Curse of Chucky

Plot synopsis:
Set four years after the conclusion of the previous film. Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), arrives mysteriously in the mail to the family home of paraplegic Nica (Fiona Dourif) and her mother, Sarah. Sarah, not knowing who sent Chucky, throws him in the garbage. Later that night, Nica hears Sarah screaming in pain and finds her dead from a self-inflicted stab wound as Chucky watches from a nearby chair.The next day, Nica is grieving over the gruesome suicide of her mother when her domineering older sister Barb (Danielle Bisutti) arrives in town, with her family: husband, Ian; daughter, Alice; and live-in nanny, Jill, to help settle their mothers affairs. Also present is Father Frank, a priest that came to counsel the family. Alice finds Chucky in the bathroom and develops a friendship with him.After Nica and Alice cook chili for dinner, they leave the kitchen to set the dinner table. In their absence, Chucky pours rat poison into one of the bowls. As night falls, Father Frank and the family sit down and eat. Father Frank leaves as a thunderstorm starts. Emergency personnel arrive at the scene of a car accident and find Father Frank, disoriented from the rat poison, pinned at the throat by the roof of his car. Firefighters remove the car's roof, unintentionally severing his head.Back at the house, Nica, Barb, Jill, and a half-asleep Ian are watching old home movies. Nica notices a human Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray in one of the movies. Alice comes downstairs and notifies everyone that Chucky is gone. Nica finds the return address from the package Chucky arrived in. She tries to call the number, but the storm is causing on and off blackouts and blocking cellphone signals. Jill puts Alice to bed and starts looking for Chucky. While in the kitchen, Barb comes in and passionately kisses Jill, indicating an affair. Nica returns to the living room and finds Chucky sitting on the sofa next to a sleeping Ian. Nica uses the house elevator to take Chucky to Alice, but a blackout occurs and Chucky cuts her leg with a knife. The power returns and the elevator takes Nica to the second floor where Alice takes Chucky and goes to bed.After everyone else goes to their rooms, Nica goes downstairs and looks up "Chucky Doll Evidence" on the internet, where she reads the stories of his murders and realizes that Chucky is alive. Jill goes to Alice's room, strips down to her underwear, and starts video chatting with Barb in another bedroom next to Ian. While talking in video chat Barb tries to warn Jill that Alice is up (not knowing that is Chucky). Jill looks down and sees Chucky holding a knife. Chucky kicks a bucket of rain water over. The water touches Jill's feet and a power outlet, electrocuting her to death and causing another blackout. Barb goes to check on Alice. A now awake Ian questions who Barb is really checking on, indicating that he put a nanny cam on Chucky and knows about the affair. Barb leaves the room after Ian puts in earplugs to tune her out.Barb finds Chucky sitting on stairs that lead to the attic. Thinking that Alice is in the attic, Barb picks up Chucky and goes up to look for her. Meanwhile,with the elevator unusable due to the blackout, Nica crawls up the stairs to the second floor. In the attic, Barb notices the knife in Chucky's overalls. She sets Chucky down on a trunk and continues her search for Alice. Barb turns around and sees Chucky sitting on a shelf. She notices that parts of Chucky's face is peeling. Barb peels off the plastic coating on Chucky's face, exposing his stitches and scars from the previous film. Chucky comes alive and gouges out one of Barb's eyes with his knife.
Nica makes it to the attic's stairs. Chucky throws Barb's eyeball down the stairs. Barb then falls down the stairs dead. Chucky makes his way down the stairs towards Nica. Nica gets a wheelchair from the hallway closet and rolls away with Chucky in pursuit. Nica stops at Alice's room and sees that she has disappeared. Nica makes it to Ian and alerts him of the situation. A skeptical Ian wheels Nica to the garage, then goes back to the house to find Alice, instead finding Jill's and Barb's dead bodies. Chucky locks himself in a car in the garage, starts it, and tries to kill Nica with carbon monoxide poisoning. Nica finds a hatchet and smashes a car window to attack Chucky. Ian returns to the garage and sees Nica with the hatchet. Ian, now suspecting Nica of the murders, disarms her. The stress of the entire situation causes Nica to suffer a heart attack and lose consciousness.
Nica regains consciousness. Ian has tied her to her wheelchair and looks at footage from the nanny cam that Chucky is not responsible for the murders. The footage shows that Chucky is alive and hid Alice in a closet and the affair between Barb and Jill. Chucky comes in and uses Nica's wheelchair to run Ian over. Chucky then uses the hatchet to chop off Ian's lower jaw, killing him. Chucky attacks Nica lodging the hatchet into her knee, but she manages to break out of her restraints and knock out Chucky. Chucky gets back up and Nica uses the hatchet to decapitate him.Nica turns her back to tend to her wounds. Chucky gets up and reattaches his head. Chucky then grabs Nica's wheelchair, pushes her down the hall and through the balcony. Nica falls to the ground floor. Chucky walks downstairs and taunts Nica. Nica asks why Chucky is doing this. Through flashbacks, Chucky explains that he was a friend of the family. He was in love with Sarah, but she was married and pregnant with Nica. Chucky killed Sarah's husband and kidnapped her some time after the funeral. After Sarah rejects him, Chucky stabs her in the stomach before fleeing from the police. The stab to Sarah's stomach is what caused Nica to be born a paraplegic. The kidnapping led to Chucky's death as a human, setting off the chain of events of the franchise.
The electricity returns long enough for Nica to make it into the elevator. Chucky cuts Nica's fingers before dropping the knife into the elevator. Nica, now holding the knife, urges Chucky to attack her. Chucky lunges at Nica and is stabbed in the back. Nica attempts to leave the elevator, but Chucky springs back to life. A police officer arrives at the house and hears Nica scream. He enters the house and sees Nica in the elevator still holding the bloody knife. He looks around and sees Barb's body upstairs while Chucky watches from a nearby chair.Some time later, Nica is found guilty of the murders and sent to an asylum. As Nica is being wheeled out of court, she taunts Chucky (a piece of evidence) that she is still alive. The arresting officer takes Chucky and prepares to take it to an unknown person, and tells the unknown person at the other end of the phone to have his money ready. The officer sees the plastic bag Chucky is in moving because of his breathing. Before he looks inside, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) pops up in the backseat and slits his throat. Tiffany then mails Chucky to his next target.Alice, now living with her grandmother, comes home from school. Alice looks for her grandmother, but finds Chucky instead. She asks where her grandmother is and Chucky replies "in the cellar". Chucky persuades Alice to play "Hide The Soul". The camera pans away as Chucky says the chant that will transfer his soul to Alice's body. Before the screen cuts to black, Alice's screaming grandmother pops up on the screen with a plastic bag over her head.After the credits, Chucky is delivered to the now adult Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent). When Andy turns his back to answer a phone call from his mother, Chucky cuts his way out of the package. Chucky looks at an old photo of Andy and his mother from when he was a kid, before turning his attention to Andy. Andy, anticipating Chucky coming after him, holds a shotgun to Chucky's head. Chucky is surprised when Andy remarks, "Play with this", before pulling the trigger.

Tags: comedy, murder, paranormal, violence, horror, flashback, sadist, home movie

Review:
Sure, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead, Leatherface and Freddy Krueger were all instrumental in my fascination and divulgence into the horror genre - but the possessed Good Guys doll by the name of Chucky was always my favorite of the tentpole franchises.It is hard to fathom that it was 25 years ago when Chucky was first launched into our pop culture references with Child's Play.
Directed to Tom Holland on a story by Don Mancini, the 1988 horror surprised most everyone with a $35 million box office gross against a paltry $9 million budget.Sequels ensued with Child's Play 2 (1990), Child's Play 3 (1991), Bride of Chucky (1998) and Seed of Chucky (2004).
Through each film, the horror seemed lessened by the increasing use of black humor scattered amongst the bloodshed.This is not to suggest that the Child's Play franchise lost its way, but it did veer off the original path.
There are a few scenes where our villain gets to show real emotion using his rubber face and it is the technology that a lot of horror enthusiasts despise that is at the root of the improvements.Mancini did go back to the roots with the story that focuses more on the development of the horror rather than the slapstick funduggery that overly consumed Bride and Seed of Chucky.
Replacing much of the pop culture referencing in-jokes are some tense moments of horror and some valued kills that value quality over quantity.Curse of Chucky goes places unexpected for a fifth sequel and it betters any of the films that preceded it in the series.
A solid story – one with flashback ties that support Chucky's choice of family terrorizing and some after the credit scenes that tie in the rest of the series – compliments the action and sets the stage for what we hope is the continuation of the franchise.www.killerreviews.com.
Often pushed to a second tier among other iconic horror franchises like Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, the murderous misadventures of Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray have been just as persistent and influential as those other game changing series.
Almost 25 years on we now get Curse of Chucky, a direct to home video instalment – a rather unceremonious release which certainly did not instil confidence in this horror fan.
There will certainly be some who will overlook the more clever elements of Curse of Chucky and hone in on what remains ordinary, but for me it was time well spent and easily introduces a new spark to the franchise and shows there is life yet in everyone's favourite killer doll..
From the outset there's an updated excellently designed Chucky doll and Joseph Loduca's melodic eerie music score which sets the tone.There's plenty of atmosphere in this installment from series veteran Don Mancini, with Curse sharing much with the Psycho films in design and pace.
For die hard Child's Play fans Dourif appears briefly in his serial killer Charles Lee Ray guise, some old photos and newspaper clippings feature Andy and scene's link direct to the first outing.What the production has saved on the lack of locations, to it's credit, the money has been put into the excellent special effects.
Mancini returns it to its Child's Play roots while making references to the rest of the series including a great cameo from one of it's most colourful characters.It delivers with its back to horror basics approach, updated effects, Mancini's Hitchcockian execution and links to its previous counterparts.
When Nica (Fiona Dourif) and her mother Sarah (Chantal Quesnelle) receive a package containing a doll named Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), they immediately think there is a mistake.
Chucky is back, and he's ready to bring things full circle.The fifth sequel in the Child's Play series comes to us Straight to DVD.
What really makes Curse one of the better sequels in the series is the final act, as well as the ending, AND the post-credits scene, all of which will surely excite fans of the series.
It kind of annoys me that such a modest, but brilliantly executed, film like this goes STDVD when pretentious piffle like Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby gets sharted over every screen in America.I got the sense that everyone involved in this movie committed 100% to making an exciting piece of clever and entertaining genre filmmaking.
Often, horror movies that deviate from formula come out disastrous, but Chucky reinvented itself as a series with Bride and Seed of.
95 minutes (unrated cut: 97 minutes) Plot: Proving that you just can't keep a Good Guy down, everyone's favorite homicidal maniac-trapped-inside-of-a-doll, Chucky (voiced by the indispensable Brad Dourif), has returned for more shenanigans in "Curse Of Chucky." This time he's landed in the lap of wheelchair-bound Nica (Fiona Dourif), herself hosting a houseful of grief-stricken family members.
Friends 'til the end indeed.Writing and Directing:In the wake of 2004's ultra-meta "Seed Of Chucky," writer/director Don Mancini keeps the plot clean and clutter-free with "Curse," letting the tension and bloodshed do most of the speaking.
The film looks and feels like a theatrical release, when it was clearly intended as a direct-to-video affair from the get-go.Cast: Fiona Dourif is a revelation as Nica.
The man himself, Brad Dourif, gets a significant amount of screen-time not as Chucky (who barely utters a line until half-way through the movie) but as Charles Lee Ray, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler from way-back.
It's a far cry from the Graeme Revell and Pino Dinaggio works of yesteryear (or even the heavy metal assault of "Bride Of Chucky"), but it gets the job done.The Bottom Line(s): "Curse Of Chucky" is, in many ways, everything a fan could want from a sixth "Child's Play" flick.
The movie is shot and edited to build suspense and is a world apart from the sitcom trappings of Seed.A girl in a wheelchair (Brad Dourif's hot daughter Fiona) living in a rural home with her troubled mother receives a mysterious package one afternoon.
But I guess that expecting the movie to go in a different direction only led to further surprises when it eventually did tie in to the previous movies as well as giving us more back-story to Charles Lee Ray.I was worried that Chucky would be all CGI as Kevin Yagher has not been involved with the series since Bride, and while there IS some CGI, he's anamatronic for the most part.
This was made to entertain fans of the series and to give chucky a fitting end, instead of the complete trash that was seed of chucky.If you liked the first 3 child's play movies, you will LOVE this!
And after the intro, it all falls down the hill: you are "hit" with close-ups every 30 seconds or so, some very weak misleads wannabe for the "fun" of it, terrible actors, terrible doll behavior, terrible sounds and plot.As I said, 3 minutes after the film started I was on the edge of my seat, "man oh man, finally, another great Chucky!".
This is a terrible, terrible movie, looks more like one of them sequels when everybody involved in the making of the first ones abandon the project, a complete new staff comes and make a direct-on-DVD release.
I agree the film before this was not all that great either to be honest childs play is the best and my personal favorite is the Bride of Chucky because you really got to see chuckys side way more.
So at this point a lot of fans have seen The Curse of Chucky and I can say that is a better film that the last two (I like "Bride" but I really hate the "Scream" approach).
Just plain awful regurgitated nonsense.You really should not have to work hard with that horrible doll to make a scary movie but in just every way the film just falls flat and and fails in every way.I realise its meant to be a bit stupid but if i really have to watch another person wonder how the scary doll moved from a-b and is concerned but then leaves their child with it to sleep with, or leaves a knife beside it etc etc i will scream.
I love the first three Child's play movies, and I'm mainly writing here to warn you: if you're an old school Chucky fan like me, you will most probably HATE "Curse of Chucky"!I was skeptical at first, but decided to watch it anyway as Don Mancini and Brad Dourif were still involved, so I figured it couldn't be that horrible.
I can only guess that Don Mancini is pretty bored with the Chucky character by now - understandable after so many years, but then just move on and don't bother boring audiences with uninspired drivel like this!While the first three Chucky movies featured great scripts, directing and acting, this time it is just on par with generic soap opera.
While the voice acting and dialog of Chucky was superbly scary and funny in the first movies, I would not be surprised if Brad Dourif recorded everything in less than an hour this time (according to the trivia he spent "less than a day").
'CURSE OF CHUCKY': Four Stars (Out of Five)The sixth film in the popular 'CHILD'S PLAY' slasher movie franchise.
It was written and directed by Don Mancini and once again (like all the other installments in the series) stars Brad Dourif as the voice of the infamous killer doll known as Chucky (one of my favorite movie villains).
This film takes place four years after the end of the previous movie and picks up with Chucky being mailed to a young woman, confined to a wheelchair, and her mother.
While it was released directly to VOD (and video shortly later), rather than theaters, it's still one of the best films in the franchise and a return to form for fans of the original!The film begins with Nica (Fiona Dourif) receiving a package in the mail.
We later learn things about Chucky's past (and Charles Lee Ray, the killer trapped inside the doll) and why he chose to stalk this family.Mancini originally envisioned the film as a reboot (or remake) due to the demand of fans (of the series) wanting to see it return to it's more serious horror roots (instead of the over-the-top comedic approach the franchise transitioned into, with the last two films).
I'm a big fan of the Chucky character and all of the movies, including the last two (which I thought were good but not as effective as the original and it's first sequel, the third film is probably my least favorite).
It's not nearly as classic as the original or as good as it's first sequel but it is nice to see it return to the elements of what made the series so good to begin with and it does a good job of tying all the films together in the end (including a post-credits scene, that you won't want to miss).
Mancini is a good horror film director and a great writer and Chucky is a slasher movie monster icon!
as a movie made in 2013, it is terrible.acting was decent, the lead actress was pretty good.plot elements were mesh mashed, they tried to add some background story to Charles Lee Ray the criminal who is trapped inside of Chucky, it was boring and uninteresting.MINOR SPOILER ahead Chucky wants to transfer into a human body, this time a girl's body, which was odd, why would Charles want to move into a female body ?
Curse of Chucky, as most previous Child's Play films, finds what can only be described as a very difficult balance between a lovable character and a psychopathic murderer.
The kills can be a little over the top but that shouldn't put any horror fan off watching it.The story is the best thing about this film.
His presence is very strong and chilling on screen much like in the original and the second film which puts "Curse Of Chucky" as a great horror film and killer sequel.
"Curse Of Chucky" is a awesome horror movie and one that any horror fan, especially of the "Child's Play" franchise will definitely enjoy..
Okay, the puppet actually looks worse than before but...BUT....Curse of Chucky is the first film in this franchise that feels like a horror movie and not like a horrorcomedy gone wrong.
25 years after Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky (voiced and played by Brad Douriff) was gunned down as he transferred his soul into a Good Guy doll and years after the events of Seed of Chucky, a young woman named Nica (Fiona Douriff) who is a wheelchair-bound lady with her mother Sarah (Chantal Quesnelle) receive a mysterious package containing a Good Guy doll.
Even a priest named Father Frank (A Martinez) is invited to dinner, yet Alice finds the Chucky doll as she wants to keep it but little does she know that Chucky will come to life and murder the house members one by one.This movie is TRULY AN EPIC FAIL ATTEMPT AT A SEQUEL AND PURE GARBAGE!
Cult of Chucky (2013) is a slasher horror film directed by Don Mancini and is the sixth installment of the Child Play series which began in 1988.
Because that wonderful word "nostalgia" seems to be at the forefront of the most recent entry in the "Child's Play" franchise, "Curse of Chucky." While technically the sixth film in the series, this one is quite old- fashioned, and seems to aim at tugging on the nostalgia of audiences who have grown up with the series.
So overall, I give the casts 9/10, the CGI 4/10, and the movie itself is 0/100.So don't waste your time watching this, don't even consider watching it...Child's Play was definitely so so much better than this one...horrible.horrible.horrible.plain horrible.yet no horror element in it.
Curse Of Chucky is a straight-to-video Horror sequel to the Child's Play series.
The doll comes to life, and starts picking off people one by one.Curse Of Chucky strays away from the Comedy aspect that Bride Of Chucky and Seed Of Chucky brought to us and goes back to the Horror aspect that the originals were loved for.
She was a big surprise to me.If you're a fan of Horror, and can forgive some of the clichés in the film, than you'll love Curse Of Chucky.
It's filled with some of the genre clichés, but luckily, they will probably not bother you that much - you are after all, watching XYZ sequel to Child's Play movie, which probably means you're either horror fan or fan of the series, so you're use to those typical clichés like lightning strikes, jump scares (which aren't many), one of the character (or characters) being complete idiots and oblivious to what's happening.Characters aren't very likable, not even Nica (played by Fiona).
Would go as far to say that it beats 'Bride of Chucky' as the best since the first and it vastly improves on the disappointing 'Seed of Chucky' which along with 'Child's Play 3' is my least favourite.Really appreciated that 'Curse of Chucky' returned to its roots and the closest of the sequels to capture the tone of the first film.
Also as a cherry on top he ties the film in with the first three child's play movies and bride and seed of chucky.
This movie is a real treat for all the chucky fans out there.The movie itself is certainly not a masterwork but for a child's play film its one of the best for sure.
We also get some good gore, and fun deaths.I have a feeling this movie is going to set the child's play franchise back on track.
Unfortunately Jennifer Tilly wasn't able to stay away from things altogether, but her cameo is brief and only kills the mood for a few minutes (better than a whole damn movie).Possibly the best Chucky film since the original, I really enjoyed this one.
It's nice to see that Mancini made ​​this film with the simple intention to give it to the fans, to those who saw the other five and took him affection that one takes for a character like Chuck in 25 years , here definitely closes a bow , Chucky 's story is told , and not much more to add to what is said in the 95 -minute film ( Wait till you see the scene after the credits and you'll see what I mean ) .
I like the original Child's Play movie I thought it was a dark classic 80s horror film.
It was the first movie in a popular series that still has nothing close to it in the horror genre.That said, now in 2013 after nine years, we get a new Chucky film.
The series already faced it's fate if it wanted to be a black comedy film like the last sequels or edgy horror like first two movies in the late 80's and early 90's.Curse of Chucky uses only one set and obviously was made with a smaller budget.
Brad Dourif does his usual good voice work for Chucky and Chucky does have a new look which gives him a little different vibe than before.Once the third act is about to come to a close and the DVD player is about to turned off, we see that the ending is ambitious and wants to do a lot of things.
(I actually jumped a few times) And what I like is that he also didn't ignore the continuity of the series -- without giving anything away, characters from previous movies come back (if you watch the unrated version, he even pays a visit to an "old friend" after the end credits), and they're also mentioned over the course of the film.There are a few story issues -- things that get explained that in reality would not make sense, for example.
I'm not saying this movie is an all time horror classic nor will it likely convert anyone that hates the Chucky series.