Curse of Chucky

***Curse of Chucky*** is a 2013 horror film starring Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Summer H. Howell, Alex Vincent and Fiona Dourif. It is the sixth film in the *Child's Play*/*Chucky* series and was the first to be released direct to home video, like Cult of Chucky. The film was written and directed by Don Mancini, the creator of the *Chucky* franchise.

## Plot

In 2013 (twenty-five years after the first film and nine years after the fifth film), a Good-Guys doll calling itself Chucky mysteriously arrives in the mail at the home of paraplegic Nica Pierce and her mother Sarah. They live in an isolated house in a bad state of repair. Sarah is shown repeatedly painting pictures of the same flowers. Later that night, Sarah is found dead from a stab wound, and her death is ruled as a suicide.

Later, Nica is visited by her sister Barb, accompanied by her husband Ian, their daughter Alice, live-in nanny Jill, and Father Frank. Alice finds Chucky and is allowed to keep him. That evening, while Alice and Nica are making chili, 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. Officer Stanton later arrives to see the body. That night, Nica wonders where the doll came from and calls the package tracking center and is informed that it came from an evidence depository. She investigates Chucky on the internet and finds news articles about the murders tied to both the doll and Charles Lee Ray.

Elsewhere, Chucky comes to life again and kicks a bucket of rainwater onto the floor's power outlets, electrocuting Jill and causing a blackout. Barb gets up to search for Alice. She goes to the attic, clutching Chucky all the time, and finds Sarah's large collection of paintings of the same flower. She finds a large knife inside Chucky's shirt and peels some of Chucky's fake skin, revealing the stitches created by his ex-girlfriend Tiffany in Bride of Chucky. Chucky springs to life and stabs her in the eye with a kitchen knife. Nica hears Barb's scream but has to crawl up the stairs. Once upstairs, Nica discovers that Barb is dead and Chucky is alive. When Chucky flees, Nica wakes Ian up in a panic. Ian takes Nica to the garage but is unable to find Alice. He disarms Nica, foolishly believing her to be responsible for the murders.

Nica tries to explain that Chucky is alive, but Chucky acts like a lifeless doll when Ian looks at him. Ian decides to review the footage from a hidden camera that he planted on Chucky earlier (to get evidence of Barb's 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 before he can act. Nica manages to break out of her restraints and avoids an axe to the chest by blocking it with her numb legs. The axe gets stuck, allowing Nica to stun Chucky into dropping the axe, and she pulls it out of her legs and beheads him. As Nica tries to cover her wound, Chucky reattaches his head as her attention lapses, and Chucky pushes Nica off her wheelchair and over a 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 in love with Sarah. Ray killed Nica's father and kidnapped Sarah while she was pregnant with Nica. Charles brings flowers to the kidnapped Sarah, which are the same sort of flowers that Sarah was shown compulsively painting. When Sarah betrayed him, he stabbed her in the stomach (which resulted in Nica being born paraplegic) and escaped. Ray's flight 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 for his inability to kill his original nemesis Andy Barclay, manages to retreat into her elevator, disarm Chucky and plunge the dagger into his torso, which does not exactly kill him. Officer Stanton, the same officer who found Father Frank's body, arrives at the house, knowing that it's where Father Frank spent his last hours, and he sees Nica holding the bloody knife near Barb's body. A motionless Chucky watches from a nearby chair. Some time later, Nica is sent to a mental asylum for the criminally insane. Chucky is retained by the police as an exhibit for her trial. Officer Stanton gets in his car and sees Chucky breathing in the bag. Just before he opens the bag, Tiffany, who had been hiding in the backseat, slits his throat with a nail file. Tiffany collects Chucky and asks "Who's next?" before closing the bag. She 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 persuades Alice to play "Hide the Soul", and starts the infamous voodoo chant to transfer his soul into Alice's body. The grandmother, who Chucky has attacked but did not kill, sits up suddenly, suffocating in a plastic bag, during the chant. 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 pointing a shotgun at him. Andy tells Chucky "play with this", before shooting him in the head.

## Good Qualities

1. The real reason for the existence of this sixth film within the Chucky franchise was that Don Mancini wanted to redeem the Chucky franchise after the poor reception of Bride and Seed of Chucky because of how comical this two films were compared to the first three films.
2. A Nice attempt to return to the tone of the first three films.
3. The storyline for this film in the series is not degrading and is on-balance.
4. The film's cinematography is very good and is much better than the cinematography of Seed of Chucky: several shots doesn’t feature fake-looking scenarios exterior and the photography looks like The Conjuring . This is impressive when you realize that the film is a direct-to-video movie, even if it looks like a theatrically-released one.
5. The special effects are pretty good
6. The score is the best of the series
7. Very good scenes like The elevator’s scene and Andy shooting Chucky.
8. Great quotes (e.g. When Chucky kills a Woman and says "Women... you can't live with them. Period." or when Andy shoots Chucky and says "play with this")
9. The film explores more about Charle’s backstory and we know his past before The events of the first film.
10. The previous films have scenes that are not only scary, but are also meant to amusing. However, a majority of scenes in this film are meant to be scary and it has a more dark tone than the first five films.
11. Unlike Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky that are meant to be comedy films, this film in the series is meant to be dark, gritty and scary.
	* Also, this movie is more gritty and dark than the original trilogy (1988-1991) in its tone.
12. Seeing Andy Barclay back, as an adult, is a fanservice to the fans. And it is so great see Alex Vincent as Andy again.
	* Alex Vincent is back as Andy and shooting Chucky it's gratifying to know what the key went through in the first three movies.
13. Nica, for some reason, is easily a great new addition to the franchise and we see that people around her treat her unequally because she is paraplegic.
14. Great dialogue.
15. Good puppetry for Chucky by Tony Gardner
16. Great writing and directing by Don Mancini, the creator of Chucky, And a big improvement over Seed of Chucky
17. Good Death scenes, such as:
	* Chucky killing a burnt blonde woman while using a computer
	* Chucky killing Ian by Axing his jaw.
	* Barb discovering Chucky's scars and him shoving a knife in her eyes.
	* The scene of the poisoned Soup at dinner that makes a suspense for us to question who took the poisoned soup, until we find out that it was Father Frank.

## Bad Qualities

1. The fake look of Chucky without scars is strange and uncanny.
2. The scene where Tiffany kills a police man is a copy from Bride of Chucky.
3. The blood of this movie is fake and gives to realize what was done in CGI.

## Reception

### Critical Response

The film currently holds a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10.

### Box Office

*Curse of Chucky* grossed $3.8 million against its $2.8 million budget.

## Trivia

1. Originally, the film would have been called Revenge of Chucky and it would have been a comedy (like Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky) about Chucky, Tiffany and Glenda fighting against Andy, Tiffany, Glen, Tyler, Kristen DeSilva, Karen Barclay, Mike Norris and Kyle. But the script was changed because of the poor reception of Seed of Chucky because Seed of Chucky was a comedy like Bride of Chucky and not a horror movie like the original trilogy (1988-1991). So, this idea was cancelled and Don Mancini made Curse of Chucky instead of Revenge of Chucky.
2. A sequel called Cult of Chucky was made in 2017 and Don Mancini confirmed a tv series about Chucky on SyFy that Will be released in October, 12 as a sequel of Cult of Chucky.

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