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[Vintage Video] Check Out Rare Footage from 1989 ‘Child’s Play’ VHS Screener
“I’m the king of horror. That guy Freddy? He has nightmares about me!”
A new horror icon was born in 1988 when pint-sized killer doll Chucky debuted on the scene in Child’s Play. The Don Mancini-created, Tom Holland-directed film was made on a budget of just $9 million and raked in an impressive $44 million at the worldwide box office, ensuring that Chucky would be the star of his very own franchise for many years to come. And of course that ended up being the case; the seventh installment, Cult of Chucky, is headed our way later this year.
In celebration of the news that Cult of Chucky will begin filming this coming Monday, we wanted to share with you a vintage treat that you’ve probably never seen. Back in the VHS era, it was common for studios to send VHS screeners of their new releases to video shops across the country, and those tapes often included promotional videos that encouraged shop owners to stock their shelves with those movies. In 1989, MGM sent out screener tapes of Child’s Play, and they went above and beyond in putting together a video that would compel store owners to action.
The 6-minute video, which recently popped up on YouTube, features Brad Dourif voicing Chucky, and in it the lovable doll brags about the financial success and rave reviews of his first movie; he even takes shots at both Freddy and Jason, showing he’s got balls of steel. The video also includes clips from the film and a music video that features an original song about the movie.
Yes. A Child’s Play song. You’ve gotta love the ’80s.
Check out the rare VHS screener footage below!
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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