Child's Play (2019)

Child's Play is a 2019 American horror film directed by Lars Klevberg and written by Tyler Burton Smith. The cast of the film consists of Gabriel Bateman, Aubrey Plaza, and Brian Tyree Henry. It is a remake of the 1988 film of the same name and was a reboot of the Child's Play film series. It follows a family terrorized by a high-tech doll who becomes self-aware and subsequently murderous.
The film was released in the United States on June 21, 2019 by United Artists Releasing under the company as Orion Pictures, it received mixed response from critics with Rotten Tomatoes calls it "predictably gruesome" and "generally entertaining". It was a box office success, grossing $45 million worldwide against its $10 million budget.
==Plot==
Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accordingly, quickly becoming a worldwide success. At a Kaslan assembly factory in Vietnam, an overworked employee is fired by his supervisor for unsatisfactory performance. In retaliation, he tampers with the Buddi doll that he is assembling by disabling all of its safety protocols before committing suicide. The doll is packaged alongside others for its international delivery.
In Chicago, widowed retail clerk Karen Barclay and her twelve-year-old hearing-impaired son Andy have moved into a new apartment. In an attempt to cheer Andy up for the relocation and the presence of her new boyfriend Shane, Karen blackmails her boss in order to procure a Buddi doll, giving it to Andy as an early birthday gift. It is revealed to be the defective model. Once activated, the doll names himself "Chucky" and becomes attached to Andy. Over time, Chucky helps him to befriend two other children, Falyn and Pugg, but also begins to display violent tendencies. He tries to strangle the Barclays' pet cat after it scratches Andy and, while he and his friends gleefully watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Chucky starts mimicking the violence, approaching the trio with a kitchen knife before Andy disarms him.
When Andy arrives home the next morning, he finds that his cat is dead. Chucky admits to having killed it so that it would not hurt Andy again. Karen locks the doll in a closet, but he escapes and terrorizes Shane, which leads him to confront Andy. Misunderstanding Andy's pleas for Shane to disappear, Chucky follows him to his home, where it is revealed that Shane is married with children and is having an affair with Karen behind his wife's back. While Shane is outside taking down Christmas lights, Chucky breaks his legs and activates a cultivator that scalps and kills him. The following day, Chucky delivers Shane's skinned face as a gift to a horrified Andy.
While police detective Mike Norris begins an investigation, Andy, Falyn, and Pugg disable Chucky and throw him into the garbage. Voyeur electrician Gabe finds and fixes the doll to sell him in an online sale. Now fully functional, Chucky tortures Gabe with a knife and uses a table saw to kill him. Making his way back to the apartment, Chucky lands in possession of another child, Omar, and proceeds to kill Norris' mother Doreen in a controlled car crash. Meanwhile, Andy fails to convince Karen that the doll has become murderous and she takes him along to her work at the local shopping mall to keep him nearby. Suspecting that Andy is responsible of the murders, Norris travels to the mall and arrests him just as Chucky takes full control of the building.
Chaos is unleashed as several employees and customers are brutally killed by rampaging Buddi dolls while Chucky triggers the mall's lockdown sequence. Norris is wounded among the massacre, and Andy and his friends manage to escape. However, Andy is forced to return when Chucky reveals that he is holding Karen hostage. Andy travels to the mall's storage and saves his mother as the doll attacks him. He overpowers Chucky and stabs him in his power cell before Norris shoots the doll down and Karen beheads him. As the police and paramedics tend to Karen, Norris, and other survivors outside the mall, Andy and his friends burn Chucky's body in a nearby alleyway.
In the aftermath of Chucky's killing spree, Kaslan CEO Henry Kaslan issues a statement regarding Chucky's faulty programming, and announces a massive Buddi dolls recall. As one of the dolls is being placed into storage, his eyes flicker red and smiles, revealing that Chucky transferred his self-awareness into a new body.
==Cast==
*Gabriel Bateman as Andy Barclay
*Aubrey Plaza as Karen Barclay
*Brian Tyree Henry as Det. Mike Norris
*Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky
==Videos==
===Trailers===
thumb|left|185 px|Trailer #2
thumb|left|185px|Trailer #1
thumb|left|185 px|Kaslan Corporation Special Announcement
thumb|left|185 px|Chucky Voice Announcementthumb|left|195 px|Composer Announcement
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