Childs Play

This was the Movie that catapulted Chucky to worldwide stardom! Well...to fans of the horror genre anyway! I actually seen this Movie after Child's Play parts 2 & 3 which isn't a great way of watching the Series I know but I think that part 2 is the best so at least I can say I seen the best first! The story started in 1988…when the "Lake Shore Strangler" Charles Lee Ray the psychotic killer who had terrorised the Chicago area for months was in a chase with the cops, this chase led him into a toy store where he was eventually gunned down by a detective (played by Chris Surrandon). As he was lay dying he recited an ancient voodoo incantation to transfer his soul into the nearest body he could find. It happened to be a toy doll! The doll in question was a "Good Guy" doll, which was the best selling toy of the year. As this happens a freak lightning storm is conjured up which strikes the toy store and burns it to the ground. Later, a street peddler steals one of the dolls from the burnt out shell and sells it to Karen Barclay who buys it as a present for her son Andy (Alex Vincent) who had been pestering her to buy him a Good Guy doll for weeks. She is forced to buy from a street peddler because that is the only way she is going to afford to buy the hottest toy on the market. Everything seems fine with the doll to start with but after a while Andy starts saying to his mother that the doll is communicating with him. Andy's mother just laughs this off as the doll can speak anyway with the batteries in it, but when he speaks without the batteries she has a big surprise! Chucky gets Andy to do favors for him, like carrying him into the living room so he can see the toy-store explosion on the late news on TV. Chucky talks to Andy to try to find a way to get himself out of the Good Guy Doll, but certain twists get in the way. The black magician he learned voodoo from reveals to him that the only way to break the curse is to take over the body of the first person he told he was inside the doll, that person being Andy. Soon enough, Chucky is killing people either for revenge or just because he damn well feels like it, and people are discovering that Chucky isn't just a kid's doll one by one. He starts his killing spree by seeing off Andy's babysitter with a claw hammer and then proceeds to throw her out of the 5th floor window of their apartment! The detective comes in after the police are alerted and he confiscates Chucky and puts him in the back of his police car to take to the station only to find that he comes alive and trashes the car and tries to kill the detective in the process! Chucky finally buys it in the end though when he gets burned to a cinder and shot to pieces!