10 Chilling Sci-Fi Movies Where AI Goes Rogue
6. Child's Play (2019)
Director Lars Klevberg opted to rejuvenate and redefine the Child's Play brand with his 2019 reboot, abandoning the original's supernatural possession angle and delivering a horrific new concern more aligned with the times.
In the film, Andy's (Gabriel Bateman) brand new Buddi doll, which names itself Chucky (and is voiced by none other than Mark Hamill), is a right giggle until it begins to display some rather unexpected behaviours. Soon, Chucky takes on a mind of his own, bypassing corrupted security protocols to wreak havoc in Andy and his mother's life. Knives, table saws, cultivators - there is no limit to what Chucky is willing to use in order to please Andy, but after the boy abandons him, he turns on his former pal and attempts to take him out of the game for good.
Granted, this Child's Play doesn't quite have the punch of the 1988 original, but it offers up a whole new avenue of terror, as the Buddi AI toy range is a best-seller, inhabiting homes across the US. The potential for Chucky to transfer his no-limits AI code to other dolls is exhibited in the final act, but whether we will see this capitalised on in future instalments is anyone's guess.