Child’s Play 2019
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Spoiler alert! I had high hopes for this remake since Mark Hamill was voicing Chucky but it was just terrible. The story line was bad. They took the classic possessed kill doll story and turned it into a overly possessive doll that kills on occasion. Chucky has no drive in this story. In the original he was a psychopath trying to get out of a dolls body before he was trapped in it forever. This story is about a disgruntled employee that take the safe guards out of an autonomous toy. The toy becomes overly possessive and that’s it. Chucky has no end goal since he was never a real person.- Louis
This is so much better than we deserve in an era saturated with phoned-in remakes. I loved it. And if you’re worried about the new approach to Chucky’s psychopathy—stop worrying and just give it a chance.
Director Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) steps up to helm the 8th Child’s Play feature film to reboot the 7-film run that stemmed from Tom Holland’s (Fright Night, Tales from the Crypt, Thinner, The Temp) magnificent original. Now 30 years later, our Good Guy doll has advanced along with our technology and, for the sake of edgier content, we’ve also made Andy a bit older.
Karen (Aubrey Plaza; Life After Beth, Legion) gives her 13-year-old son (Gabriel Bateman; Annabelle, Lights Out) a Buddi doll for his birthday, only to discover this doll has a few… manufacturer defects.
The Buddi doll is like a SmartHub meets Siri crossed by BlueTooth and basic artificial intelligence to make daily life easier for all members of the family. And to make Buddi more contemporized, we’ve removed the voodoo possession of the 80s serial killer and made him the product of a disgruntled employee in an abusive Vietnamese factory workplace who removes all safety protocols from the doll’s programming. Yup, we’ve removed Asimov’s laws of robotics (i.e., really laws of AI ethics) to not harm humans and the like. Dear lord… it’s like SkyNet just went live in your own home in the form of a smiling doll with an eerily friendly disposition. And what voice actor could better stand up to the legendary Brad Dourif (The Hazing, Dune, Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky) but Mark Hamill (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance)? Watching Chucky learn was kind of cute—in that troped-up naïve-to-the-world way.
Also a big jump from the other movies is that this Chucky doll walks around as part of its normal product function. So being seen moving on its own isn’t a red flag for a killer doll anymore. It brings about a more feisty than malevolent tone at first. Another big change is that this Chucky’s murderous behavior originally stems from good intentions. Sure he strangles a cat… but he thought he was protecting Andy. Chucky is kind of sweet, so we feel badly when he violently errs.
But when Chucky sees Andy and friends laughing at the murderous gore of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) on TV… that’s when we know Chucky is taking a dark turn. Chucky goes from sympathetic to way creepy on a frighteningly credible trajectory.
-John’s Horror Corner
I loved it. Every minute. I really appreciate that this was a fresh take on the original franchise. There was no voodoo, he wasn’t essentially real—so I feel like the A.I. gone wrong scenario really adds to the creepiness of it all, because something like this COULD happen. The horror community is so weird. You’ll hate on one remake before actually seeing it, yet you’ll go out and see ‘IT’ or get pumped about ‘Black Christmas’. Do yourself a favor, see this before judging it. It’s darker than the original, a fun modern day story, and you actually feel bad for Chucky. I don’t think he meant to be a killer… he was trained that way by evil children. ONE FINAL NOTE: I would have boycotted this movie if Don Mancini was blocked from making more of his own, but that isn’t the case. I can enjoy both. Also, let’s be real: Cult of Chucky wasn’t exactly a masterpiece. The clones actually made it down right cringey. The new movie was a fresh take on the franchise we desperately needed. They even handled “clones” in the new one much better than Cult. Give it a go. You won’t be disappointed. You’ll only hate it if you want to hate it…
-ohn
DVD Wholesale Main Features :
Actors: Aubrey Plaza
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R-Restricted
Studio: Mgm (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: September 24, 2019
ASIN: B07RVHGM5V
