My Attempt At Working Out A Timeline For The Original Child's Play Films

There are alot of horror icons out there from Freddy to Micheal to Jason , Leatherface and Ash there's a ton and one of those icons is a little doll called Chucky. The Chucky character has been around since the 1980's and has starred in seven films two of which are straight to DVD and is also the star of a 2019 remake and so horror fans i've come up with something slightly original that i'm going to try and attempt and that is to work out a rough timeline for all of the original films in the series going from the original Child's Play all the way to Cult Of Chucky and it goes without saying but there will be spoilers ahead.

Child's Play

Now there's nothing surrounding the age of Charles Lee Ray out there since i'm only going what's stated in the films but we can assume that by his death in the first film he's in his early thirties. That being said the first film starts us of on November 9th 1988 the exact date and year the first film was released. Chucky was sold to Andy's mom Karen the following day November 10th which was also the day when her best friend was killed.

Now on November 11th Andy and Chucky take the train to go and kill Chucky's get away driver Eddie where just like the previous night Andy is the main suspect which he is for most of the film. At dusk the same day Karen finds out that Chucky is evil and thus begins the third act of the film which ends ultimately with the apparent death of Chucky and so as you can see the whole film start to finish takes place over three days.

Child's Play 2

Now from this point onwards there's no clear date and month given but what we do know is that Child's Play 2 picks up two years after the first film and since Andy was just turning six in the first film we can assume he's just turned eight in this one. This film actually takes place over what seems to be a day (there's not that much information out there so i;m doing the best I can and i've not seen 2 ,3 , 4 ,5 and i've only seen 6 and 7 once so bare with me). So assuming that Andy has just turned eight years old that would place this film around December time since if it took place in January that would mean that it takes place nearly three years later instead of two.

Child's Play 3

This one is a little bit trickier to try and work out a time frame for but what I do know for sure is that the film picks up the story and characters eight years later thus meaning it now takes place in 1998. Now given that Chucky had to mail himself we can assume that between him mailing himself and him being discovered by Ronald at least three days if not more have passed. Also taking into account that Andy has only just joined military school we can there for assume that within a few weeks Andy got himself a girlfriend and so we can there for make the assumption that this film takes place over a few months if not a month. 

Again i've not seen this film in a long time so I can't exactly tell you when this film takes place exactly since my memory is a bit fuzzy. However I do remember it being sunny alot so i'm going to make the assumption that it takes place in the summer time and given that Andy is a new recruit there it would be a safe bet that it takes place in June.

Bride Of Chucky

Chucky gets lucky indeed because we now leave the title Child's Play behind and now enter the title Chucky. This film takes place one month after the previous film so there for we are still in 1998 and given that there is a couple going to prom we can there for assume that this film takes place in July. Again there's no clear date given in the film or even on the Child's Play Wiki however given what a vaguely remember about the film it would be a safe bet to assume that this whole film start to finish takes place over at least three to five days.

   Seed Of Chucky

Here we are with another film with the word Chucky in the title and it's now six years later which means this film takes place in 2004 which was also the year that this film came out and this was also the last Chucky film to get a theatrical release as the next two would be straight to DVD. Ok given that must Christmas movies start filming in the summer it would be safe to assume that the opening of this film takes place around that time. Again since there's shipping involved we have to assume that a few days have occurred since we first meet Glenn to him finding Chucky and Tiffany. 

As for the whole film like I said Christmas movies film in the summer so that's a good jumping of point and given that there are at least three or four night scenes after Glenn arrives it would be safe to assume that this film takes place over three or four days but there's a huge chance that i'm wrong. However tho the film does another time jump this time for five years and so we end the film in 2009 on what looks to be a summer day but it could be a Fall / Autumn day.

Curse Of Chucky

This film states that it takes place in 2013 which after doing the math that's not true because this film is said to take place nine years after Seed which means it takes place in 2018. I do have some very vague memories of this film since I did see it when it first came out but that was the last time I saw it however I do recall there being at least three scenes set at night so i'm going to assume that the main bulk of the film takes place over four days but since there's another scene of Chucky being dropped delivered to someone else at the end of the film we know now that six months have passed so at best guess i'd say the film takes place in the winter for the main portion of the film but it ends in the summer.

Cult Of Chucky

Now if we are going by the previous film which states that it takes place in 2013 even tho the math states otherwise then this film would be taking place 2017 but with the math having already been done it takes place in 2022. This film is honestly one of the hardest to try and work out a time frame because there's not that many night scenes however if I remember right there's snow on the ground at the end of the film and possibly all throughout which means that at best the film takes place in December but there's a chance that i;m wrong with that.

Thank you guys for joining me on this very experimental post and yes I know that there's a chance that i'm wrong on more then one occasion but i've done the best I could with the information that was out there and yeah I had to use my own very basic maths skills for the last two films and i'm not very good at maths so if i'm wrong with the years in the last two entries then please let me know and if you would like another post like this then let me know.