Child’s Play

Young Andy Barclay gets the doll he wanted. However, he did not know it was alive!

• Director: Tom Holland
• Genre:Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:84 minutes

Cast

Catherine Hicks : Karen Barclay
Chris Sarandon : Mike Norris
Alex Vincent : Andy Barclay
Brad Dourif : Charles Lee Ray / Chucky
Dinah Manoff : Maggie Peterson

While being chased by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), Charles Lee “Chucky” Ray, a serial killer known as “The Lakeshore Strangler” (Brad Dourif), is shot and mortally wounded. Before dying, Charles takes cover inside a toy store, finding boxes of “Good Guy” dolls and uses a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into one of the dolls. The store is then struck by lightning and it burns to the ground.

Later that morning, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) tells his widowed mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) that he wants a Good Guy doll for his birthday after watching a TV commercial for it. Unable to afford the full price, Karen buys a stolen doll from a street peddler, which is the same doll into which Chucky had earlier transferred his soul.

That night, as Andy is playing with the doll (who has introduced himself as “Chucky” through the talking feature of the doll), Karen’s friend, Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff), who is babysitting Andy, scolds him for turning on the evening news and placing Chucky in front of the TV. When Andy tries to tell Maggie that he did not put Chucky in front of the TV, she doesn’t believe him. Maggie is then viciously struck with a toy hammer and falls out of the apartment window, falling several stories to her death. The killer’s identity is left ambiguous. Andy, when questioned, insists that Chucky has revealed himself to be alive and that he killed Maggie, though he defends Chucky’s decision by stating that Chucky told him that “Maggie was a real bitch” and that she “got what she deserved”.

The next day, Andy, apparently upon Chucky’s request, visits the house of Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntoli), Chucky’s accomplice, who had betrayed him and which led Charles Lee Ray to his death. Chucky is revealed as being alive. He sneaks into Eddie’s house and blows out the pilot light on the stove and turns up the gas; Eddie, in panicked self-defense, fires his gun and the house explodes, killing him. Read more

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