10 Best Horror Movie Opening Scenes Of The 2010s
8. Child's Play (2019)
Despite the fact that the killer doll has never really left our screens since his first appearance in 1988, Lars Klevberg's 2019 remake of Child's Play transports Chucky well and truly into the 21st century by reimagining him not as a cursed object, but a piece of AI electronic hardware with a major fault.
The opening scene juxtaposes an all-American advert for the Buddi AI doll with the conditions in the Vietnamese factory where these things are made, focusing on a disgruntled and belaboured worker whose miserable, abusive work life inspires him to adjust the code in one of the dolls, removing all the safeguards and restrictions that prevent it from being a danger to users. And then he unceremoniously throws himself off the roof, landing dead on someone's car but failing to halt the consumer-industrial machine for even a second.
The instant and unsettling violence, and the contrast of pleasant everyday life with the evil necessary to make that a reality, sets the stage for Chucky's arrival, his grinning face and damaged box harbingers for things to come as he's loaded on a pallet and sent out to the States. Bear McCreary's score sounds like Danny Elfman on downers, and even though we have yet to hear Mark Hamill's sinister tones emerge from the childlike Buddi doll, we know we're in for a hell of a ride.