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Child's Play [VHS]

5 star:		(106)
4 star:		(72)
3 star:		(30)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

A worthy edition of Child's Play hits shelves on September 9th as a nice appetizer before Halloween which is most horror fans version of Christmas. What better gift then a good guy doll.

Chucky has become a horror icon over the years. Directed by horror contributor Tom Holland who also directed Fright Night. Holland also wrote Psycho II and the screenplays for the brutal Class of 1984 and the classic 80s film Cloak & Dagger. Another horror regular Brad Dourif and that voice, he makes Chucky a doll version of Samuel L. Jackson's, Jules, from Pulp Fiction. Most notably his response to being thrown in the fire. Dourif along with the Fx team helped create one of the best doll horror movies. Other good one's that come to mind are the Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror and Stuart Gordon's Dolls.

The original dvd:
Originally Child's Play contained a non widescreen edition. As for special features it contained a collectible behind the scenes booklet that wasn't very collectible. If you'd like a real write up on Child's Play check out the somewhat new magazine HorrorHound. In issue #10 they do a in depth retrospective on the Child's Play series. I highly recommend this magazine as well, unlike Fangoria it does more articles on horror over the years instead of just new stuff.

The 20th Anniversary Edition:
Special Features
- Commentary track with creator/writer Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner.
- A second track with FX guru Kevin Yagher, Catherine Hicks (Kevin's wife; they met on the film), and now-grown-up Alex Vincent.
- A third track with Mancini and Chucky (Brad Dourif voicing in character).
- The film itself is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen.
- Making-of documentary blending archival footage with new, on-camera interviews with Mancini, Kirschner, Yagher, Hicks, Vincent, Chris Sarandon, John Lafia and Brad Dourif.
All this commentary should blow away the 1 page "collectible" piece of paper with the original dvd release.

I'd also recommend to those who like the series, which I do, (there a fun time) to pick up Chucky - The Killer DVD Collection, for those into cover art there is a doll of Chucky coming out of the cover with various weapons he can choose from on the side.

Hope this helps.

Forget Seed of Chucky, Bride of Chucky, and the other two sequels that came after this surprisingly good horror romp. Tom Holland (Fright Night) directed this horror romp, in which the soul of a deranged killer inhabits a child's doll. Child's Play manages to boast a few genuine scares and add some creepy atmosphere to boot, with Brad Dourif doing great work as the voice of killer "good guy" doll Chucky. I won't go into the plot, since everyone pretty much already knows it, but what I will say is that this is about ten times better than any movie to feature the killer doll released since, and surprisingly the film hasn't aged too badly. All in all, if you've never seen the original Child's Play, give it a try; although I wish the DVD were presented in widescreen.

This is the best Child's Play/Chucky movie of all time! It was actuallly HORROR and scared me when I was a kid. This movie deserves to be bought, great acting, great entertainment, great horror. Watch this!!!!!

There are two reasons why Child's Play didnt get five stars from me.One:There are no special features what so ever(i love it when DVDs have two disks).Two:ONLY IN FULL SCREEN.MGM needs to release this in widescreen format very soon.

What a classic horror flick. And what a great way to screw it up. Full screen video, terrible audio, and a picture that makes my old VHS copy shine. No special features... I'd previously gotten the set that starts with the second movie, which is a very well thought-out set. From that to this. Bargain bin effort at best. I recommend waiting and hoping that they release at *least* a wide screen version in the states. Theres cheap software that will clean up the video and audio *for* MGM. They would barely have to lift a finger. Truly Disappointed. Truly, Truly.

I really love this movie. First of all, it ended that terrible my buddy phase with children. I remembered my sister had one of the "My Buddy" dolls (which look like Chucky) and once she saw the TV commerical for this movie she threw it away in the fireplace. I don't blame her, Chucky is very scary at some sequences in this movie. The director probably intended that, because almost every one is scared of dolls. I mean look at them with their human like eyes, they look like they're thinking about something, it really disturbs me. So let's talk about the actually movie now. The opening sequence introduces you to Chucky, a serial killer who is in quite a bind with the police as of now. At the end of the chase Chucky ends up in a toy store and is shot. His dying words are a strange voodoo curse (which strangely resemble the ingredients of Arby's food) that transfer his soul to another body. The body is, you guessed it a doll. Then, the film is interrupted with a CHEESY CARTOON! You have to see the good guy doll commercial, you won't forget it anytime soon. So, some dorky child witnesses this atrocity and for some strange, unknown reason he wants to buy a good guy doll. His mom goes to her favorite toy buying source, some ugly stinky HOBO! Yes sir, I turn to hobos for my consumer needs as well. Anyway, she buys a good guy doll from the old heffer and brings it to her overjoyed little squirt. Soon after STRANGE THINGS begin to occur. (Ex: The boy asks if his doll can...WATCH THE 9'OCLOCK NEWS HOW SHOCKING!) Anyway some people start dying and murder by murder they begin to realize that the hobo ripped them off...BIG TIME! Some very scary stuff though in this movie. A reccommended buy for anyone with even a remote interest in horror.

Scariest Moment (thrill spoiler): Catherine Hicks picks up the doll and looks in it's back only to reveal it never had batteries in it. Then Chucky's head spins around and screams, "I'm CHUCKY WANNA PLAY?" That scene made me turn off the movie for a while so i could relax.

that movie was so great it was really scary and it really had you going. i never thought that i would get scared just by watching a killer doll man they made they made the doll look so real.

This was the best of the bunch! The sequels were pretty good, but didn't compare to this one. When Chucky was running around, I couldn't figure out whether it was a real person, or a doll. It looked pretty creepy. This wasn't the scariest movie I've ever seen, but it was definitely a cool movie to watch, and very well-made! If you have dolls in the house, after you watch this movie, you're gonna wish you didn't!

This movie is definitly one of the best if not the best doll movies to be released. A great classic at that.

PLot- A man dying of a gun shot put his dying soul in a Good Guy Doll ( Chucky ) through Voodoo magic. Only to now have to find a body to transfer his soul to before becoming human.

This movie is great no doubt an excellent plot with some good acting, and a doll named Chucky that is pure evil and will kill anything that gets in his way.

the movie never bores and keeps you watching and at many times Chucky releases little lines of humor which are fyunny, but the humor in this movie is not over done and really none at all besides what Chucky say on those 2 or 3 times. This movie is meant to be a hgorror and a serious one at that which is what i respect.

Cant really compare it to anything as it in much of a way is very origional of a plot.

the funny thing is I rate it so high and talk so highly of it yet i wont shell out the $10 for it, I guess i always know it will be around so ill get it when i feel like it.

A serial killer has mysterious disappeared from the cops and found tumbled into a toy store after being shot by one of the policeman. He must find something to transfer his soul into another form of a body that will keep him alive until he can a living host. So he finds one of the childrens most favorite dolls known as the Good Guy dolls. He tranfers his soul into the doll and find a person to retransfer it into a human. If you ask me, I'd say this movie had suprisingly good special effects in the movie. Especially on the Chucky doll. Brad Douif does a great job on the voice of Chucky as he goes killing people without anyone knowing who he really is, except for the fact that he is a walking, talking, stalking, doll. The trouble starts as a little boy's dream was to get a Good Guy doll for Christmas and so the mother starts to panic, that she can't find one. But a strange man as just apparently had a Good Guy doll for sale. When the little boy gets the doll for Christmas...and well, you should know what happens from then on! Chucky's back, Jack!