I can’t believe I even have to ask this but… why Child’sPlay?
It’s a great movie! It’s well-acted and has a helluva cast.
Brad Dourif has made a career out of playing a baddie. Probably his best role,
though, is Chucky. I think that’s the one he’ll be remembered for.
It was kind of the first for me, the one that I’d seen like it.
You’d had murderous dolls and things like that but nothing like Chucky. He was
kind of a pioneer. The story… it’s not believable, maybe, but it’s very well
done.
Pshaw. Don’t talk to me about believable. I had to lock
all my dolls in the closet after watching Dolly Dearest as a kid and that wasn’t
anywhere near as good as Child’s Play.
How old were you when you saw that one?
I don’t want to talk about it.
I don’t think it was a cheap movie to produce. I remember
the first time I saw it and being so impressed with it. It all comes down to
the doll, you know? If the doll doesn’t move well, you don’t have shit.
Do you have a favourite moment?
Oh, for me it’s the moment she’s going to put Chucky in the
fire, and he loses the plot. You’re talking to this doll that you’ve been told
that it’s alive but you believe that about as much as you believe Donald
Trump’s a good politician… “Hi, my name’s Donald and I’ll be a Republican ‘til
the end.” Hey, they
kinda look alike…
Shudder. That’s an image that’s not going away.
What did you like about the Chucky doll?
There’s nothing wasted on it but it’s of its time. The dolls
of the time, the 80s, it’s kind of a mishmash of them all. As far back as I can
remember, dolls have always talked, so that’s not that unusual. God, the stuff
they can do now… you can interact with them. That was still a dream. Remember
Small Soldiers? Do you remember being a kid and how amazing that would have
been?
What was it happened a couple years ago where the computers
were talking to themselves? There’s a warning there – and maybe there was a
warning in Chucky.
Too bad no one has been listening…
Well, yeah. That’s the point, isn’t it? That’s why these
movies keep working.
The Chucky films were so well done, especially the first
one. It’s one of those movies that there’s just nothing you can fault it on.
What about the acting?
Alex Vincent as Andy is so believable because he's not pretentious, which would have been so easy to come across as and would have ruined it. You’ve also got Chris Sarandon, who’s good in everything he does.
And yummy.
Do you have any other thoughts on this one?
This is the best of the Child’s Play movies because you
didn’t know what to expect. All of the Child’s Play movies have been good. The
production qualities have been good. They’ve spent the money on them, and
they’ve had good stories. They just didn’t have the element of surprise
anymore.
I think Child’s Play will go on for a long time to come.
It’s far from a dead franchise. There’ll be a lot more of these. I’ve heard
there’s going to be a tv series… I know I’ll watch it (because I’m a sad
fucker,) but I don’t know how I feel about it making that transition from film
to TV.
