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Kill of the Week: Axe to the Mouth in ‘Curse of Chucky’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
Earlier this year, I wrote at length about my love for Don Mancini’s Curse of Chucky, which completely restored my faith in a franchise I wasn’t all that into in the wake of the one-two punch of Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky.
With Curse, released in 2014, Mancini went back to basics, scrubbing most of the over-the-top silliness from the franchise in favor of a darker, gothic sequel that remarkably managed to continue literally all of the series’ main storylines while completely resetting the overall tone.
Curse of Chucky is as legit suspenseful as a Chucky movie can probably be, and with it Mancini pulled off something that was seemingly impossible at the time…
The sixth installment in the franchise actually made Chucky scary again.
But we’re here to talk about gory kills, and Curse of Chucky has one in particular that stands out. Towards the end of the movie, heroine Nica Pierce and Ian, her sister’s husband, are (seemingly) the only ones left after Chucky slices and dices his way through the rest of the characters. Nica of course survives, while Ian meets a gruesome fate.
Lying on his back after being knocked to the ground by Nica’s wheelchair, a helpless Ian is approached by an axe-wielding Chucky. The killer doll lifts the axe up over his head, and you assume he’s going to crack it down into Ian’s chest or forehead. Instead, however, Chucky brings the axe down onto Ian’s mouth, literally splitting the bottom of his jaw off.
As an added touch, Ian’s tongue wags around in his mutilated mouth before he expires.
Every body has a secret. André Øvredal’s The Autopsy of Jane Doe is getting a brand new home video release from Severin Films, marking the movie’s debut on the 4K UHD format.
The release is part of the Severin Summer Sale, launching June 26.
When the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered at the scene of a mass slaughter, it is sent to the local coroner (Brian Cox) and his son (Emile Hirsch) for surgical post-mortem. But this corpse will reveal chilling secrets. The mortuary itself will pulse with malevolence. And as their autopsy cuts deeper, an unstoppable evil will rise.
Ophelia Lovibond and Michael McElhatton co-star in The Autopsy of Jane Doe, now scanned in 4K with Special Features including new interviews with André Øvredal and more.
The full Special Features package includes…
Disc 1: UHD (Film + Special Feature):
• Trailer
Disc 2: Blu-ray (Film + Special Features):
• Head Examiner – Interview With Director André Øvredal
• Next Of Kin – Interview With Actor Emile Hirsch
• Undead On Arrival – Interview With Actress Olwen Catherine Kelly
• Coroner’s Report – Interview With Co-Writer Ian Goldberg
• Postmortem Procedure – Interview With Co-Writer Richard Naing And Producers Fred Berger And Eric Garcia
• Tools Of The Trade – On-Set Interview With Actor Emile Hirsch
• Father In The Family Plot – On-Set Interview With Actor Brian Cox
• Second Degree – On-Set Interview With Actress Ophelia Lovibond
• Body Processing – On-Set Interview With Producer Ben Pugh
• Trailer
The upcoming release from Severin Films will include a Vertical Split Rigid Slipcase Illustrated by Trevor Henderson, along with reversible case artwork. Preview it all down below.
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