7. Childs Play
Childs Play is another film, that, among the dozens of unoriginal copycat slashers in the 1980s, actually gave us something new. That something new was killer doll, Chucky. A household name by now, Chucky is the childs toy who would creep out kids for years to come after the success of the Childs Play franchise. In this day and age its easy to look at Childs Play and laugh at how terribly un-scary it is. It is, after all, a murderous doll. That concept certainly felt fresher back then though, and thanks to some pretty decent special effects and Brad Dourifs brilliantly evil voice-over work as Chucky, it really works as a horror film. Although the franchise moved in a more tongue-in-cheek direction in the sequels that followed, the original definitely tries its hand at a more all-out horror, and for the most part, it succeeds. There are plenty of violent deaths which is enough to rightly give Childs Play its place on this list, and despite how silly it might seem on the surface, there is something genuinely scary about a voodoo-practicing serial killer stuck in the body of a doll. A killer coined as the "Lakeshore Strangler", no less. Creepy.
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