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Childs Play (Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition)

5 star:		(50)
4 star:		(44)
3 star:		(16)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

This DVD is the first of the Child Play series and is by far the best. Chucky, a sadistic, smart and persuasive doll who has been possessed by the ghost of Charles Lee Ray is the star and is actually a pretty freaky looking doll. The young boy Chucky needs to hurt/kill in order to obtain his body is played by a wonderful (young at the time) actor Alex Vincent, a very intelligent first move.
There are a few good scares in this first one, unpredictable since it's the first, a good start and a must see for horror fans. Chucky will sure be a classic of our times.

Allthough I came to know and appreciate the films of Hitchcock and Cameron and Scott well into and beyond my adolescence, I was first a stolid virgin for Carpenter.
I rate 'Child's Play' with four stars only because my bother loves chuckie. He is younger and does not have the same appreciation for films...as I do..but taste you know...is in the eye...of the film goer...

This is pretty good. I mean, it sets a good scene, and the suspense when it finally picks up is good. The downside is the pacing. The movie goes along very slowly and of the playing time of around 90 minutes, I'd say 65 or so was dry, boring moments. That aside, the acting is pretty lame -- Catherine Hicks and Alex Vincent are the exceptions. But Maggie's fall out of the window looks particuarly fake.
All that aside, the movie is good. I mean for a late 80's flick, the SFX deliver pretty well. Chucky looks a little less realistic than in the next couple, but he really is spooky. The movie was a good concept.
A good starter to a great series. Yes, you should rent or buy it.

This is a classic, I love this movie. This will never get boring and I will watch it a thousand times over.
I recommend it to everyone... NO COMPLAINTS!

When young Andy finally gets the doll of his dreams for his birthday, he doesn't know that his mother bought the doll from a peddler in the alley behind the department store where she worked. His mother didn't realize that the doll came from a burned down toy store where the notorious Lake Shore Stranger Charles Lee Ray was gunned down.

When Andy is left with his mother's friend Maggie, she is mysteriously thrown out of the apartment window to her death. No one believes Andy when he tells them the truth: "Chucky did it" Andy's doll turns out to be Charles Lee Ray, who moments before he died transferred his soul to the doll using voodoo.

When Chucky finds out he has been in the doll too long and is now turning human, he is told the only way to get out of the doll is to transfer his soul to the first person he told his true identity to, who is, you guessed it, Andy.

Now Andy and his mother must stop the notorious killer before he takes Andy's soul forever.

An edge of the seat thriller! This is the best one of the series.

It had been years since I'd seen this film (1988), and honestly, I don't recall what my exact impressions were then, although I do recall thinking that the antics of a murderous doll had some fright value to it.

What a difference a decade and a half makes.

After seeing a poster for Seed of Chucky, I decided to rent Child's Play again just for kicks. The ridiculousness of the 80s-style horror film was evident. The adults in this film, even one who made "detective", are either ignorant simpletons, or a hysterical woman. (This is as opposed to a strong woman who believes in her child. Nothing quite like perpetuating stereotypes.)

The "car chase" scene sums up the movies infantile nonsense quite well. Chris Sarandon's character (detective Mike Norris) is driving, and Chucky has snuck into the back seat. He first tries to choke Sarandon to death, but upon having his face burnt by a cigarette lighter that still happens to be burning hot although several minutes have passed since its last use, he gives up and resorts to trying to stab Norris through the seat. Here's a question: why not just take that knife, reach up to Norris's cranium (he was able to do so, as he was choking him earlier), and sever Norris's spinal cord? That would be too simple, and, of course, would ruin the rest of the story. Instead, Chucky tries to stab Norris through the back seat, and upon failing to miss such a large target (triangulating where Norris's back should be, based on the location of his head and shoulders, shouldn't be difficult), decides to crawl under the seat and start an attack against Norris's genitals. In the end, Chucky is foiled, and Norris escapes with his life.

A final word on the ending. It became a rule in the 80s that even when the killer was dead beyond all possible reckoning - even in relatively intelligent films like Die Hard - the killer came back for another go at things. This is no different, and should not give away the ending. I mean, it's 1988. Shouldn't Chucky fully recover from being burnt to toast, and then shot into tiny pieces? It only makes sense.

I personnaly like halloween better overall but for its time child's play is a great movie. i think the movie is very interesting and the best in the series because its the original.
i think the way the series is going its going to be a comedy in the end though. I think after the seed they should end it because i don't want to buy more chucky dvds and there getting worse.

Good little movie. A fresh approach to horror and what a great job.

A seriall killer puts his soul into a doll when he is killed and when he comes back, the only person he can put his soul into is the 1st person he tells that hes a real person, and its a 6 year old boy. Chucky starts to kill and no one belives Andy as he is targeted as the killer. More people are killed and Andy is to blame until his mother discovers that chucky has been talking and walking without any batteries...

this movie, although its really good, is a slow mover and can get boring but its well worth it and is very entertaining and enjoyable and scary. Plus, the little foul mouthed doll is hilarious!

From the back of the DVD:
After 6-year-old Andy Barclay's babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, no one believes him when he says "Chucky," his new birthday doll, did it! Until things start to go terribly wrong...dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror has just begun...the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being - young Andy!

I bought this film on DVD without even renting it first. On the way home, I kept wondering if it was a mistake to do that. Well, it wasn't. The special effects were stunning for a late 80's film and it had a very unique character in it, Chucky. The acting though was great at some parts and horrible at others. There wasn't much gore or a high body count, but the movie is still pretty fun to watch. I give it an 4 out of 5.

There are certain things the average Joe should be horrified of: the gas prices, decent paying factory jobs being sent to third world nations, finding out your teenage daughter's prom date is R. Kelly, etc. But seeing a 2 foot doll with the combined annoyance capabiltities of Rob Schneider, Jennifer Lopez, David Spade, Hillary Clinton, Jar Jar Binks, and Ja Rule just doesn't work for me. It is just apalling how horror can denigrate from Poe, Lovecraft, and Hodgson to Chucky in less than a century. Of course no clean, sober mind could conceive such an idea. Only someone drunk on paint thinner chased with rubbing alcohol or stoned out his gourd could create such an intellectual vacuum as the Child's Play franchise. But it got created, and we, humanity as a whole are suffering for it.

This last paragraph is a true story. Back in April, I went to the 18 Cineplex to see Kill Bill Volume 2. But first I had to sit through the previews. One of the previews was for the new Chucky film in which evidently Chucky is going to have a child. It made me wonder why Bush doesn't do more to support family planning. But anywho, after that preview ended. I shouted with furious anger, "NO THANK YOU!!!". I expected to be ejected unceremoniously from the premises. Two ushers appeared out of nowhere and I was met with strange stares from the other theater patrons. So I stood up and awaited whatever fate was presented before me. But instead of recieving a boot to my hindquarters and a court order telling me never to return, I was met with cheers and whistles - even from the ushers. I politely bowed and sat back down, then I preceded to enjoy Kill Bill Volume 2.

Four words, Chucky: "Ribbed for her pleasure."