Child’s Play has gone through several different iterations, reinventing itself through the decades: The original 80s film (a fairly straight horror film) gradually became more comedy-centric, culminating in the outlandish Seed of Chucky.
Then the series went old-school with two Direct-To-Video sequels that harkened back to Hitchcock & DePalma.
Now, though, the Child’s Play reboot has brought a modern twist to the franchise, forgoing the original series mythology and turning Chucky into a malfunctioning AI doll.
With this simple change, director Lars Klevberg hopes to make Chucky a more sympathetic character.
He’s no …
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