![]() Back home, Karen discovers that the doll has been moving and speaking on its own without batteries. Andy is again considered a suspect and admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Chucky sneaks into the home Caputo is hiding in and kills him by causing a gas explosion as revenge for abandoning him. The next day, Andy skips school and takes the subway into a sketchy neighborhood in Chicago. Norris considers Andy a suspect but he claims that it was Chucky and that Chucky told him his real name was "Charles Lee Ray". ![]() That night, Karen's best friend Maggie, who is babysitting Andy, is attacked by Chucky, causing her to fall out of a window to her death. She later buys a discounted Good Guy doll from a homeless peddler and Andy is delighted to receive it. Widow Karen Barclay's six-year-old son Andy wants a Good Guy doll for his birthday, but she cannot afford one. The store is struck by lightning and explodes, and Norris finds Ray's lifeless body next to the doll. Shot by Norris and dying, Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul into a nearby Good Guy-brand talking doll. ![]() MGM retained the rights to the first film and, as such, distributed the 2019 reboot.ĭetective Mike Norris chases fugitive serial killer Charles Lee Ray through the streets of Chicago and into a toy store, after Ray is abandoned by his accomplice, Eddie Caputo. Child's Play was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, although the rights to the series were sold to Universal Pictures in 1990, beginning with the sequel Child's Play 2. Īlong with the film gaining a cult following, the box office success spawned a media franchise that includes a series of seven sequels (one of them being a television series), merchandise, comic books, and a reboot film of the same name released in June 2019. It grossed more than $44 million against a production budget of $9 million. Its plot follows a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.Ĭhild's Play was released in the United States on November 9, 1988, by MGM/UA Communications Co. It stars Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon with Brad Dourif as Chucky. It is the first film in the Child's Play series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky. Child's Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed by Tom Holland, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Don Mancini and John Lafia, and a story by Mancini.
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