Child’s Play [Blu-ray]

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

Child’s Play” is a cheerfully energetic horror film of the slam-bang school, but slicker and more clever than most, about an evil doll named Charles Lee Ray, or “Chucky.” This doll has been possessed by the mind and soul of the Lake Shore Strangler, a Chicago mass murderer who studied voodoo from a black magician. After the strangler is shot by a cop and left for dead in a toy store, he gathers enough energy to utter a voodoo incantation, after which ominous clouds roil in the sky and lightning strikes the store, causing one of the several large explosions in this movie.

Cut to Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks), a widow who works as a sales clerk at Carson Pirie Scott. Her son wants a new kind of doll he’s seen advertised on TV, but she can’t afford the $100 price tag, so she buys one cheap from a peddler in the alley. No prizes for guessing which Lake Shore Strangler has possessed this doll.

Once Chucky the doll is home, he stays quiet around the adults but strikes up a friendship with Karen’s son, Andy (Alex Vincent). Chucky gets Andy to do favors for him, like carrying him into the living room so he can see the toy-store explosion on the late news. And when the baby-sitter gets nosy, Chucky plants a claw-hammer between her eyebrows and sends her crashing through a window to the ground far below.

“Film Note: The claw-hammer scene is a case study of the False Alarm, a basic device in all horror movies of the Mad Slasher sub-genre. Whenever there is a scare, and the scare turns out to amount to nothing, the movie takes a beat and then hits with the real scare.

What’s that noise behind the plant stand? Let’s creep over and see.

Gently . Ah, nothing there! Relief. And then comes the Whammo! Moment.

The next time you see one of these movies, wait for the False Alarm, and then start the countdown at the exact moment you hear the sigh of relief. The Whammo! Moment usually comes on the count of four.

DVD Wholesale Main Features    

Actors: Brad Dourif, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon
Directors: Tom Holland
Format: Collector’s Edition, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: R-Restricted
Studio: Shout! Factory
Run Time: 87 minutes
ASIN: B01I4C1ZFY