Other Titles • Child's Play • Chucky - Die Mörderpuppe (1989)
Synopses for Child's Play (1988)
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Horror maestro Tom Holland (Fright Night) brought wit and devilish energy to this 1988 scarefest about a murderer (Brad Dourif) who wills his soul into an innocuous doll named Chucky, and reveals himself only to the toy's owner, a frightened little boy. Catherine Hicks plays the child's mother, and Chris Sarandon a detective; neither of them knows what to make of the kid's story. Monster-doll stories are always wonderfully surreal, and Child's Play is no exception. Holland oversees some finely tuned special effects that allow Chucky to express himself and do some damage--it is truly unnerving but somehow good, subversive fun. --Tom Keogh
(16 votes)
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They thought they'd given Andy the perfect birthday present. He had wanted a 'Good Guy' doll ever since it was advertised. But why is Andy saying 'Chucky' is alive? And why has he appeared at the scene of two shocking murders? The horrific answers will lead his frightened parents through the warped mind of a psychotic maniac, into a nightmare maze of powerful voodoo, and to the door of the macabre Dr. Death. Because Andy has revealed the devil doll's deadly secret. And now the terror toy must kill... and kill... and kill again...
(16 votes)
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Andy Barclay wanted nothing more than a Good Guy doll, and his mom was only too happy to please her son and give him one for his birthday. But this new playmate is in no mood to play – unbeknownst to Andy and his mom, a serial killer had transferred his spirit into his doll with a voodoo spell. And now no one is willing to believe little Andy when he blames his aunt’s death on the doll – or that Andy himself is in danger.
(15 votes)
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The Lake Shore Strangler, a mass murderer who has plagued the Chicago area for months, meets his untimely end when he gets shot in a toy warehouse. Left for dead, the killer summons the strength to recite a voodoo chant which causes his soul to be "reincarnated" into one of the dolls resting on the shelves. The incantation also sparks an unnatural lightning storm, and when lightning hits the warehouse, it burns to the ground. Only one doll survives: the doll possessed by the killer's soul.
Later, a mother innocently buys this doll as a present for her son. At first, everything seems fine, but soon the doll starts communicating with the young boy. Then he slays the child's babysitter. That's only the first of his many gruesome exploits, however. So watch out... because just when you think Chucky's gone -- he might be coming back.
(15 votes)
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The “chills come thick and fast” (Los Angeles Times) as voodoo and terror meet within an innocent-looking doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who isn't ready to die. From the director of Fright Night comes a “clever, playful” (The New York Times) and stylish thriller with “excellent special effects” (Leonard Maltin) and heart-pounding suspense guaranteed to scare!
After six-year-old Andy Barclay's (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that “Chucky,” his new birthday doll, did it! Until things start going terribly wrong...dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror has just begun...the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being – young Andy!
(15 votes)
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