Cult Of Chucky Film Review

 

Horror fans I promised you that i'd review of a bunch of Chucky movies and well i've finally got to the last and most recent Child's Play / Chucky movie. It might have taken me alot longer then what I had originally planned but at least I can say that I have now covered the vast majority of the Child's Play / Chucky films and yes I will at some point get to both Child's Play 2 and Child's Play 3 but I don't know when tho and so here is my review of "Cult Of Chucky" enjoy.

The plot of the film is Chucky is once again terrorising Nica who after the events of Curse Of Chucky (the last film) has found herself in a mental institution and it's up to Nica to once again defeat Chucky before it's two late. Plot wise the film is fairly decent since it does offer a pretty unique setting at least for the Child's Play / Chucky films at least but at the same time the whole cult plot to me feels really out of place for this franchise but the story of this film I thought was really well told but that's just what I think tho.

Starring in this film is Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce , Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay and Brad Dourif as The Voice Of Chucky. Also starring in the film is Michael Therriault as Dr. Foley . Adam Hurtig as "Multiple" Malcolm / Michael , Elisabeth Rosen as Madeleine , Grace Lynn Kung as Claire , Martina Stephenson Kerr as Angela , Zak Santiago as Nurse Carlos , Ali Tataryn as Nurse Ashley and Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine.

The acting in the film is honestly a lot better then what I remember it being and please bare in mind I first saw this film when it was first released. The actors who you expect to deliver a solid performance really do deliver with Brad Dourif once again killing it as the voice of Chucky and Jennifer Tilly turning in a solid performance as Tiffany and I have to say Alex Vincent is still really good as a now grown up Andy Barclay.

Now it's been confirmed that the upcoming Chucky TV series which is called either Chucky or Child's Play The TV Series will continue the cult plot set up in this film. Which for me is a good idea since this plotline really does need to explained more since it not really handled very well in this film in my opinion and so spreading it out over several hour long episodes is honestly the best thing that they could do for this plot line.

While they do explain how Chucky suddenly knows how to split his soul across several other dolls to me it's something that doesn't really work. Since for all Chucky could have known the spell that he found could have killed him or made him mortal and so I find it very hard to believe that Chucky would blindly put his faith in a spell that he found on the internet that to me just doesn't make any kind of sense.

I will admit that the only part about the voodoo cult subplot that i liked is that we get to see Chucky take over Nica's body. That to me is such a cool idea and I cannot wait to see what the TV series does with that idea should they do anything with the idea but the only thing that I didn't like about it in this film it's that Fiona Dourif who plays Nica doesn't change her voice that much to me would would have really sold me on the idea of Chucky taking over people's bodies is if she changed her voice to sound close enough to her father since her father is THE voice Chucky Brad Dourif which would not only have been a cool idea but it would have total sense as well.

These direct to DVD films have so far had a really cool habit of bringing back actors from the earlier films in the franchise and while this film gas been out a while i'm still not going to say who it who cameos in this film. Simply because well ne it would ruin a really awesome moment and two it is literally just that a cameo and nothing more but I will say that this person's cameo is an after credits scene and it hopefully sets up the characters possibly appearance in the the upcoming TV show but only time will tell.

The running time for this film is one hour and thirty minuets and fifty six seconds so let's round that up to one hour and thirty one minuets. Which while it does feel about right for the main story of the film but when you take into account the whole voodoo subplot then this film could have been better if it had a longer running time just because the whole voodoo thing really did need explaining better and this film just plain and simply didn't have the running time it needed in order to fully explain that plotline in my opinion.

Now then boys and girls since this is a slasher film that does mean that we have to talk about the kills that are in the film. Which for me are very hit and miss since for every cool looking kill we got it was then quickly followed up by two or three kills that didn't look as good but for me tho there were more good looking kills then there was bad looking kills which for a slasher horror film is always a good thing.

Overall this was a decent film but I can't honestly say that it's better then Curse Of Chucky because it really isn't in my opinion. That doesn't mean that there aren't some good things to be found in this film because there but there's just as many bad things about the film. To me and many Child's Play / Chucky fans Curse Of Chucky was a return to form for the franchise and so it's sad to see it's sequel not be as good as such this film gets a 4.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images or the official Chucky fandom wiki page which is just called The Chucky fandom wiki page. Since I got alot of the images that I used in this review from Google Images I have no choice but to recommend that you guys Google Images if you want images from this film simply because there are alot more images from the film but not all of them are high definition tho so you have been warned and as always horror fans we end this review as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

 

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.