Child’s Play
| release date | November 8 1988 |
| studio | MGM |
| director | Tom Holland |
| writer | Don Mancini |
| starring | Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif |
| rating | R |
| tagline | You'll wish it was only make-believe. |
| site | mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=CHILD |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This movie is awsome.
As a lil kid i was fuckin scared shitless but now i just think its a great movie. It just something about it that makes it special.
when i first watched this i thought it would be more terrifying. I think Chucky shoukd have been way scarier and the movie could ave been way better. well lets see what the remake can do.
Really good horror flick about killer dolls..The best killer doll movie ever!
The one and only good chucky movie. The rest just sucked
The first film in the Child’s Play series is by far the scariest and has the darkest tone. As a stand-alone horror film, it’s pretty creepy and uses the premise of a killer doll to good effect. This one just barely fits with the rest of the series, which really gets going with the first sequel.
Chucky has always been my favorite of the slasher “heroes” (just barely edging out Freddy) mostly due to Brad Dourif’s outstanding voice performance. He really elevates a character that should by all rights be nothing but camp. I also got to follow this series from the beginning, whereas others like Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday the 13th were already well-established by the time I was old enough to discover them.
What’s the worst part about enjoying Chucky movies?
telling your parents your gay….
oh and that you have horrible horrible taste.
2/10
The reason why I have to give this movie a perfect score is because… well…. it literally scarred my childhood. I was around 6 years old when this film first came out and simply seeing the commercials on TV made me fear for my life that Chucky was always waiting around dark corners, ready to stab my face off. And after I actually watched the film(or tried to I should say) simply made my fears even worse. No movie, or character I should say, has given me that amount of terror and since the whole point of horror movies is to scare you, I can give this no less than 5 perfect skulls.
Child’s play one of the best movies of all time and has dark humor, scares, and a few gruesome kills. In case you didn’t know Child’s play is about a kid who turns 6 on his birthday and he wants the Good toy doll. So his mother buys it from a hobo and gives it to her son as a present. Although they don’t know it came alive. I thought the film was fantastic. Once Andy finally gets the doll Chucky the scares begin. In the first act you don’t see Chucky but you do see someone walking down the stairs. Then Andy tells his mother that Chucky did all of this but his mother doesn’t believe him. She finally knows that the doll is alive and no one believes her. So she goes everywhere just to get help. Besides the scares there is also dark humor. Like in the movie a lady says “What an ugly doll” and the doll replies “screw you”. I think that Child’s play is creepy, scary, and very funny.
Child’s Play is an effectively creepy movie with some genuine scares, good kills and dark humor. The scene where Andy’s mom (played by Catherine Hicks) realizes there are no batteries in the doll is one of the best. I really enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it to anyone who thinks dolls and clowns are creepy. Enjoy!
murderous doll
Surprisingly good
This was a good one, love creepy dolls !!!!!
This is a film that I do not mind is getting remade. Not bad, but could be so much better.
I am a big fan of the Child’s Play movies, especially Child’s Play 2. However rewatching this movie, I can’t help but feel it is really dated. I am very much looking foward to a remake of this movie because I think the story is very good but the special effects, although at the time may have been great, are very dated now in 2008.
I don’t know why everyone loves this movie so much, doll gets possesed starts killing people. To me that is a shit storyline, the humor in it wasn’t even that good. The deaths were lame and the doll didn’t look scary at all. It looked like something of playschool for christ’s sake. The ending was shit and wasn’t memorable in any way and the amount of sequels they did after this movie………………WTF!?!?!?! I mean it was just bareley good the first time. The acting wasn’t too bad, the voice for chucky was a good choice. Overall this movie was just bareley good the first time and my worst fear would be having to sit through it again. My friend loves the franchise and I went over to his house to have a child’s play marathon and the first movie was alright but after that it got worse and worse and as for “the seed of chucky”……………..What were they thinking???? I give this movie a 3/10 and in my opinion it dosen’t deserve anything more.
pritty cool movie. Definitely entertaining.
A very effective and chilling movie. Unlike the sequels Chucky stayed in the background and this movie was more of a crime thriller and concentrated more on the story of Andy and his trying to convince everyone that his doll was alive. By not showing as much Chucky it made the story more believable and when the film makers showed scenes of Chucky actually being alive it put you on the edge of your seat. The scene when Chucky is first shown alive when Alex’s mother is about to throw him in the fire made me jump on first viewing all those years ago. A great cast including ‘Jerry Dandridge’ himself, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O Hara as Alex’s mother, Dina Minahoff and of course Brad Douriff make this film very enjoyable and the use of black comedy mixed with thrills make one to watch over and over .
A Classic and one of the great horror films of it’s generation, eerie, funny, strange and entertaining. need anymore reason to see a film?
I Absolutley, Positively LOVED This Movie! I Own The 20th Anneversiry Edition Dvd, Buttloads Of Special Features! 10/10!!!
This movie scarred the hell out of me when I was younger. This is a must have DVD I have bouth a regular edition and the aniversey special audition it is a awesome movie. This movie was so solid when does the remake / relaunch officially come out.
funny and scary. one of the best!
Great movie.
Great movie
Classic.
I never was a big fan of this movie….
another supposed classic that i thought classicly sucked ass…chucky is not scary people,and these movies are not even good corny, they are just corny.
This movie freaked me out when I was a little kid. I mean FREAKED ME OUT. idk if anyone else had a “my buddy” doll when they were younger, but yeah… haunting. it’s still a classic, and still really fun and cool.
It’s motherfucking Chucky bitches! That’s practically all that needs to be said. The movie that started one of my favorite horror franchises.
Brad Dourif is perfectly cast in this 80′s slasher staple.
My first horror film I ever watched! God, I love chucky! 10/10!
i loved this movie…a childrens toy killing people? who would have thought?
classic! great movie! chucky is awesome!
My favorite horror movie as a child
I remeber getting in trouble for saying ‘Piece of S***’
The film that introduced us to Chucky & easily the best in the series. Top notch writing, casting & fx. Possible the best “Killer doll” movie there is.
one of my favorites
Great slasher.
I remember watching watching this as a kid.
Child’s Play is the movie that took me the most time to recover. By MY slasher standards, he beats Freddy, Jason, and even Michael. Maybe because I watched this as a kid. I may have to watch this again to be sure.
I’m almost 18 and he still freaks me out.
I’m proud to say that i am terrified of the pervert freak they call, CHUCKIE.
This movie redefined horror when it was first released. i thought this movie to be extremely creepy. Chucky is absolutely magnificent.
He is ruthless!
He is brutal!
and He is pretty funny.
Childs Play is extremely terryfying and you definetly need to check this movie out by any means neccesary.
I remember having issues walking into movie stores and and being horrified to even see the vhs case of this movie. i watched it once, when i was like 5( well watching everyone horror movie on the planet.)
and couldn’t watch it until is was in my teens. Chucky honestly scared my childhood.
After watching it after getting over my fear And watching the films I didn’t find them scary at all but, at the end of the day, I will always remember it for making my stomach hurt every time I walked into the horror section new movie store, and preying they didn’t have a copy of Childs play. So I didn’t have to see chucky.
so for that, I give it a ten.
Chucky is in fact one of the scariest killers of all time. This is a very suspensful and scary movie; a true classic.
Child’s Play is amazing. There, I said it. It’s something you’ve heard before, and you’ll hear it again from me. Child’s Play is amazing! This classic slasher flick is what started it all. Chucky, the fearless living doll, with a dark humourous side, is possessed and basically, goes on a killing rampage. A pretty simple story, too basic though, but fans of the series will know that this simple storyline will eventually become a big part of the plot. Chuckey isn’t the average looking doll either, the film makers obviously wanted him to look menacing, and I have to say they did a great job. Aside from the slightly dissapointing plot, the overall movie is grand. The acting is wonderful, and the voice of Chucky is menacing, and superb. The set pieces, the wonderful dark humour, the gory deaths and the overall feel of this movie is perfect, and that’s what makes it a solid horror, even now.
Overall, a wonderful horror, that you and your friends will enjoy on a dark night, with a bowl of popcorn. A humourous, horror fest.
9/10
One of my favorites!
This movie scared me as a kid. Instant classic very good!
Ha! The birth of Chucky, this movie introduced another iconic horror villan . Brad Dourif is THE SHIT as Chucky, there is no one else on this earth that could be Chuck. A classic that will live on forever. Hopefully the remake is good, at least they’re keeping Brad as Chucky, which is a step in the right direction.
I think this was by far the best killer doll movie ever made. The only doll that can hold a candle to this classic is the Jigsaw doll but he doesn’t chase people around. Chucky was great!
wow, if my son/daughter said their dolls scare them at night, they obviously haven’t seen this film.
i can see how Chucky became a famous killer doll. if a doll tells you that you can be their friend to the end, the end is pretty much closer than you think.
I’m going to have to agree with the majority on this one. The original Child’s Play freaked the hell out of me when I was a child. But I absobultley loved that feeling. Even now [watchint it right now], it scares me, and not only because I remember the fright as a child, but as an actually well made horror movie.
The scene where she picks up the doll box and the batteries drop out is one of the scariest! I was quaking in my doc’s.
Though the series DEFINATLEY does not stay true to this masterpieces, I still enjoy them for other reasons.
This movie is much darker, a serious horror movie, while the others are kind of playing up the campyness, and the humor [especially bride], I still like them, but in a different context.
This movie freaked me out as a kid too but viewing it again so many years later i realize the movie is pretty tedious, like think about it a doll goes around killing people and no one can do anything about it. You just want to tell this fucking morons “Hey its a fucking doll, your bigger than he is so just fucking kick him stomp him or you could just lock him in a cage and keep him as a pet” Besides that it is a classic
One of the best way’s to get a good scare is take something completely harmless and turn it evil. Good job on this one. This movie gives you great detail on what is going on and plays it out great. Chucky is a great 3 foot slasher, his laugh and signature saying “HI I’M CHUCKY WANA PLAY” is imprinted in horror history.
. Dressed my son as Chucky when he was 2.Great costume for kids………
One of the best horror movies ever made, left me with countless nightmares as a child and even today it is still creepy.
The scariest ‘Chucky’ movie, and the best. I had nightmares about this as a kid! Child’s Play definitely works as a serious horror, with a bit of dark comedy thrown in. Chucky coming alive was brilliant.
I only wish they expanded a bit more that Andy could have been the killer. Maybe fool the audience for a little bit longer.
One of the best slasher movies of the 80s bar none.
pretty good
This and the sequel are the best entries in this franchise.
It has a simple plot and storyline. Yet it is a movie that will stay with you forever.
I was scared of this when i was a kid. this is truly one of the best horror movies i’ve seen =D Brad Dourif does an amazing job as chucky.
classic.
Classic film can do no wrong everyone loves chucky.
Brad Dourif is Chucky! One of only a handful of horror movies that actually scared me as a child.Highly recommend.
Everyone loves Chucky!
A really enjoyable and unforgettable film, Chucky is a funny and original villain but most of all he’s strangely lovable! The finale is tense and exciting and so are some other scenes.
Child’s Play is fun and the sequels are even funner, so give Child’s Play a watch if you’ve failed to see it yet, because I believe every horror fan should watch it.
This was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Watched it again recently and it didn’t really hold up very well.
Quite good movie, it’s Chucky so it’s alright.
The Child’s Play franchise with the loveably insane Chucky doll has become a pop culture icon. With five films and more to come, it hasn’t quite reached the legendary status of Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers, but Chucky continues to slash his way to the top.
Tom Holland directed the original 1988 film as well as the Stephen King adaptations of “The Langoliers” and “Thinner”. Set in Chicago this is the story of a widowed mother (Catherine Hicks) and her son Andy (Alex Vincent). Andy is having a birthday and wants a “Good Guy” doll. It’s kind of like the boys version of a Cabbage Patch Kid. His mother buys one from a street peddler and Andy couldn’t be happier. Little do they know that the doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer the lakeside strangler Charles Lee Ray. Chucky talks to Andy, but when things start to happen and he blames the doll. Obviously nobody believes him, even his mother.
Chucky is pure satanic evil with a dirty mouth to match. Like Freddy Krueger he has a string funny one-liner that go to embarrassingly bad lengths in the later sequels. Chris Sarandon plays a detective investigating the mysterious murders and is finally convinced that Chucky is to blame. But who will believe him? This movie also has several of the now more familiar horror clichés. The fake scare followed by the real one, Chucky comes back to life about three times, nobody believes the little kid. The doll effects are pretty good, and Chucky seems to be acting circles around Sarandon’s character. All in all the acting is quite good as well as the production values. This is another classic essential 80′s horror movie. What a decade!
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This is a must see. Not only is chucky one of the best horror villains of all time, but this is one of his best movies. Newbies to the Child’s play series might find the story a bit far-fetched, but if you give it a chance you’ll see that it’s pretty awesome.
Child’s Play is good scary movie. Chucky is really scary. Child’s Play is a must see movie. this movie will scare you. I notice they’re making a remake, and I can’t wait to see it.
alltime classic!! if i had to have sex with a killer from a movie, Chucky would be the one!
this movie scared the shit out of me when i was younger, i mean a killer doll? hell ya that would screw any kid up in the head. i thought this was a very well done plot and just an all together creepy movie.
Chucky is the Sh**
Always loved this film as a kid classic.
Before I Start This was Last Child’s Play I saw, as it was not in shop for over year, I think I Waited 7 Year for this DVD to come back into shops, when came back in shops I had to get it as I have the got rest on DVD.
I little disappointed with this as it start of really slow, we never saw Chucky talk until 45 minutes in to moving after that scene the movie action packed until end,
I wouldn’t called this movie classic but It’s very good movie, I would recommend it to any horror fan.
A horror classic from the 80′s.
I still love Child’s Play, even tho it has not aged well at all. My 2 1/2 Year old daughter really enjoyed it tho. (I made sure she was distracted for the worst parts)
I never tire of seeing this classic, is accurate and powerful. The effect caused by Chucky still stands today and probably will remember forever. This movie completely changed the meaning of toys, at least for me,I never see them again in the same way.
this film made me look at my dolls in a whole new way! still one of my favourites.
Chucky will always be fondly remembered as one of the best villains of 80s horror. Great sense of humor in this film and just pure entertainment. I don’t know what today’s generation thinks of it, but it’s a great piece of 80s nostalgia.
I just watched this movie for the first time in years and I will have to say it really has some creepy freakin moments in it.The sequels all pretty much sucked especially the whole getting married and having kids thing but this one really stands the test of time.
You gotta love Chucky
As a kid i used to be scared as HELL of chucky cause of his scary-ass face everytime i look at it i’d just crap myself.Later as i grew some balls i watched the movie and it was one of the best classic’s i’ve ever seen,recommended for every classic horror fans.(GROW BALLS!)
first scary movie I ever saw, when I was like 3 or 4, and I was scarred for life. It scared me so bad I put all my dolls in storage. As a little girl who did nothing but play with dolls, it ruined me. I wouldn’t go into Spencer’s gifts because they sold the Chucky dolls there. I am appalled that I’m so obsessed with horror now, because I was so anti-fear. But I honestly think Chucky is the reason, hahaha. Now I look back at Chucky as a hilarious memory, and this movie now is just a classic! It’s funny as hell and I have to thank Brad Douriff for creating him and leading me to the dark side essentially XD
I watched this not expecting much, and received much in return! This movie’s great!
I was lucky that I was already old enough (and desensitized enough) by the time I saw this shocker. Looking back now, I can still say that this is a bona fide classic. My one gripe is that Chucky himself…because of Brad Dourif (sorry everybody) was the total wrong voice for this demonic doll. Nothing creepy about Dourif’s voice at all.
If you haven’t heard of Chucky the killer doll at least once in your life, you’ve been living under a rock. He is a classic, a legend, a horror icon all on his own. I can’t get enough of the Chucky franchise, I love all of them to pieces and consider myself a very big fan of all movies, even if down the road horror was lost with SOC.
Child’s Play is easily the darkest and scariest movie out of the entire series. Chucky’s comedic one liners don’t come as often in this one, the tone is much more creepy, and it’s pretty realistic for a movie about a serial killer transforming his soul into the body of a plastic doll. I owe this movie my love for horror, because without it I would have probably never discovered how great horror really is. I was only a little girl when my mom found Child’s Play on TV right before we were getting ready for bed time. Needless to stay Chucky has stayed with me forever. I had to have someone accompany to the bathroom, drove my mom crazy when I followed her everywhere around the house, etc.
Now here I am, a huge fan of the Child’s Play series. I do think that Chucky is very underrated when it comes to horror icons, though I know a lot of people would disagree. The movie has also sparked my love for Brad Dourif, who does a beyond perfect job of voicing the killer doll. He can easily put so much anger in his voice that it leaves a viewer shaken moments after. This is the kind of movie that is a perfect horror.
The original Child’s Play is one of the most fascinating and treasured Horror films back in the early 80′s since A Nightmare On Elm Street. I really like the first Child’s Play and it is the best in the series since the first sequel and the second sequel better than the last two sequels Bride of Chucky and Seed Of Chucky seriously this film had the right amount of special effects that are really memorable and the entire concept of the first movie is seriously amazing and it is really memorable to watch this film and the introduction of Chucky is really nice and incredible and it really delivered the right amount of jolts and thrills that the last two sequels removed(Bride of Chucky and Seed Of Chucky) which I got annoyed with so far. What’s great about Child’s Play is that this film had an amazing concept than the last two sequels and this film along with the first and second sequels are really serious and everything was perfect with the first three Child’s Play sequels. I find this film to be absolutely perfect from start to finish. This movie really delivered the goods and the right amount of thrills and scares and Chucky was scarier and meaner in this film along with the second and third film and he was more serious in this movie than in the new sequels because in the new sequels he became a joke he wasn’t scary or creepy he was just pointless and it would have been better if the new sequels followed the exact same path of the first three Child’s Play movies which I only wished for so far. This movie had some excellent body counts but the kills itself are not gory at all unlike in the first and second sequels there was some good gore here there’s just less gore effects but I rather praised for the special effects and the thrills and jump scares that were used in the film which I personally enjoy about Child’s Play and what I also enjoy about this film is that the film has a lot of incredible camera work scenes each scene has a lot of really nice camera work which I enjoy so far in the movie. The pacing is well written in Child’s Play thanks to a powerful and striking writing to Child’s Play creator Don Mancini he really did a unique and incredible job with this franchise so far. The acting is great in the movie the performances from Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif and Chris Sarandon are really good in the film and Brad Dourif did an excellent job with his performance as the main antagonist Chucky in the first Child’s Play so far even on the later on sequels he was really good oh and Alex Vincent was really good with his performance in the first Child’s Play as Andy even on the first sequel as well. Director Tom Holland did a really good job with his directing with this movie and I’m proud with his work so far I hope he makes another good movie in one of these days again. Overall Child’s Play gets a 10/10
Classic love chucky !
This is a very good movie. Everyone remember Chucky the killer doll and the first it’s always the best.
Great movie. This is my favourite Chucky Movie.