Child’s Play
October 30th, 2009 by admin | Filed under sports.
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The “chills come thick and fast” (Los Angeles Times) as voodoo and terror meet within an innocent-looking doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who isn’t ready to die. From the Director of Fright Night comes a “clever, playful” (The New York Times) and stylish thriller with “excellent special effects” (Leonard Maltin) and heart-pounding suspense guaranteed to scare! After 6-year-old Andy Barclay’s (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that “Chucky,” his new birthday doll, did it! Until things start going terribly wrong dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers [Read More...]
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A voodoo obsessed serial murderer named Charles Lee Ray (Brad Douriff) who is known as the notorious Lakeshore Strangler is one of the city’s most infamous killers. He was chased then gunned down by a police dective named Detective Norris (Chris Sarandon) to death. The next day, a 6 year old boy named Andy Barclay (Alex Vincient) just had a birthday and his mother Karen (Catherine Hicks) buys him a Good-Guy doll named Chucky for him and the boy loves it. Andy has gotten more then he gets as murders and accidents start happening as the boy believes his doll is responsible as no one believes him not even his mother, it turns out the doll is possessed by Ray as it’s purpose is to use the boy for his evil and wants his soul.
Stylish and masterful horror thriller from director Tom Holland (”Fright Night”) and writer Don Mancini who gave birth to a horror legend named Chucky. The film started out as an idea by Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner based off the whole Cabbage Patch Kids and Teddy Ruxpin craze with voodoo themes to it. Mancini was influenced by films like the Anthony Hopkins horror thriller “Magic”, the Twilight Zone TV show and 1975’s “Trilogy of Terror”. The performances are quite well done even by The Incredible Hulk’s Jack Colvin, Kevin Yagher’s special effects even on Chucky are just outstanding even in today’s CGI realm. This movie has stood quite well terrifying generations of children on their fear of dolls as it spawned 4 sequels, wannabes and of course a reboot/remake in the works from the same creator.
This Blu-Ray has incredible picture and sound with a suprisingly good High Def transfer with extras like featurettes, trailer, audio commentaries and widescreen standard def DVD included.
CHILD’S PLAY is simply one of the most effective horror films released in the 80’s.
It benefits from a solid screenplay, a great cast, a great director and special effects that are a wow! Before CHILD’S PLAY, director Tom Holland gave us another 80’s classic FRIGHT NIGHT and I must say this was a director in the top of his game.
Little Vincent (Andy Barclay) lives with his single mom (Catherine Hicks) who works hard to make ends meet. He is sad because he wants for his birthday a Good Guy doll (a doll after a popular TV show). The dolls are great: they talk, each one has its own name… and they are very expensive. But mom (knowing her son is sad) finds a street seller who happens to have a Good Guy doll for sale - a doll he stole from a toy store where something horrible happened…
…And this is just the beginning because inside the doll is the spirit of a murderer (Brad Dourif) who managed to transfer his soul to the doll before getting shot by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon). So the doll will kill his way to Norris in search of revenge.
This is an amazing film in every way. So good it turned out becoming a franchise. But in my opinion, none of the sequels matched this first film for all its qualities.
Plus: finally we get all the extras we deserve.
Recommended.