child’s Play feels more like an old fashioned horror film than it does a slasher movie, partially due to a cast that features mostly middle-aged adults, and partially due to the style of director Tom Holland, who brings a sort of Hammer horror vibe to things that is largely absent from the sequels.
Soon discovering that if he stays in the doll too long, he’ll be trapped there, “Chucky” makes transferring his soul into the body of Andy Barclay – the little boy who was given the doll for his birthday – his top priority. Synopsis: When serial killer Charles Lee Ray is gunned down inside of a toy store, he uses his mad voodoo magic skillz to transfer his soul into a nearby Good Guy doll. With Chucky’s latest terror tantrum recently unleashed upon the world in the form of the DVD and blu-ray release of Cult of Chucky, now seems like a good time to take a look back at the twists and turns and complete tonal backflips that this amazing franchise has undergone over the course of its history… That magic combination of Dourif’s voice and Kevin Yagher’s (and later, Tony Gardner’s) puppet magic made for a fascinating character, one who has captivated me ever since.Īnd now, with twenty-nine years and six sequels under his belt, and as the only slasher to have escaped the dreaded continuity reset, it’s safe to say that Chucky the killer doll has more than earned his place in the slasher icon hall of fame. Sure, initially that personality was probably more that a little bit inspired by fellow foul mouthed slasher, Freddy Krueger, but it didn’t take long for Chucky, and Brad Dourif’s powerhouse performance, to become distinctive and iconic in their own right. Even at ten I had seen creepy doll stuff before, like the titular creatures in Stuart Gordon’s Dolls, or the killer plastic doll in the Terror of the Autons episode of Doctor Who, but whereas those dolls tended to be tiny little automatons, blindly marching malevolently forward, Chucky possessed the one thing that none of them had: a personality.
While there is plenty to appreciate in that first film, what really appealed to my younger self was Chucky, and how unexpected he was.
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