Curse of Chucky [201?]

[Heathen]

A new Child's Play SEQUEL is on the way. Key points include it being a narrative sequel to Child's Play 3 and it having less comedy than the last two sequels. I'm perplexed.

http://moviehole.net/201255037exclus...this-september

Video killed the reboot restart…

No longer a rumour, Universal Home Entertainment have slapped the acidic size D’s back into the possessed doll Chucky, signing off on a plan to do a fifth sequel to 1988′s “Child’s Play”.
“Curse of Chucky”, which will be written, directed and produced by Chucky conceiver and recurring franchise director Don Mancini, will begin shooting in Winnipeg, Canada in September.

In this new film, which is being produced for DVD, Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that’s regrouped for a funeral. In the wake of her mother’s passing, a young woman – in a wheelchair since birth – is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a “strange doll” she was sent a couple of days earlier.

Unlike the last couple of “Chucky” movies, while there will be humour, there’s a lot more emphasis here on making the series scary again – so this’ll be a throwback to the first three “Child’s Play” movies. (Interestingly enough, a reboot of the series has been in development which also encompassed a slightly darker, more frightening tone, suggesting we’ll likely never see another campy ‘Chucky’ flick again.)

Brad Dourif is, of course, back to voice the role of the killer doll. He’s lent his lungs – and briefly, face – to every “Child’s Play” thus far. So thankfully, Uni aren’t saving coin and bringing in Jake Busey or Frank Stallone to speak into a mic. Dourif is Chuck.

Main characters in the film include heroine Nica; Barb, Nica’s older sister, a manipulative, controlling cow that nags her handsome husband Ian and 5-year-old daughter Alice; and Jill, the “smokin’ hot” nanny that’s sleeping with Ian. There’s also fun supporting characters like a meddling priest, who will come face-to-cross with Chucky, and of course, the deceased woman, mother Sarah. But, as I said, it’s Chucky who takes king credit – he’s who we want to see, and by golly, sounds like he’s back to his murderous ways.

As I said, this is a return to ‘nasty’ Chucky – the scary little son-of-a-bitch that leaves nobody standing around to get their shits and giggles as two plastic dolls play hide the plastic cabana via silhouette (in fact, the film completely skips over the last couple of sequels, essentially taking place after “Child’s Play 3″ – so there’s no Jennifer Tilly, sorry kids!). There’s a big-ass knife, and by golly, Chucky’s gonna use it – and in the most graphic of ways. There’s some very disturbing slaughter scenes planned for the flick.

It sounds like this is going to be a dead-on scary flick, and encompasses oodles more gore than the laugh-centric “Bride of Chucky” and “Seed of Chucky” had in them (not hard, I guess!?), that’ll hopefully mend Chucky’s reputation as a meltable bitch from a box.

[DeathbyIggy]

Yeah, i heard about this today through Facebook. Can't say i'm all that excited.

[The Geek]

I'm 50/50 on this.

I love that they are making another one and are returning to the roots of the original 3 (even though I'm a fan of Bride and Seed) and bringing back Dourif is a smart move.

But made for DVD? I don't want a cheap looking CP film with a shitty looking Chucky doll.

[Rusted]

I'm all for it, just to see a new Chucky film that isn't a parody. Getting back to the vibe of the first three is a great idea as is bringing Mancini back.

Don't care that it's direct to disc. I'm sure the budget will be high enough to throw money at decent FX.

[Heathen]

I'm glad Chucky will be back in action soon, but how does this the new story relate to the trilogy? I suppose they'll half-ass a connection between Nica and Andy. No matter, as long as Chucky is the focus.

[Mogwai]

YES! Finally this project is going ahead. It seems like forever since I first heard that 'Child's Play 4' was going to be made.
Great to hear that Brad Dourif is returning to voice Chucky (it wouldn't be the same without him) and pleased to hear that they're working on making Chucky a frightening character once again, if I had to sit through another one of those Chucky & Tiff' comedies again I'd probably go all A-Day-Doo-Ay-Dembella on someone.
I thought the next Child's Play was going to be a remake though?
Anyway - Chucky's back - Hidy fucking ho

[Deadly Fiend]

I'm looking forward to this, hell I even enjoyed Seed of Chucky to an extent.

It's still good to hear that they will try to return to the same formula of 1-3. It'll most definitely be interesting to see how this entry turns out. I don't mind that it's going to be DTV, as long as it isn't too obviously cheap like Hostel 3, Wrong Turn 3, etc.

[The Bear Jew]

I'm down for this. As long as Dourif is involved and it's taking a darker approach than previous entries totally negates the fact that it's straight to DVD in my opinion...

[R. Flagg]

Yet another reason for me to write of Hollywood until those fuckers down there start doing original shit again!!! Do we really need a 6th Child's Play flick (esp. if they're still going ahead with the remake)? I say nay goddamnit!!! It's good there's still a boatload of classic horror flicks I need to check out and the foreign markets have been doing good stuff lately 'cause I'm dead serious when I say Hollywood won't be getting a penny from me until they stop trying to skullfuck every classic film and great franchise ever made.

[Mogwai]

Originally Posted by R. Flagg

Yet another reason for me to write of Hollywood until those fuckers down there start doing original shit again!!! Do we really need a 6th Child's Play flick (esp. if they're still going ahead with the remake)? I say nay goddamnit!!! It's good there's still a boatload of classic horror flicks I need to check out and the foreign markets have been doing good stuff lately 'cause I'm dead serious when I say Hollywood won't be getting a penny from me until they stop trying to skullfuck every classic film and great franchise ever made.

Hell yeah, excellent rant, I'm just a sucker for the Chucker so I'm really looking forward to it.
And as far as "skullfuck every classic film and great franchise", oh come now, the Child's Play films were never "classic".
Anyway, good rant and I agreed with most of your points.