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Child's Play is a supernatural horror film written by Don Mancini and directed by Tom Holland. It was released by United Artists on November 9, 1988.The film met with moderate success upon its release, and has since developed a cult following among fans of the horror genre. The film spawned many sequels released by Universal Studios (which acquired the rights to the series shortly after the release of the original): Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky, and Seed of Chucky. Childs Play has a number of meanings; Childs play is an idiom meaning that something is simple to achieve. ...
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Tom Holland was born on July 11th, 1943 in Phoughkeepsie, New York, USA and graduated from Worcester Academy in 1962. ...
David Kirschner (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television producer, particularly of animated features. ...
Don Mancini (born January 25, 1963) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. ...
Don Mancini (born January 25, 1963) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. ...
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Tom Holland was born on July 11th, 1943 in Phoughkeepsie, New York, USA. He has directed five movies including: Childs Play Fright Night External Links Tom Holland at the Internet Movie Database Categories: Movie stubs ...
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Childs Play is a 1988 horror film, written by Don Mancini and directed by Tom Holland. ...
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Childs Play 2 (also known as Childs Play 2: Chuckys Back) is the 1990 sequel to the 1988 horror film Childs Play, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia. ...
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Don Mancini (born January 25, 1963) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. ...
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Childs Play 2 (also known as Childs Play 2: Chuckys Back) is the 1990 sequel to the 1988 horror film Childs Play, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia. ...
Childs Play 3 (also known as Childs Play 3: Look Whos Stalking) is the third movie in the Childs Play series. ...
Bride of Chucky (also known as Childs Play 4: Bride of Chucky) (1998) is the fourth entry in the Childs Play series. ...
Seed of Chucky (also known as Childs Play 5: Seed of Chucky) is a 2004 film and the fifth entry in the popular Childs Play series. ...
Box office
This movie had a $9,000,000 budget. It opened in 1,377 theaters, making $6,583,963. The domestic gross was $33,244,684 with it making $10,952,000 overseas. Worldwide, the film made $44,196,684.
Plot The story begins on November 9, 1988. While being chased by detective Mike Norris, Charles Lee Ray ("Chucky"), the notorious "Lakeshore Strangler", is shot and mortally wounded by Norris. Before dying, Charles takes cover inside a toy store finding boxes of "Good Guy" dolls, and uses a voodoo ritual that will transfer his soul into one of the dolls. The store is then struck by lightning, and it burns to the ground. Gumshoe redirects here. ...
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Later that morning, Andy Barclay and his mother, Karen, are introduced to the audience. It is Andy's sixth birthday and he wants a Good Guy doll he has seen in television commercials. However, his mother cannot afford the doll, and instead buys various other toys. Realizing her son's deep disappointment, she later buys a Good Guy from a homeless peddler, the doll purchased being the recipient of the voodoo ritual.
That night, as Andy is playing with the doll (who's revealed himself as Chucky via the talking feature of the doll), Karen's friend Maggie, who is babysitting, takes the doll away when Andy is insubordinant in going to bed. The audience then sees a first-person perspective of a small figure taking a hammer and striking Maggie with it. She falls out of the apartment window, tumbling several stories to her death. The killer's identity (either Andy or Chucky) 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 "Maggie was a real bitch" and that she "got what she deserved". Look up Babysitting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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The next day, Andy, apparently upon Chucky's request, visits the house of Eddie, Chucky's accomplice who had betrayed him. As Andy urinates outside of the house, Chucky is revealed as being alive. He sneaks into Eddie's house and blows out the pilot light on the stove; Eddie, in panicked self-defense, accidentally shoots the stove and the house explodes. Manneken Pis of Brussels. ...
Later authorities place Andy in a psychiatric hospital after he is found near the crime scene. Karen believes the doll to be the culprit after she finds that his battery compartment is empty and threatens to throw him in the fireplace. Chucky comes alive in her hands, bites her and runs out of the apartment. She contacts Mike Norris, who is now investigating Maggie's death. Although he initially doubts her story, the homeless man who sold Karen the doll confirms that he retrieved it from the burnt down toy store where Charles Lee Ray was killed. Norris becomes a firm believer after he is attacked by Chucky in his car and survives only by shooting the doll. A psychiatric hospital (also called, at various places and times, mental hospital or mental ward, historically often asylum, lunatic asylum, or madhouse), is a hospital specialising in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
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Chucky later meets with John, his voodoo instructor from years past, and asks why his gunshot wound bled. John, under torture via voodoo doll, informs him that his body is slowly conforming to that of a human's, and that he will soon be trapped in the body if he does not transfer his soul into the body of the first person he revealed himself to. Offhandedly remarking that he will "get to be six years old again", Chucky stabs the doll and leaves John to die. Karen and Detective Norris, following leads from Charles Lee Ray's case file, find John as he lay dying and receive instructions on how to kill Chucky; although Chucky is a doll, his heart is fully human and vulnerable to fatal injury.
Andy escapes from the hospital, Chucky killing a doctor in the process. Mike and Karen rush back to the apartment hoping that Andy is there. They confront Chucky in the apartment just as he is preparing to transfer his soul into Andy's body. After a prolonged struggle, Chucky is thrown into the fireplace and as Andy prepares to light him on fire Chucky says " Andy I thought we were friends till the end?" Andy replies with "This is the end friend!" and throws the match in the fireplace. Andy and Karen, thinking Chucky is dead, go to help the injured Mike Norris. After Andy gets the first aid kit from under the sink, he discovers Chucky is gone. Chucky chases after Andy and Karen; Karen shoots him several times, missing his heart, but scattering his head an arm and a leg in the hallway. After another police officer arrives, the scattered doll parts attempt to attack at the instructions of Chucky's severed head, but Norris finally shoots Chucky in the heart, killing Charles Lee Ray for the time being.
Production Child's Play was filmed at the following locations: - Chicago, Illinois (on location) The Chicago landmark the Brewster Apartments located at Diversey and Pine Grove served as the location of the apartment where Andy and Karen lived. It is pictured on the movie poster. Silent filmstar Charlie Chaplin occupied the penthouse of this building when he lived in Chicago.
- Culver City, California (in studio)
Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Motto: The Heart of Screenland Location of Culver City in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1917-09-07 [2] Government - City Manager Jerry Fulwood [1] Area - City 5. ...
Writing - It is rumored that the "Good Guy Dolls" were based on the My Buddy dolls created by Hasbro. However, during an airing of the movie on the morning of 7 January 2007, AMC claimed the creator modeled the doll after the Cabbage Patch Kids; he was tired of seeing commercials for the dolls. This was confirmed by an interview with the creator, Don Mancini, which was featured on the Seed of Chucky DVD.
- Don Mancini has stated that his original script toyed with the audience a bit longer, making them wonder if young Andy was the killer rather than Chucky. The actual film does make the viewer wonder for more than a few minutes, although it grows incredibly obvious that Chucky is the murderer.
- Chucky's full name, Charles Lee Ray, is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.
- Maggie's death was going to be by electrocution while taking a bath. The idea was later used in Bride of Chucky.
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Childs Play is a 1988 horror film, written by Don Mancini and directed by Tom Holland. ...
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- Mike Piccirillo - "Chucky's Animated Theme"
- D.B Boyle - "I'm Hanging"
- Michael Lanning - "Is It Really Love"
- African Suite - "Grass"
- David Darling - "Second Sight"
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Trivia - This film was #93 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
- The film was released on the iTunes Store on April 11th, 2007. It is reportedly available in widescreen, making it the first time Child's Play has been available in widescreen outside of the original theatrical exhibition.
- The chant that Chucky recites to transfer his soul into another body is mostly in French, though he often fumbles with the language, most notably calling on the "pepper of the dead" rather than the "power of the dead".
- The film became part of a murder trial in the UK. During their trial and subsequent conviction for the murder of Suzanne Capper, four murderers were alleged to have utilised themes from the film in their torturing and murder by burning of the 16 year old girl. [2]
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Remake On October 20, 2007, David Kirschner, the producer of the original Child's Play, had an interview where he announced that his next project was another "Chucky" movie, which is a remake of the original. He said that they were in talks with Don Mancini and discussed whether Brad Dourif should reprise his role as the voice of Chucky. He also announced that Chucky, like in the previous films, would be animatronic rather than CGI.[3] is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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