If this summer is any indication, the studio-mandated PG-13 horror movie may have finally come to an end. Brightburn was an ultraviolent film about an evil Superman (kinda), and now the Child’s Play remake is coming out with gloriously disgusting violence aplenty.
It would have been easy to turn a movie about a killer doll – who can also control various Bluetooth devices, like cars and drones and light switches – into a PG-13 thriller that, more or less, everyone could enjoy, but when Bloody-Disgusting spoke to director Lars Klevberg, he explained that that was not case.
Child’s Play‘s exceptional amount of gore, Klevberg said, “was part of the plan.”
“The studio told us very early on that it was going to be a Rated-R movie, and we said that’s good, based on many things,” Klevberg explained.
“But it was never an uphill battle, actually. We tested a lot of different things and we kind of ended up in a spot where I think that was a great spot for us.”
In fact, when it comes to the gore, Klevberg says that “we kind of put more on it as we worked more on it, if you know what I mean.”
“A little bit,” he added. “To change something.”
Although Klevberg wouldn’t elaborate further on which of the film’s many gross deaths got even grosser over time, he did explain that, to him, the violence is an important part of the Child’s Play franchise.
“Because there are certain iconic characters in movies, in the history of cinema, that you should be able walk in the same footsteps,” Klevberg said. “You have the Child’s Play/Chucky universe, also Alien and Jaws and all those. There’s violence and gore there for a reason. It’s not just added there to create something.”
“And for us, this movie’s the same way, how I see it,” he continued. “It’s just being part of that universe.”
That doesn’t mean Klevberg was allowed to put just any act of violence in the new Child’s Play. To find out which audacious murder the studio wouldn’t allow him to film, come back to Bloody Disgusting after Child’s Play hits theaters this weekend, because that one’s a spoiler!
