Tag: Child’s Play
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The Child’s Play Crew Debated Making Chucky ‘More Like Jaws’
Of all the killer dolls committed to celluloid, Chucky is one of the most recognizable. Since 1988, the ginger-haired Good Guy toy has been host to the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) and has since spread his mayhem across six sequels, a remake, and a successful television series about to go…
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M3GAN Starts a Twitter Beef With Chucky
The Battle of the Besties has begun. Following the official trailer drop for Blumhouse Productions’ 2023 horror M3GAN, shots between the 1988 Child’s Play iconic doll and the AI doll were instantly fired. Scathing comments and snide remarks abound in the Twitter-sphere now that the Syfy Chucky series has the serial-slaying Good Guy in his…
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Chucky Season 2 Review: The Series Makes Surprising Changes For A Fresh, Dangerous Season
As far as horror movie franchises go, the “Child’s Play” film series has always been one of the most enjoyable. A franchise about a serial killer-possessed doll is effectively bathing in camp from its very premise, and the films have gained a number of steadfast horror fans from their unique blend of humor and menace. When a…
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Chucky’s Classic Design Came Together For A Very Unique Reason
Tom Holland’s 1988 film “Child’s Play” was, at its heart, an indictment of an ever-bloating Christmastime consumption frenzy. Between 1983 and 1986, Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids were the most in-demand toy of the season, and stories were regularly written about the dolls’ success and the riots caused by parents trying to buy them. Embittered by…
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Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Is from Animation’s Most Lucrative Franchise, So Why the Lowball Projections?
Unlike the three other highly anticipated franchises to debut since May — “Doctor Strange” (Disney), “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount), and “Jurassic World: Dominion”(Universal) — Pixar’s “Lightyear” (Disney) will be the only one to open under 100 million. Projections are around 75 million, which might be a generous assessment.Why the struggle for the fifth film in…
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The Scariest Scene In Curse Of Chucky Really Bites Back
(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Matt welcomes Chucky’s shift into gothic horror while Ariel makes it clear that the Good Guy doll is never welcome in her house.)My ironclad love for…
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The Child’s Play Reboot Wasn’t Actually Mark Hamill’s First Time Voicing Chucky
The “Child’s Play” series is currently enjoying a robust renaissance, with both a well-received 2021 TV series, “Chucky” — which has won accolades for its queer representation — and a “Child’s Play” remake in 2019, which had the good taste to invent a new mythology for the central killer doll. In the 1988 original, a vicious…
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Chucky Season 1 Ending Explained: Who Lived, Who Died, Who Wants To Play Again?
The range of emotions the “Chucky” TV series has put me through made me feel almost as bats*** insane as the “Child’s Play” franchise itself — not that I’m complaining. Good media makes you feel things, and “Chucky” has made viewers feel a lot of things.If you’re one of those viewers, we can work through our…
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Chucky Season 2 Is Coming To Torment More Hapless Victims
Hide your knives and pray your kid doesn’t ask for a Good Guy doll this holiday season because “Chucky” isn’t going away anytime soon. Everyone’s favorite serial killer-possessed ginger doll has been killing it on screen and in the ratings for USA and SyFy, and we’ve learned today that the television series extension of the…
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‘Chucky’ Trailer: The Haunted Doll Wants to Play — on TV! — in New Syfy Series
It’s been 33 years since audiences first met serial killer Charles Lee Ray who transferred his soul into the Good Guy doll, Chucky. In that time, he’s been the star of several movies — and now a Syfy television series. Based on the trailer just released, Chucky might be getting too old for this, but…