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| The exciting original poster for Tom Holland's Child's Play |
QUICK REVIEW:
A really ugly S.O.B. with some black magic expertise elapses violently inside a toy store, and his soul gets transferred into a large doll, whom a single-mom subsequently buys cheap from a vagrant for her boy...
The boy seems extremely dumb at first, but Alex Vincent (Curse of Chucky (2013)) then actually plays him believably through the coming horrors. And two male police characters overdo their Chicago accents, - but aside from these minor detractors, Child's Play is a really terrific horror film, full of dark scenes and an underlying, semi-perverted atmosphere. (A seemingly innocent toy imbued with the spirit of a serial killer goes amok killing ... - you see?)
The laborious doll work and effects are sublime. Child's Play is a catchy classic and franchise-starter: 3 Child's Play and 3 (more humorous) Chucky-films have since been made, with a 4th Child's Play film scheduled for release this year.
Child's Play is co-written by Don Mancini (Child's Play 2 (1990)), John Lafia (The Blue Iguana (1988)) and director Tom Holland (Fright Night (1985)).
Holland is busy at the moment in pre-production with Killing Frank (2016), an English horror movie with Freddie Highmore and Rebecca De Mornay.
Watch the awesome original trailer here
Cost: 9 mil. $
Box office: 44.2 mil. $
= Big hit
[Child's Play opened # 1 in the States with 6.5 mil. $ and ended its domestic run with 33.2 mil. $ (75 % of the total gross.) It was critically well-received, although the series was and continued to be plagued by accusations that it inspired violence in children.]
What do you think of Child's Play?
And the following sequels?
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