Cult of Chucky
Cult of Chucky
R | 12 October 2017 (USA)
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Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.

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jpasols

So 'Cult of Chucky' is the seventh film in the long running and now very well known 'Child's Play' franchise, following 2013's 'Curse Of Chucky'. I'm giving this a 6 out of 10 stars because while I do enjoy the series I just felt that this particular film went a bunch of different directions story wise. There was too many different stories molded together in this one 90 min film and most of the time it was flat out confusing. I do appreciate they kept Brad Dourif as Chucky because nobody can do it better. It's cool they keep a lot of the same actors and characters from previous Chucky films including Chucky's original victim, Andy Barclay, still portrayed by original actor Alex Vincent. Back to some of the more negative aspects of this film a lot of it reminded me of Jason Goes To Hell with all the body jumping there was that Chucky did. He put his soul in several different good guy doll and even possessed Nica at the end. Turning Chucky into a feminine character and he rides off with Tiffany in her human form and doll form in a car at the end of the film. To me that was ridiculous. The ending of this film was horrible, most of the graphics were cheesy and most of the new characters were pointless and you pretty much just wanted everyone to die. However while this film may not be the best it is still a very entertaining and fun slasher flick with plenty of cheesy Gore)(which I actually do appreciate). I guess what I was looking for in this film was more of a story that made more sense and felt less comical. I thought Curse Of Chucky was probably the more scarier of the series since the original. I do recommend this film to hard core horror fans and Chucky fans. But if you're new to the series and not too big on horror films, I would say steer clear of this one.

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deltagilbert

Literally one of the worst films I've ever seen. I saw Child's Play 1 and 2 years ago and enjoyed them but skipped over the later movies. Watched this as I saw it had a great review somewhere online in those 'overlooked horror movie' lists. But wow. This was awful. I was angry with myself for watching until the end. Total garbage.

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jadavix

For most of "Cult of Chucky"'s run-time, I was thinking that any fan of the series could have come up with a better movie than this. But then in the last twenty or so minutes, I saw a bit of what the movie should have been for its entire length. Chucky is barely even in it up until these last moments, and there is barely any violence, or attempt to scare.The title "Cult of Chucky" seems to imply that the movie features a quasi-religious "cult" who worships the killer doll. This is not true, but it would have been interesting. Rather, it features more than one killer Chucky doll, at the end at least. It doesn't do anything with this idea and it hardly seems to matter to the plot. Instead it goes for the whole "heroine from the last movie is now in an asylum because nobody believes her story" route. It's pretty underwhelming.Fans of the series might nevertheless be interested in seeing Alex Vincent, the actor who played Andy in the original three Childs' Play movies, returning as an adult. Jennifer Tilly also makes a few appearances, presumably for the sake of tying this movie to "Bride of Chucky" and "Seed of Chucky" in continuity. She doesn't really do anything here other than appear.Fiona Dourif, daughter of Brad (the voice of Chucky in every entry, including this one), also returns as the protagonist. She's really the bright spot here; her performance is about the only spark of creativity in the whole movie. Toward the end, they seem to be trying to make her look even more like her daddy.

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FlashCallahan

Confined to an asylum for the past four years, Nica Pierce is convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family.But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapy to facilitate his group sesions, a Good Guy doll, a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn't crazy after all. Andy Barclay, Chucky's original nemesis, races to Nica's aid. But to save her he'll have to get past Tiffany, Chucky's long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter what, to help her beloved devil doll.The Child's Play films have gone through a strange transition since its debut thirty years ago. You could say that they are three different franchises.The first three films were a trilogy, they were good movies, but by the third, they had run their cause and due to media exploitation, became obsolete.Bride and Seed came later, and I feel that these were made because of the elevated interest in ironic horror thanks to the Scream franchise. Whilst Bride was refreshing and very self aware, Seed was terrible and was just a cash cow.Now these new incarnations are nothing more than straight to Blu Ray movies because the doll has a following, and I feel that these films will go on and on, because like myself, fans of the original films just want want a film in this franchise that will hark back to its heyday.This isn't the one unfortunately. It has some very good ideas, multiple Chucky's is a wonderful inclusion, but the rest of the film is poorly written, with strange characters, and it feels like a weird hash of Cuckoos Nest, and Elm Street 3.The Asylum setting has been done to death, as have sinister doctors, unprofessional nurses, and inmates who may or may not have an ulterior motive.Chucky has some decent scenes, and it alone is the sole reason to see this, but it's a shame that the story had to be convoluted to the point of you not caring less for the characters.It's a shame because out of all the iconic horror characters from the eighties, Chucky is one of the most interesting, but writing hasn't done it justice.

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