If you haven't yet clocked that he is exactly the right size to boot over a wall or just put in a bin, then the trailer for the new Chucky film might give you quite a scare.
I mean come on, if you really were the spirit of a notorious serial killer why wouldn't you possess, like, a tank or a massive stone gargoyle or something, instead of a 2ft tall doll?
Anyway, we're not here to discuss the intricacies of Childs Play, we're here to tell you about how bat-shit crazy the trailer for the latest film in the franchise is.
Cult of Chucky is the seventh film in the series and is due to bypass screens and go straight to DVD and Blu-Ray in October, and if the trailer's is anything to go by, it's going to be an absolute howl.
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The new movie is written and directed by long-time franchise architect Don Mancini and finds Nica from Curse of Chucky stuck in an asylum. Why? Well, because unsurprisingly, when authorities found her entire family brutally murdered, 'the doll did it' just didn't quite wash with them as a viable explanation.
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Nica's therapist introduces her group to a new tool, and guess what it is? Another fucking 'Good Guy' doll of course. Naturally, this is the point where things begin to go tits up and the asylum is hit by a wave of gory deaths, causing Nica to question if maybe she wasn't crazy at all.
The Child's Play series is such a long-running and popular one that you have to wonder, what is it about dolls that freaks us out so much? Don Mancini thinks he has the answer.
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"I think, generally speaking, we have a primal response to dolls," he told AskMen. There's something inherently creepy about them because they're effigies; they're distortions of the human form. We have a natural, subtle recoil from them, anyway, that I think a movie like Child's Play exploits."
Child's Play wasn't the first film to use the concept of a living doll; there was Twilight Zone and Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror before it, but Chucky is most definitely the one that stuck, that became a horror icon and became popular with younger horror fans in particular.
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"I think Chucky is popular with young audiences because he tends to go after authority figures and hypocrites and things like that," explains Mancini.
"He subverts the status quo.
"From a young person's perspective, he's going after the babysitter or the teacher - these are archetypal authority figures that we feel hostility towards, but Chucky can act on that."
Cult of Chucky will be available from October 3 on DVD Blu-Ray and digital.
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Words: Paddy Maddison