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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.
The killer tomatoes are back in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, and the offiical poster for the brand new movie has been unleashed tonight.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the film’s theatrical release is set for this August, with a panel set for San Diego Comic-Con this month featuring the world premiere of the trailer.
While you wait, check out the official poster down below.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence will be released in select cities across the US beginning August 7th in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Diego, and others, and expanding to further locations throughout the month.
The fifth installment in the horror-comedy franchise pits the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes, setting the stage for another outrageous chapter in the long-running cult franchise.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes co-creators Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace return to write and executive produce. David Ferino directs.
The film features an ensemble cast led by franchise icon John Astin (The Addams Family), reprising his role as Professor Gangreen, comedy legend David Koechner (Anchorman), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), horror favorite Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), comedy veteran Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Myrna Velasco (Star Wars Resistance), Vernée Watson (Shrinking, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Paul Bates (Coming to America).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes launched in 1979, followed by 1988’s Return of the Killer Tomatoes, 1991’s Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, and 1992’s Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
The franchise also spawned an animated series in 1990.
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