I Like To Be Hugged (2022)

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Sam Berry - Piers

Lucy Spencer - Ashlyn

Madisyn Prindel - Mel Hughes

David "Haxon" Baker - Police Officer

## About

I Liked To Be Hugged (2022) is a Fan Film created by Iris Prindel, based off the Child Play's/Chucky Film Franchise. It was released October 31st 2022 as a Halloween Special. During The Gormaco Awards (2022), I Liked To Be Hugged won Best Film Production and Best Gormaco Production, also announced during the show, I Liked To Be Hugged is getting a sequel titled Friend Til' The End, set to release October 2023.

## Summary and Trailer

"Hadley receives what seems to be a normal good guy doll."

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## Plot Summary

### **SPOILERS FOR I LIKED TO BE HUGGED BELOW**

Hadley Hughes receives a Good Guy Doll named 'Chucky' mysteriously from a 'Tiffany Valentine'. Their sister Mel makes fun of the doll and tells them to bring it with them, Hadley not thinking much of getting the doll, does take it to school with them. Upon showing Chucky to their friends Piers and Lanna, Piers tries to buy Chucky off Hadley who refuses.

That night Hadley goes to bed with Chucky next to them, turning off the lights they hear footsteps and shuffling. They turn the lights back on freaked out, finding Chucky still in bed with them. They go back to bed, weirded out by the doll. The next morning, Hadley appears still a bit freaked out from the events of the night before, Hadley freezes up, hearing a voice in their head. Even more freaked out, Hadley willingly gives Chucky to Piers, no longer wanting to deal with the weird occurrences.

Piers takes the doll, happy at first but grows quickly annoyed by Chucky's constant talking voice lines and snapping. We then find Hadley in the bathroom, seemingly shaken up and frozen by unknown events, washing a red liquid off their hands. They snap out of it, hearing Lanna's scream, rushing out and finding Piers dead on the floor with Chucky mere inches away...

Hadley that night contacts their friend Ashlyn, who retells the events of the Chucky films to them, warning them to stay away from the doll. Hadley freaked out, mentions Piers had died much to Ashlyn's horror. Hadley then hears that same voice again, taunting them...

At school, Hadley brings the doll with them and warns Lanna about the possibility of Chucky being alive and being the one who killed Piers, angering Lanna who lashes out at them for blaming the doll and accuses Hadley of murdering Piers, taking Chucky and leaving to call the police. Hadley begs her to believe them, abruptly stopping as they hear the voice again. They find themselves back in the bathroom, the same red liquid coating their hands. They exit the bathroom, finding Lanna with her throat slit and the knife on the ground, Chucky sitting on the table next to her body.

Hadley brings Chucky home, promptly attempting to throw and burn him into the oven. Mel stops them, taking the doll for herself and refusing to help the freaked out Hadley. Hadley's cries growing quiet as they hear the voice, then finding themselves in their bed and with their hands covered- in what can be assumed by now,- blood. They frantically wash their hands, calling out to Mel before running down stairs and finding her body, throat silt and Chucky standing over her. Hadley calls the police, distraught over Mel's death. Hadley now pissed off, grabs Chucky and drags him to their room where they start attacking him, demanding him to speak. They devolve into a mental break down, yelling out victims of Chucky's and manhandling the doll, desperately demanding that he talks. Eventually, Hadley stops and comes to horrifying realization that they might have killed them, claiming that they've gone crazy. They grab Chucky, crying into him and begging for him to be alive, hopelessly begging that they're wrong and Chucky did it.

Finally, Chucky seemingly starts laughing- as Charles. Hadley devolves into manic and frantic laughter as they claim "He's Alive...! I'm not crazy!", the film ends as Hadley is taken into Police Custody, the film leaving it ambiguous to who really committed the murders- Chucky or Hadley.

## Film Production

I Liked To Be Hugged filmed over the course of about 3 weeks, starting October 10th and filming ending October 25th. The script was written in less then a day, starting October 9th and ending early hours of October 10th.

## Trivia

* Friday the 13's summary was use to hide previous text in private messages when Hadley messages Ashlyn over Discord
* Other horror movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween, Leprechaun , Nightmare on Elm Street and Evil Dead all take place in the same universe as I Liked To Be Hugged (ie Ashlyn mentioning Leprechaun sightings in the film)
* A cameo of Freddy's gloves and Jason's Mask was considered before being scrapped
* This is not the first Horror movie based fan film considered for Gormaco, there were originally plans for a Horror Movie Universe with the first being based off Friday the 13th, other plans included films based off Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Vs Jason and Saw. Tommy Jarvis was planned to be the main character of this series but these plans were eventually scrapped
* I Liked To Be Hugged is blocked in Russia and Belarus because of the use of 'Monster Mash'
* I Liked To Be Hugged is the first instance of Iris Prindel playing a non-binary character