Curse of Chucky (2013)

## Overview

In 2013, a Good Guy doll called Chucky mysteriously arrives in the mail at the isolated home of paraplegic Nica Pierce and her mother Sarah. Sarah repeatedly and compulsively paints pictures of the same flowers. Later that night, Sarah is found dead from a stab wound and her death is ruled as a suicide.

Nica is visited by her sister Barb, accompanied by her husband Ian, their daughter Alice, live-in nanny Jill, and priest Father Frank. Alice finds Chucky and is allowed to keep him. That evening, while Alice and Nica are making chili for dinner, Chucky secretly pours rat poison into one of the dinner bowls. Father Frank eats the poison. After he leaves, he gets sick and ends up in a car accident that decapitates him. That night, Nica wonders where the doll came from and investigates Chucky on the internet; she finds news articles about the murders tied to both the doll and Charles Lee Ray.

Elsewhere, Chucky comes to life and electrocutes Jill, causing a blackout. Searching for Alice, Barb goes to the attic clutching Chucky and finds Sarah's large collection of paintings of the same flower. She finds a knife inside Chucky's shirt and peels some of Chucky's now-loose plastic skin, revealing the stitches created by his ex-girlfriend Tiffany hidden underneath. Chucky springs to life and stabs her in the eye. Nica hears Barb's scream and crawls up the stairs, discovering her body and the doll alive. When Chucky flees, Nica wakes Ian up in a panic, who is unable to find Alice. He disarms Nica, believing her to be responsible for the murders.

Nica tries to explain that Chucky is alive, but Chucky acts lifeless. Ian decides to review the footage from a nanny cam that he planted on Chucky earlier (to get evidence of Barb's suspected sexual affair with Jill) and learns that Alice is locked in a closet and that Chucky truly is alive. Exposed, Chucky kills Ian by chopping off his lower jaw with a hatchet. Nica manages to break out of her restraints and avoids the hatchet by blocking it with her numb legs. It gets stuck, allowing Nica to grab it and behead Chucky. As Nica covers her wound, Chucky reattaches his head and pushes Nica off the balcony onto the ground floor.

When Nica asks why Chucky is doing this, he explains through flashbacks that as Charles Lee Ray, he was a friend of her family and obsessed with Sarah. Ray killed Nica's father and kidnapped Sarah while she was pregnant with Nica. Charles brought dozens of flowers to the captive Sarah-- the same sort of flowers that Sarah compulsively painted. When Sarah betrayed him, he stabbed her in the stomach (which resulted in Nica being born paraplegic) and escaped. Ray's escape from the police ultimately led to his death as a human, which is why he came back to Sarah for revenge. Nica, after stalling by taunting him about his inability to kill former target Andy Barclay, manages to retreat into her home elevator, disarm Chucky and plunge the knife into his back. Chucky remains motionless for a while before springing back to life.

Officer Stanton, the same officer who found Father Frank's body, arrives at the house and sees Barb's body. Nica holds a bloody knife alone in the elevator while Chucky sits motionless in the corner of the room. Sometime later, Nica is blamed for the murders and sent to a mental asylum. Chucky is retained by Stanton after being used as an exhibit at her trial. Stanton is ambushed and killed by Tiffany, still in Jennifer Tilly's body. She collects Chucky and later goes to a packaging center to ship him off to a new victim. Meanwhile, Alice, now living with her grandmother, comes home from school to find Chucky waiting for her. Chucky starts the voodoo chant to transfer his soul into Alice's body, while in the next room, her grandmother suddenly sits up, with a bag over her head. As she gasps for air, the screen goes black.

In a post-credits scene set six months later, Chucky, still in his doll body, is delivered to Andy, now an adult. When Andy turns his back to answer a phone call from his mother, Chucky cuts his way out of the package with a knife. Chucky looks around the house, only to have Andy shoot him with a shotgun.

## Cast

* Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce
* Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray/Chucky
* Debbie Lee Carrington as Chucky (in-suit performer)
* Danielle Bisutti as Barb Pierce
* Brennan Elliott as Ian
* Maitland McConnell as Jill
* Chantal Quesnel as Sarah Pierce
* Summer H. Howell as Alice Pierce
* A Martinez as Father Frank
* Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine
* Adam Hurtig as Officer Stanton
* Jordan Gavaris as Ex-Delivery guy
* Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay
* Catherine Hicks as Karen Barclay (photograph, during post-credits scene)
* Chris Sarandon as Detective Mike Norris (archive footage)
* Christine Elise as Kyle (photograph, during post-credits scene)