Curse Of Chucky Film Review

 

Well then horror fans I told you that i'd be taking a look at a bunch of Child's Play /  Chucky movies and well I meant it. So today and if things go according to plan tomorrow i'll be reviewing both of the direct to DVD Child's Play / Chucky sequels just because I haven't seen those movies since they came out and I want to see if the films are better then what I remember them being and so since this film came out first join my as I review the 2013 film "Curse Of Chucky" enjoy the review everyone since we all know this film is going to be better then Seed Of Chucky.

The plot of the film is Chucky is out for revenge this time on someone who wronged him when he was alive and known as Charles Lee Ray and it's up to Nica Pierce to stop him before he kills her entire family. In all honesty after the terrible story that we had in Seed Of Chucky the plot for this movie isn't that bad infact it's oddly refreshing and the plot in my opinion is really well told both of which help make the film more enjoyable in my opinion.

Starring in the film is Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce and franchise star and the father of Fiona Dourif Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray and The Voice Of Chucky. Also starring in the film is Danielle Bisutti as Barb Pierce , Brennan Elliott as Ian , Maitland McConnell as Jill , Chantal Quesnel as Sarah Pierce , Summer H. Howell as Alice Pierce , A (Single) Martinez as Father Frank and Adam Hurtig as Officer Stanton.

Now you might have noticed that there are a few returning actors that i've not credited and that's because when this film first came out it was a surprise to see those actors again and so I want to keep there return a surprise just incase there are people who haven't seen this film but are Chucky fans. As for what I thought about the acting in this film it was a lot better then the acting in Seed Of Chucky i'll give this film that but that's not a high bar to reach and it goes with out saying but Brad Dourif really does kill it as the voice of Chucky in this film as does his daughter Fiona Dourif who as mentioned before is playing Nica Pierce.

Now this is something that I honestly wasn't expecting but there are references in this film to I think all of the other Child's Play / Chucky movies. Since on a computer when Nica is looking up stuff on Chucky we see LA , Hackensack New Jersey and Chicago and the army school from Child's Play 3 all listed as locations for where Chucky has killed and I think when Chucky is talking about all of the families that he's visited he mentions the family from Child's Play 2 but I could be wrong tho.

Either way I liked that they found away to mention all of the films in the franchise without having to do the standard recap of the storyline of the films that all slasher films seems to do. The way that they did it here felt more organic since there would be newspaper reports on the murders that we've seen in these films and while it doesn't make sense for Chucky to start talking about the families that he's visited it's really the only way that they could have referenced Child's Play 2 without people getting confused as to why a Toy Factory blowing up is front page news.

Just kind of keeping with what I just said I like the fact that they are keeping Seed Of Chucky canon just because even tho it's a bad film it is still a film in the Child's Play / Chucky franchise and the fans of the franchise might be angry if they chose to ignore Seed Of Chucky and instead chose to make this film a direct sequel to either Child's Play 3 or Bride Of Chucky. It's due to this that makes think that Child's Play creator and writer of all the films and director of Seed Of Chucky , Curse Of Chucky (this film) and Cult Of Chucky Don Mancini respects his audience because he knows that the fans will pick up on anything to do with either continuity or the timeline of the Child's Play / Chucky film franchise but that's just what I think.

Let's get onto some negative aspects of the film because trust me the film does have some bad things going for it. The first of which being they try to make this like the first film which doesn't really work when you take into account the film's title or the fact that they credit Brad Dourif as The Voice Of Chucky in the opening credits and so the audience is already going to know who the killer is and that Nica isn't going insane which means all suspense on that plot line is now lost because we know how it's going to play out.

I'm not going to lie I liked the character of Nica who as mention before is played by Brad Dourif's real life daughter Fiona Dourif. Nica to me is more proactive hero in that from pretty much the first murder she's on to Chucky and is doing everything she can to prove that Chucky is the killer which to me makes the film alot more fun just because your seeing this character who already knows who the killer is trying to persuade her other family members that she's telling the truth.

However the downside to all of that is even when the evidence all points to Chucky being the killer Nica's family acts dumb. The worst offender for this is the character of Barb (as played by Danielle Bisutti) who right after finding a knife on Chucky sits Chucky down somewhere in the attic and leaves the knife right next to him while she carries on looking for her daughter the very fact that she left the killers weapon of choice right next to killer is just so freaking dumb.

This film has a running time of one hour and thirty four minuets which to me is a little bit to long but that's just what I think. I say this because even tho there's more then enough plot to cover that running time alot of the time there's nothing interesting happening and so I did get bored alot of the time which no matter what the film is or what genre the film is having your audience get bored during your film is something that you never want to happen.

Now then since this is a slasher film that does mean that I have to talk about the kills in the film and while we do get to see alot more kills in this film. There are a few kills in this film which look cool but they happen off screen which is a shame because they could have made for some really cool kills but the kills that we do get to see are honestly pretty creative and in some cases are honestly pretty freaking funny with the chief example of that being the death of the babysitter which just had me laughing just due to how easy that kill is for Chucky.

Overall this film is so much better then Seed Of Chucky and is honestly the shot in the arm that the franchise needed. That being said the film does have alot of issues some of which hurt the film quite alot but where as with Seed Of Chucky where the negative aspects of the film outweighed the positive here the positive aspects outweigh the negative aspects of the film and so this film gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Child's Play fandom wiki page or Google Images. Since I got alot of the images from Google Images I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use Google Images if you want high quality and in some cases high definition images and so 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.