Director: Don Mancini
Notable Cast: Fiona
Dourif, Michael Therriault, Adam Hurtig, Alex Vincent, Elisabeth Rosen, Grace
Lynn Kung, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Zak Santiago, Ali Tataryn, Jennifer Tilly,
Brad Dourif, Summer H. Howell, Christine Elise
By the time that the fifth entry, Seed of Chucky, in the decades long Child’s Play franchise had arrived, the series felt wildly off
track. This iconic horror franchise has always had its ups and downs, but the
first ‘reinvention’ with Bride
quickly fell stale and became a parody of itself without enough core horror
elements to carry it. This left the stripped back and roots embracing sixth
entry, Curse of Chucky, to become a
breath of fresh air that displayed just why this series was so much fun to
begin with. Now this little jaunt back in time for a couple of entries in the
series may seem redundant for fans or those familiar with the Child’s Play franchise, but it’s
important to remember now that the seventh one, Cult of Chucky, has been unleashed. That’s because this latest
entry into the killer doll series is the perfect amount of traditional slasher
and outlandish self-aware camp that we’ve all come to expect from Don Mancini
and company. It’s delightfully aware of its own boundaries, maintains the
pieces we all watch a Chucky movie to
see, and still has no issue with breaking some new ground and pushing the
series into some fresh feeling territory. It’s a film that covers a lot of
territory and seemingly does it with relative ease to being one of the best of
the franchise.
