Child's Play 3 (1991)

## Overview

Eight years after Chucky's second demise, the Play Pals company has recovered from the bad publicity of Chucky's murder sprees and resumes manufacturing Good Guy dolls. The company restores the abandoned factory. A splash of blood from Chucky's corpse is inadvertently mixed in with the plastic being used to produce the dolls, reviving him in a new body. Chucky is given to Play Pals CEO Mr. Sullivan. Chucky tortures and strangles him to death with a yo-yo, then uses computer records to locate Andy Barclay.

Now aged 16, Andy has been sent to Kent Military Academy after failing to cope in several foster homes. Colonel Cochrane, the school's commandant, begrudgingly enrolls Andy but advises him to forget his "fantasies" about the doll. Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst; Ronald Tyler, an 8-year-old cadet he met while waiting for a haircut at Kent; and Kristin DeSilva, for whom he develops romantic feelings. He also meets Brett C. Shelton, a sadistic lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets. Shortly after Andy arrives, Tyler is asked to deliver a package to his room. Tyler realizes that the package contains a Good Guy doll and takes it to the cellar to open it, only to have Chucky burst free from the package.

Chucky is incensed to find Tyler instead of Andy, but remembering that he can possess the first person who learns his true identity, tells Tyler his secret. Before Chucky can enact the ritual, Cochrane interrupts them and confiscates the doll, throwing it into a garbage truck. However, Chucky escapes by luring the driver into the truck's compactor and crushing him. That night, Chucky attacks Andy and tells him his plans for taking over Tyler's body instead of his. Before Andy can fight back, Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy then sneaks into Shelton's room to recover it but Sheldon awakens to confront him, only to find that Chucky has vanished.

Suspecting the doll was stolen, Sheldon forces all the cadets to do exercises as punishment. Tyler and Chucky play "hide the soul" in Cochrane's office, where Chucky attempts to possess Tyler again. However, they are interrupted by DeSilva and fellow cadet Ivers, before Cochrane himself enters a little later. The cadets sneak out undetected, but a knife-wielding Chucky surprises Cochrane, unintentionally shocking him into suffering a fatal heart attack. The next morning, Andy tries to convince Tyler that Chucky is evil, but Tyler refuses to believe him. Meanwhile, Chucky kills the camp barber Sergeant Botnick by slashing his throat with a razor after Botnick tries to give Chucky a haircut. Whitehurst witnesses this and flees.

Despite Cochrane's death, the school's annual war games are ordered to proceed as planned, with Andy and Shelton on the same team. However, Chucky has secretly replaced the paint bullets of the Red team with live ammunition. When the simulation begins, Chucky gets Tyler away from his team. Finally realizing that Andy was telling the truth, Tyler stabs Chucky with a pocket knife and flees to find Andy. Chucky then attacks Kristin and holds her hostage, attempting to lure the teams into fighting each other to save her. Chucky forces Andy to exchange Kristin for Tyler.The Blue team shows up and discovers the situation with Chucky, and Shelton thinks that Andy had gone awol to join the Red team, without realizing there is a bigger situation at hand. Suddenly, the Red team descends upon the area and obliviously opens fire with their live rounds; Shelton is killed in the crossfire.

Tyler escapes amidst the chaos, but before giving chase, Chucky tosses a fragmentation grenade at the quarrelling cadets. Whitehurst leaps on top of the grenade and sacrifices himself to save the others. Andy and Kristin pursue Chucky and Tyler into a haunted house roller-coaster at a nearby carnival. Chucky kills a security guard, kidnaps Tyler, and shoots Kristin in the leg, leaving Andy to fight Chucky alone. When Tyler is inadvertently knocked out, Chucky seizes the opportunity to possess him, but Andy intervenes by shooting Chucky several times. Enraged, Chucky attempts to strangle Andy, but he uses Tyler's knife to cut off Chucky's hand. Chucky is thrown into a giant metal fan below and is shredded to pieces, killing him. Afterwards, the police take Andy into custody and Kristin is rushed to the hospital.

## Cast

* Justin Whalin as Andy Barclay
* Perrey Reeves as Kristin De Silva
* Jeremy Sylvers as Ronald Tyler
* Travis Fine as Cadet Lt. Col. Brett C. Shelton
* Dean Jacobson as Harold Aubrey Whitehurst
* Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky
* Peter Haskell as Sullivan
* Dakin Matthews as Col. Francis Cochrane
* Andrew Robinson as Sgt. Botnick
* Burke Byrnes as Sgt. Clark
* Matthew Walker as Ellis
* Donna Eskra as Jackie Ivers
* Edan Gross as voice of Good Guy doll
* Terry Wills as Garbage Man
* Richard Marion as Patterson
* Laura Owens as Lady Executive
* Ron Fassler as Petzold
* Michael Chieffo as Security Guard
* Henry G. Sanders as Major
* Catherine Hicks as Karen Barclay (photograph)