10 Horror Movies Where The Villain Is A Supposedly Inanimate Object

Tom Holland's 1988 classic horror Child's Play amassed a massive fanbase and spawned, in the many years to come, some six sequels and a TV series. But, while much has been said of the original, little of the series' plaudits have been bestowed upon the rather excellent 2019 reboot.

Whether in the original or the new breed, the essential component of the films' success is their pint-sized villain, Chucky. Voiced to perfection by the ever-dextrous Mark Hamill in the 2019 Child's Play, Chucky is a high-tech Buddi Doll, designed with adaptive functionality for a new age of playtime and an AI-sensitive society. Sabotaged to remove all of his safety protocols, the doll goes off the rails big time and starts carving up his new neighbourhood before seeking to take control of a small army of Buddis; next stop, world domination.

While he is an ordinary doll possessed by a murderer in the original movies, the new and improved Chucky is a legitimately rogue object, acting without cause or conscience. And, in many ways, this makes him so much more frightening than the original, because while we might be able to reason with a man in a doll's body, we can neither barter with nor fully understand the machinations of a mad robot.