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Child's Play seems to have been concocted by a parent who went berserk after standing in line for hours on end to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980s. The film opens with serial killer Brad Dourif taking refuge in a doll factory. Dourif is killed by the cops, but not before he has invoked a voodoo curse which transfers his soul into one of the dolls. That particular doll, nicknamed Chuckie, is unwittingly purchased by Catherine Hicks for her son Alex Vincent. Several murders occur
Nov 9, 1988 Wide
Aug 14, 2001
United Artists
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (10) | DVD (17)
Fun withers in stretching the thin material to feature length.
[A] clever, playful thriller.
Director Tom Holland keeps things moving without rushing them. Unfortunately, Child's Play gets a little ugly at the end.
Child's Play is a cheerfully energetic horror film of the slam-bang school, but slicker and more clever than most.
The things that redeem the film, at least slightly, are Dourif's nasty, insinuating vocal performance and Kevin Yagher's design of the Chucky doll itself.
Dumb-scary horror character plays well for teens.
It's nothing wildly original, but it is pacey and entertaining when it gets going.
It does, however, have some decent scares, a lot of good lines and a memorable villain.
Is anyone ever going to make a really good movie about toys coming to life to kill people?
With humor taking a backseat to good, old-fashioned suspense, Child's Play is an impressive horror highlight of the late-'80s film scene.
'Child's Play' is one of the scariest movies ever.
Insidiously effective.
The 20th Anniversary edition DVD is the one to get - it's a toybox full of brand new extras!
While the sequels may have gotten progressively more campy, I'm pleased to note that the original Child's Play holds up just as well as I'd hoped. (And the new DVD rocks.)
really two movies in one: an effective, genuinely creepy build-up to what turns out to be a schlocky and intentionally comedic horrorshow
I'm sure Child's Play was far from the only film of its era sold as one of the great scareshows of all time.
It took Don Mancini 10 years to bring the Chucky franchise to its current **** glory, but the original Child's Play is pretty ***.
Even after twenty years, Child's Play shows no ring rust. The little flick plays just as well now as it did in its heyday.
An inadvertently silly but effective shocker. Director Tom Holland definitely knows how to spin a scary yarn.
Holland's sure handling of the suspense and shock moments lends the film a sharp and scary edge.
classic horror
For what it is, it's damn good. It doesn't do anything new, but what it does do, it does well.
March 26, 2007Super Reviewer
Chucky: Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play? "You'll wish it was only make-believe."Child's Play is a silly "horror" film. There is nothing scary about it, as the premise pretty much indicates. Every standard slasher scene the movie has is different in the fact that it isn't trying to shock or scare, but is trying to make you
January 18, 2011
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