Wikipedia
Child’s Play is a 1988 American horror film directed and co-written by Tom Holland, and produced by David Kirschner from a story by Don Mancini. It is the first film in the Child’s Play series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky. It stars Catherine Hicks, Dinah Manoff, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif. Hicks plays a widowed mother who gives her son a doll for his birthday, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Creepy possessed dolls are seriously creepy. Seriously. Taking innocent children’s toys and turning them into psychopathic murderers just isn’t right. But it does make for a good movie. Well, movie series, there’s more than one of these things.
I’ve never seen the movie in it’s entirety until I sat down and watched it on YouTube. There were several moments that mad me cringe: Karen being considered crazy and the cop not even taking a second look (until that crazy turns up and tries to kill you), at what point do you stop the car and bail while trying to avoid being murdered?
Also, why isn’t this a supernatural horror movie? It deals with souls and soul transfers, so why not?
My Rating: ★ ★ ★
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