The more Don Mancini talks about his upcoming Child’s Play remake, the more it seems like a good idea. It’s hard to not get excited as he continues to say all the right things with each new interview.
Last month, Mancini told AICN that the purpose behind the series reboot is to restore the brand of straightforward horror to the franchise and confirmed that Brad Dourif would be returning to do the voice of Chucky.
Now, Mancini tells Bloody Disgusting that although the voice of Chucky will be familiar, audiences won’t be subjected to the same film all over again.
“None of the details of the murders in the first movie will be repeated. All of the setpieces are going to be completely brand new, and we’re going to do a slight re-design on Chucky himself, although Brad Dourif will absolutely be the voice of Chucky, and will once again play Charles Lee Ray in the flesh. And we’re giving him more to do than he did in the original movie.”
No hammer to the head of that bitch Aunt Maggie? Oh well, dedicating more screen time to Charles Lee Ray is the best idea I’ve heard yet.
In that perfect world I’ve dreamed up– you know, the one where Billy Bob Thorton plays Freddy and people don’t think Barack Obama is a Muslim– there is only one man who can take over for Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray and his name is Lieutenant Dan.
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Nothing to fear. I think this is just the best overall idea I have just seen yet and I'm also so pleased to know that hollywood veteran great Brad Dourif will reprise and extend his own particular role as Charles Lee Ray as this will also improve the vast intergrity and tension of the film also. I do know that this will yet defeat off the 1988 original and will hopefully turn into something else entirely different than any of the rest of the films I have seen lately. Child's Play 1-3 gave me an awful fright without reason whenever I started watching those films whenever I was quite very young at the time and boy they were just the sort of films I've seened as being critically underwhelmed until at least Bride of Chucky came along and changed all that for the better. I was delighted though that Child's Play was unsurprisingly enough – the first of its own kind back then (a film that hasn't actually been done before back then – a nasty serial murderer transferring his own soul into the body of a doll – which I thought now was an absolutely superb idea that no-one else could think of entirely believe it or not?) Pretty well-done back then but now I will and hopefully will be bracing myself real lucky that this brand new chucky remake should at least the mother of all movies and let's hope so.
Child's Play (1988)
Certificate 15 – for strong horror violence and language.
Suitable only for persons of fifteen years and over. Not to be supplied to any person below that age. This film will have a fairly adult theme. It may have some scenes of sex or violence or some bad language.
91mins, USA, colour
Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Rating: 1.5 stars (Missable)
Horror films almost always ask ourselves to suspend our own disbeliefs for the chills to bite. But here's a would-be-chiller that just too silly for that to happen. A crazed killer, with some belief with occult powers, transfers his own soul to the body of a doll before he dies. Quite why the doll doesn't come to life before it's bought by the mother of a child from a tramp is only of the mysteries of this film, but, under the name of Chuckie, he then sets himself out to revenge himself on the partner who betrayed him and the cop who gunned him down. There's actually more to the plot, but it's even more preposterous, culminating on the doll gradually becoming human and thus giving our heroes the chance to kill it. Director Tom Holland finally brings this lame nag home by giving us several false climaxes as it staggers towards the 90-minute mark. Chuckie's worth a chuckle here: no more. Better, though, than the sequels that followed.
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