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[[File:childs-play-movie.jpg|frame|Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?]]
{{quote|''"You'll wish it was only make-believe."''}}
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a [[Soul Jar]] for the [[Serial Killer]] Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Catherine Hicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
The film was a low-budget movie but turned out to be a modest box office hit. Its worldwide gross estimated to 44,196,684 dollars. About 33 million of them came from the United States market, where it was the 33rd most successful film of its year. Reviews were mostly positive. Naturally, a sequel was soon put on the schedule.
The second film does not feature Karen Barclay, though the character survived the previous film. But her story about a killer doll resulted in her being taken away for "psychological evaluation". The 8-year-old Andy has been placed in the [[Foster Kid|Foster Care System]]. He is placed in the care of Phil and Joanne Simpson (Gerrit Graham and Jenny Agutter). But Charles Lee Ray has found a new doll to be his host and is still obsessed with the boy. He soon locates Andy and the incidents start again. Unfortunately the Simpsons suspect fostered teen Kyle (Christine Elise) as the culprit. Now Andy and Kyle have to face the killer with no outside help.
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The third film features a 16-year old Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin). He has apparently lost contact with Kyle and been through several foster homes. He failed to adapt and is currently attending a [[Military School]]. His main problem being Lieutenant Colonel Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine), a high-ranking cadet who is notorious for bullying weaker recruits. Andy is developing an attraction to female student Kristen De Silva (Perrey Reeves). Meanwhile, the old "Good Guy" doll line is being revived for a new generation. Charles Lee Ray immediately possesses one and goes in search of Andy again, which spells doom for the military school.
Don Mancini, the main script-writer of the series, admitted to
The fourth film is actually a [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror|Horror Comedy]] with an emphasis on comedy. It opens with events immediately following the previous film. The Chucky doll has been destroyed and Charles may be gone for good. However, his former lover and accomplice Tiffany ([[Jennifer Tilly]]) has other ideas. She crudely stitches Chucky's remains back together and reenacts the voodoo ritual which instilled Ray inside the doll a decade ago. Charles is successfully revived. Tiffany at first makes fun of his condition and torments him. He retaliates by killing her body and transferring her soul to a female doll. Now they both need new bodies and local teenage rebels Jade (Katherine Heigl) and Jesse (Nick Stabile) seem good candidates. Meanwhile, Charles and Tiffany explore their mutual feelings of love, lust, and hate for each other.
This film was the biggest box office hit of the series. Its worldwide gross is estimated to 50,671,850 dollars. About 32 million of them came from the United States market, where it was the 62nd most successful film of its year. The film received mixed reviews but this was still much better than its immediate predecessor.
The fifth film was again a Horror comedy and features the returns of both Charles and Tiffany. Six years have passed since the events of the previous film. However, the film focuses on their son Glen, born during the events of the previous film. He makes a meager living as a ventriloquist's dummy and dreams of meeting his famous parents. He successfully tracks the dolls to Hollywood and revives them. They have somewhat unique approaches
The film mostly parodies its predecessors and other horror films, while poking fun at Hollywood and various celebrities. Its worldwide gross is estimated to 24,829,732 dollars. About 17 million of them came from the United States market, where it was only the 110th most successful film of its year. Reviews were mostly negative.
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Following a recent trend of remakes for classic horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, plans for a Child's Play remake were announced in 2008. The creators intended to abandon the comedic approach and make Chucky scary again. As of October 2010, Don Mancini was reported as still working on the script.
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Not to be confused with [[Child's Play (TV series)
▲Not to be confused with [[Child's Play (TV series)||the charity]] or [[Child's Play (TV series)||the Bill Cullen game show]].
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* [[One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments]]: Number 94.
* [[Accidental Murder]]: In the third movie Colonel Cochran suffered a fatal heart attack before Chucky even got a chance to stab him.
{{quote|'''Chucky:''' You've gotta be fucking kidding me...}}
** You can't actually blame Chucky for the death of Maggie the Babysitter. He ''was'' intending to murder her when he hit her in the face with a hammer, but her actual death was more the result of her tripping over while she wildly stumbled
* [[Adam Westing]]: [[Jennifer Tilly]] in ''Seed''.
* [[Adult Fear]]: When Mrs. Barclay thinks her son might be a killer and later when she finds out there's a serial killer after him.
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* [[Asshole Victim]]:
** ''Child's Play 2'' has [[Sadist Teacher|Mrs. Kettlewell]].
** ''Child's Play 3'' has [[Jerk Jock|Shelton]] and Sgt. Botnick. Noticeably averted with the garbage man who despite what his occupation would imply was ''not'' human trash.
** ''Bride of Chucky'' has the couple who steal Jesse and Jade's money, and Jade's [[Dirty Cop|Uncle Warren]].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Chucky in all episodes.
* [[Badass]]: Chucky manages to be a seriously terrifying threat even in the later movies by virtue of sheer creativity and tenacity.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|At the end of ''Seed'', Tiffany successfully takes over Jennifer Tilly's body.}}
* [[Bath Kick]]: Tiffany manages to fend of Chucky with one leg. If she did more than scream her fool head off, she might have escaped the collapsing television.
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{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Glen:''' "No, dad! It's not Glenda! I'm the little boy you wanted! Are you happy now!? Are you proud of me now, dad!?" (says this while chopping Chucky up with an ax)}}}}
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: No one ever believes Andy about Chucky.
** After the first film, Karen Barclay was locked away in an asylum because she insisted the killer doll story was true even when the police didn't back it up.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Andy learning how to aim a gun in ''3''.
* [[Child-Hater]]: Chucky says "I hate kids" during the finale of ''2''.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: [[New Media Are Evil|"Paparazzi scumbag!"]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: In ''Child's Play 3'', Chucky is so busy indulging in maniacal laughter that the girl he keeps as a hostage takes advantage of the situation to run away.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Towards the end of the second movie; a security guard falls onto the
*** The second movie overuses this trope. It opens with a close up of Chucky's eye being removed. In extended footage from the TV version, Chucky's eye falls into a vat of plastic and is built into a new doll.
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: In ''Seed'', though Glen(da) isn't really into it like his/her parents are.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Chucky is evil all right, but this gets quite [[Flanderization|flanderized]] throughout the series.
** Possibly best exemplified when in ''Bride of Chucky'', he drinks a fish's bowl water.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Many people find it hard to take Chucky seriously because he's a two
* [[Large Ham]]: --> "Don't fuck with the Chuck!"
* [[Left for Dead]]: Chucky is left for dead in all the movies.
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'''Andy:''' "This is the end, friend!"}}
** Chucky himself has plenty of these.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: A couple of scenes with Jennifer Tilly (playing herself).
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: In the first three films, Chucky takes an absurd amount of punishment. Getting set on fire, dismembered, melted, and ''cutting half of his face off'' only slowed him down temporarily.
** Even more remarkably, despite the windows between his initial doll possession and becoming human getting shorter in every film, he still manages to stay alive even after suffering injuries real humans in comparable circumstances would die from, including mundane reasons like extreme blood loss as seen in the second movie.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Weirdly invoked with Chucky. When he first becomes a living doll, he's effectively immortal, save anything that would be lethal to his new body. As he stays in the doll body longer, it becomes more human, thus more prone to what would harm actual humans, which is why he trie to get a new body ASAP in every film if and when possible.
** ''Bride of Chucky'' confirms this gets taken to its logical conclusion with Chucky being anatomically correct with all that implies.
* [[Recovery Sequence]]: In the opening sequences to ''2'', ''3'', and ''Bride of Chucky'', Chucky is shown being reconstructed.
* [[Reverse Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series turned to self-parody from ''Bride of Chucky'' onward.
** Worth noting they still managed to be scary regardless, with several scenes of unironic horror in those films, just leavened with a lot more [[Black Comedy]].
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Mrs. Kettlewell from the second movie.
* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Chucky.
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* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Andy at the end of every movie he's featured in. Glen in ''Seed''....although a really weird one.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: In ''Child's Play 2'', Chucky goes complete rage mode when {{spoiler|he fails to transfer his soul into Andy's body.}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Andy doesn't return after the third ''Child's Play'' movie. The movie ends with him being brought in by the police for questioning.
** Nor has the Good Guy Dolls company ever been mentioned, even though they're back in business. However, some dialogue from ''Bride'' implies they've been shut down again, this time for good.
* [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]: Parodied in ''Seed''. '''Redman''' (the rap star) is directing a Bible epic, and Jennifer Tilly is lobbying for the part of the Virgin Mary.
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