Child's Play: Ranking The Films From Worst To Best

Like a number of other horror icons, Chucky's elevated status into pop culture had done him no favors in keeping him truly scary in the wake of his original films. After all, once audiences have seen the monster under the bed enough, it loses its effectiveness, similar to how Freddy Krueger began losing the edge that once made him terrifying the more we found ourselves laughing with and rooting for him.

So with Child's Play 3 having seemingly stretched the series to its limits, Bride of Chucky surfaced in 1998 to stitch it all back together into a new beast, one that fused together comedy and horror for a respectful self-parody that reinvigorated the series. From introducing new elements like Tiffany and a slick visual overhaul of Chucky himself to fully embracing the killer doll as a leading man, Bride helped make the character relevant again.

Unlike Seed, which took the comedic path even further, Bride never implodes in on itself by overstepping its own bounds. While it's easy to see why some fans may have been turned off by the film due to its outward tonal differences in comparison to its predecessors and its disinterest in picking up any narrative threads still left over, Bride still deserves a lot of credit for playing with the franchise without disrespecting it and for not straying too far out as to be thoroughly estranged from what came before.