Cult of Chucky Review
Director/Writer: Don Mancini
Starring: Brad Dourif (voice for Chucky), Jennifer Tilly, Alex Vincent, Fiona
Dourif, Michael Therriault, Adam Hurtig
It’s that wonderful time of year where new horror movies
seem to appear for everyone’s viewing pleasure. After a short four-year hiatus,
Chucky is back! While he hasn’t really been gone that long, it was about that
time for the series to add another murderous adventure for the evil “Good Guys”
doll.
While I do believe most of the time you can jump into any of
these Child’s Play sequels with no problem, for this one it would probably be
best to see Curse of Chucky before you watch sit down to watch Cult of Chucky.
This movie takes place a couple of years after Curse of Chucky and survivor
Nica (played by Fiona Dourif) has been institutionalized after claiming a doll
killed her whole family. After years of “treatment” (I’ll use that word
loosely) Nica is unsure about what did or did not happen. Don’t worry though,
Chucky finds a way into her current institution and at that point all kinds of
weird things start to happen.
Nica and Chucky are not the only characters that are back
for this installment of the Chucky franchise. The movie kicks off with a Chucky
film vet, Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) out on a date. It gets awkward very quickly though, it
becomes apparent that his date had googled him and now has questions about his
past. Needless to say, that date didn’t
last long after he took some time to talk about how many people have died. Don’t
worry though, what better way to get over a bad date then to go home and spend a
little time with the head of his very own Chucky doll, doll torture scene
included. However, Andy isn’t the only
one that is back, we get a few delightful scenes with Chucky’s wife Tiffany
Valentine (Jennifer Tilly) and just like Chucky she is up to no go. It’s nice
to have a series with more reoccurring characters than just the main killer,
especially when you consider the fact that Andy Barclay has been around since
the original Child’s Play movies, Tiffany Valentine is always fun to watch in
this series and this movie is now different.
The location for this movie was perfect. The struggle of
wither or not the characters know what’s going on is real or if it is just apart
of some crazy delusion was clearly a lot of fun for Don Mancini to write, there
are a few very quotable one liner gems in this film. While this was a Chucky
movie, some of the surrounding story in this movie was indeed terrifying. Dr.
Foley was a bad boy. The psychological manipulation he uses on Nica is down
right scary considered what he implies during those scenes. Madeleine, well I
don’t know what to say about Madeleine, she just freaked me out. You’ll have to
make your own opinions about her.
Overall the movie was a lot of fun. Watching Chucky interact
with different characters in this film was hilarious at times, but there is a
slight chance that it stopped the movie from really being scary. I just spent a
lot of time laughing. On the other hand, the deaths were great, there were some
very creative kills pulled off by Chucky through out the whole movie. Plus,
there being multiple Chucky dolls killing with the same objective added a whole
other level of messed up. The ending had a fun twist though, I’m excited to see
where Mancini takes this series next.
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