8 Movie Remakes That Pissed Off The Original Creators

2. Child's Play

Child's Play 2019 Chucky
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Updating the formula of "doll comes to life and kills people" for modern times, the 2019 remake of Child's Play tried something different with the original concept.

Chucky was turned from a bog-standard doll into a cutting-edge piece of tech, which did give the whole endeavour a slight air of freshness. But even if the movie was the Citizen Kane of horror, it sounds like there was nothing it could've done to avoid the scathing comments of Christine Elise, one of the actresses who starred alongside the original version of the Chucky doll.

Elise - who first appeared in the franchise as Kyle in Child's Play 2 - had some rather colourful words for the team behind the remake, making her negative stance on the project crystal-clear during a 2018 interview:

“I think it’s an unbelievably huge d*** move. I think it’s a douche move absolutely.... I don’t know why they would f*** with a healthy franchise. And nobody from the original franchise is involved, they’re not gonna have Brad Dourif, they’re not gonna have Don, and they’re not gonna have any of us.”

Elise does have a point about the health of the franchise, considering that 2017's Cult of Chucky was received fairly well. But then again, the remake turned a nice profit, which, let's be honest, is all the studio cares about.

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