Child's Play
Director: Tom Holland
Starring: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Douriff
Studio: MGM
Release Date: September 15, 2009
ASIN: B002BE7JE8
Running Time: 87 minutes
Rating: R
Review:
Child's Play was released to theaters when I was seven years old, but I didn't see Chucky's first outing until the mid-90s on TNT's Monster Vision (when it was on Friday nights). I liked it so much, that I bought the movie on VHS, though it had a white fuzz to the film. I bought 2-5 on a DVD set several years ago and of course, I bought Curse of Chucky this month, but I wanted to own Child's Play on DVD too. I ended up ordering the Blu-Ray + DVD combo as it was cheaper than the DVD version. The DVD in the 2-disc set is Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition which was released in 2008.
Though you probably already know the plot, I'll still recap it for those who haven't seen it. First released in 1988, Child's Play opens up with Charles Lee Ray being chased by the police into a toy store. He is shot and before he dies he does a little voodoo and transfers his soul into a Good Guy Doll.
A struggling single mother Karen Barclay (played by 7th Heaven's Catherine Hicks) can't afford to get her six-year-old son, Andy, a Good Guy doll for his birthday, but luckily her best-friend Maggie finds a homeless man who happens to have the doll and Karen buys the doll. Andy loves the talking doll that calls itself, “Chucky.”
That very night Maggie volunteers to babysit Andy while Karen works the night shift. Karen comes home to a swarm of police cars outside her apartment building. Maggie was pushed out of a window and fell to her death. The only suspect is Andy, who claims his doll Chucky is responsible.
Director: Tom Holland
Starring: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Douriff
Studio: MGM
Release Date: September 15, 2009
ASIN: B002BE7JE8
Running Time: 87 minutes
Rating: R
Review:
Child's Play was released to theaters when I was seven years old, but I didn't see Chucky's first outing until the mid-90s on TNT's Monster Vision (when it was on Friday nights). I liked it so much, that I bought the movie on VHS, though it had a white fuzz to the film. I bought 2-5 on a DVD set several years ago and of course, I bought Curse of Chucky this month, but I wanted to own Child's Play on DVD too. I ended up ordering the Blu-Ray + DVD combo as it was cheaper than the DVD version. The DVD in the 2-disc set is Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition which was released in 2008.
Though you probably already know the plot, I'll still recap it for those who haven't seen it. First released in 1988, Child's Play opens up with Charles Lee Ray being chased by the police into a toy store. He is shot and before he dies he does a little voodoo and transfers his soul into a Good Guy Doll.
A struggling single mother Karen Barclay (played by 7th Heaven's Catherine Hicks) can't afford to get her six-year-old son, Andy, a Good Guy doll for his birthday, but luckily her best-friend Maggie finds a homeless man who happens to have the doll and Karen buys the doll. Andy loves the talking doll that calls itself, “Chucky.”
That very night Maggie volunteers to babysit Andy while Karen works the night shift. Karen comes home to a swarm of police cars outside her apartment building. Maggie was pushed out of a window and fell to her death. The only suspect is Andy, who claims his doll Chucky is responsible.