See Child's Play for the charity organization that organizes toy donations to children's hospitals

For the 1980s game show, see Child's Play (game show)

The Child's Play series is a series of five horror movies featuring a doll named Chucky. The doll was possessed by the soul of a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray through means of a dark voodoo ritual.

The first three movies are straight horror movies. The fourth movie, released seven years after the third, followed the trend set by Scream in emphasizing humour and lingering less on the scenes of high tension.

The movies are:

• Child's Play (1988), directed by Tom Holland
• Child's Play 2 (1990), directed by John Lafia
• Child's Play 3 (1991), directed by Jack Bender
• Bride of Chucky (1998), directed by Ronny Yu
• Seed of Chucky (2004), directed by Don Mancini

Plot

On November 9 of 1988, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler, Charles Lee Ray, was on the run from Detective Mike Norris. After being shot by Norris and left for dead by his partner Eddie Caputo, Ray decides to hide in a nearby toy store to avoid further gunfire. As Norris follows him, Ray exclaims that he would kill both Norris and Eddie "No matter what!" He then finds a Good Guy doll and decides to possess it to avoid dying from his gun wounds.

Meanwhile, little Andy Barclay is celebrating his sixth birthday while making his mother, Karen, breakfast in bed and watching his favorite Good Guys show, the inspiration for the line of dolls. Andy wants one more than anything but his mom didn't know about in time to save up for it.

While at work, Karen's friend Maggie pulls her from the job to buy a Good Guy doll cheap from a peddler in the alley for $30. Of course, this is the same doll that Ray possessed. Ray, now called Chucky, wants to transplant his soul into Andy's body.

This is basically the plot for the first three flims until "Bride of Chucky" where Chucky is brought back to life by his old girlfriend Tiffany. Tiffany is at first happy but is saddened when Chucky tells her that the ring she found was meant for money, and not for marriage. Tiffany gets Chucky angry, and he kills her to transplant her soul into another doll. Chucky and Tiffany then travel to New Jersey to get new bodies with Tiffany's neighbor Jesse and his girlfriend Jade while killing some people along the way...but Chucky and Tiffany soon get into another fight which allows Jesse and Jade to kill them. But, as Tiffany is dying, she gives birth to their child, Glen.

In "Seed of Chucky", its been six years after the events of the last flim and Glen is now older. When he hears about a movie called "Chucky Goes Psycho", about the Urban Legend of his parents, Glen travels to Hollywood and brings them both back to life using the "Heart of Damballa" amulet that was left behind by his parents. Chucky and Tiffany then find out their son is gender-confused since he is not anatomically correct like them. Chucky calls him Glen while Tiffany calls him Glenda. Unlike his mother and father, Glen doesn't like to kill, although he has frequent nightmares involving him killing people.

Controversy

Child's Play 3 was the subject of controvesy in the United Kingdom in 1993, when tabloid newspapers reported that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson had watched the film in the weeks before they killed Liverpool toddler Jamie Bulger. In addition, scenes from the movie appeared to have been duplicated in Jamie's death and there were similarities between deaths in the movie and Jamie's death. Although no proof of their watching the film was ever presented, and though the film was never banned as some report, many video retailers removed the film series from the shelves in response to the public outcry.

External links

• Child's Play 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Child's Play 3 at the Internet Movie Database
• Bride of Chucky at the Internet Movie Database
• Seed of Chucky at the Internet Movie Database