Chucky was just an ordinary 'Good Guys' doll until a voodoo practising killer - Charles Lee Ray - transferred his dying soul into the doll by the means of black magic. Karen, a single mother buys Chucky for a steal from a hobo and gives him to her young son Andy. Pretty soon, the babysitter Maggie is hit on the head with a hammer and falls to her death through a window. The police think it's Andy until Karen shoos them away. Chucky controls Andy to go down and engineer the death of one of Charles Lee Ray's criminal associates, leading to Andy being placed in a psychiatric hospital. Karen gets a nasty shock when she discovers that the doll really is possessed and has been functioning without batteries. Chucky's antisocial behaviour becomes so bad a witchdoctor is called in to deal with him. He says that the longer Chucky is possessed, the more human he becomes. The doll kills the witchdoctor and makes a beeline for Andy, who has escaped the hospital. After several tense scenes of is-he-really-dead-or-not violence between Karen, Andy and Chucky, the wretched doll finally quits when he is shot through the heart (which is his weak spot) Very different to the wise cracking, humorous Bride Of Chucky or Seed Of Chucky, Child's Play Chucky was, way back in 1988, a seriously freaky villain who played his lines straight, Chucky was a vessel of terror - a brilliant concept playing on the fear of inanimate objects coming to life. The only thing slightly silly about the film is how a doll can kill people so easily. Can't they just kick him out of the way? But if the viewer suspends disbelief, the film works well in its psycho killer doll premise. Wanna play?
My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
