When I first watched Child’s Play, there were moments when I’d forget Chucky was a doll. Ray’s physical form may be removed from the equation, but his traits-his deep voice, maniacal laugh, and nasty humor-live on in Chucky. But these acts are mild compared to the doll’s ultimate goal: continuing Ray’s murder spree. Chucky befriends Andy, encouraging the boy to do things like skip school and repeat foul language. It doesn’t take long for Ray’s twisted spirit to emerge. Soon after, a peddler finds the toy and sells it to a single mother named Karen (Catherine Hicks), who gives it to her young son, Andy (Alex Vincent). His desperate final moments reveal a cunning and methodical personality Ray is a character without an ounce of morality who’s willing to project his malicious intents onto a child’s plaything. “Oh God, I’m dying,” he cries out-one of the movie’s most quoted lines-before performing a ritual that transfers his mind and soul into a nearby doll. After a short chase, Ray is shot by cops inside a toy store and left for dead. In the tense opening scene of Child’s Play, viewers meet Ray, a voodoo-practicing psychopath known as the Lakeshore Strangler. At their best, creepy-doll movies underscore the notion that however plasticine or artificial the conduit, the evil and horror on display is inherently human. Today, Child’s Play is a reminder that dolls have been a mainstay of the genre for decades, in part because of how they tap into fears about corrupted innocence and bodily possession. But Tom Holland’s film turned Chucky into a chilling and iconic villain who went on to star in six more movies.
Ray chucky movie#
Any scary movie can cast mundane objects in a sinister light, as The Ring did for wells and as It did for red balloons. But I was never genuinely frightened of them-let alone imagined one of them attacking me with a switchblade-until I saw Child’s Play. At the time, dolls filled every corner of my childhood bedroom. At the time, Roger Ebert called the movie slick and clever, noting that it “succeeded in creating a truly malevolent doll.
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Possessed by the spirit of a fictional serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, the doll unleashed a bloodbath in the 1988 horror film Child’s Play. Tack on the freckled cheeks and playful red hair, and it was hard to imagine this toy as the embodiment of evil. Wanna play?” His blue eyes and adorable bibbed overalls were deceiving.
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