Line #40 Film/CurseOfChucky


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} Evil has a new home.]]'']]
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4	->'''Alice:''' Chucky, I'm scared.\
5	'''Chucky:''' You fuckin' should be.
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7	The sixth film in the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' series, and the first released directly to video.
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9	Twenty-five years after the events of the first film, Chucky appears on the doorstep of Nica, a young paraplegic woman. Of course, everyone around her soon starts dying, and Nica discovers she may have a past connection with Chucky.
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12	!!This film provides examples of:
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14	* AlmostOutOfOxygen: [[spoiler:Chucky traps Nica in the garage and begins revving the car to suffocate her with the exhaust fumes before she's able to smash the driver's side window.]]
15	* AssholeVictim: There are many victims who arguably had it coming.
16	** [[spoiler: Barb is a bully and a very unlikable individual who is very likely a HateSink. Few would mourn the character's demise.]]
17	** [[spoiler:Barb's aide, Jill,]] is not only having an affair with [[spoiler:her employer but has even has a sexy video chat whilst the daughter of the marriage she's ruining is sleeping in the same room. Also, despite feeling guilt over hurting Nica and the rest of her family, she still proceeds with conspiring with Barb likely out of fear of losing her affection]].
18	** Even [[spoiler: Ian]] enters this trope when [[spoiler: he blames Nica for the deaths, ties her up to interrogate her regarding his daughter's location, and refuses to help her when she starts having a heart attack.]]
19	** Not only does he give a scathing speech towards [[spoiler: the wrongly accused Nica en route to jail in a deleted scene, Officer Stanton]] also turns out to be [[DirtyCop corrupt]] and is [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves duly rewarded.]]
20	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Chucky successfully gets revenge on Nica's family, killing almost all of them except Alice and Nica herself, and frames Nica for his crimes, causing her to be sent to a mental institution. His ''next'' plan however...]]
21	* BaitAndSwitch:
22	** [[spoiler:After all the build-up regarding whose bowl of chili Chucky spiked with rat poison, it's finally revealed to be Father Frank. However, rather than dying from the poison itself, it instead causes him to lose focus driving to the point where he crashes his car, [[OffWithHisHead getting decapitated]] once the metal pinning his head in place is removed.]]
23	** [[spoiler:We're led to believe that Ian is having an affair with his daughter's babysitter Jill. However, it's revealed that it's his wife Barb is the one having the affair with Jill]].
24	* BigBadWannabe: Barb would make a proper SoapOpera villainess [[WrongGenreSavvy if she wasn't in a]] KillerDoll SlasherMovie.
25	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Pierce family is seriously messed up and filled with corruption, especially from Barb.
26	* BigSisterBully: Barb is revealed to be this towards Nica due to resenting her for her "special privileges" as a result of her being paraplegic from the waist down.
27	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:The seemingly laid-back Ian turns out to be a prick and a misinformed, somewhat possessive and boorish father who when she goes missing goes crazy towards the wrong person, Nica.]]
28	* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, but she does take pleasure in mocking Chucky's inability to kill her. Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her. However, it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]
29	** [[spoiler: ''Cult Of Chucky'' reveals that the Chucky sent to Andy wasn't the same Chucky we followed throughout the movie. That Chucky successfully managed to possess Alice, killed a few people, but later got stopped and killed, killing Alice as well, making the ending more bitter than sweet.]]
30	* BlindedByRage: [[spoiler:Nica taunts Chucky about his "completion anxiety" over his never being able to kill Andy and her after twenty-five years. This buys her enough time for the power to come back on, allowing her to escape into the elevator.]]
31	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Andy greets Chucky by putting a shotgun point blank to his face before he can react. The movie ends with the gunshot.]]
32	* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Ian does this to Nica which only shown him to have TookInLevelInJerkass, so he can initially attempt to sic the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on her to make her spill out Alice's location while preparing to intend to turn her over to the authorities once they arrive at the house with Nica gift wrapped for them to arrest her at ease without any physical resistance from her end and after Ian rescues Alice from Nica's clutches. While Ian believes he's being a PapaWolf if his daughter is in danger, this is instead framed as ultimately his MoralEventHorizon, followed by ending up paying for it as an AssholeVictim not long after.]][[invoked]]
33	* BullyingTheDisabled: Barb towards Nica, whom she resents for her paraplegia. [[spoiler:Ian does this after blaming Nica for the murders by tying her to her wheelchair to interrogate her for kidnapping Alice.]]
34	* TheBusCameBack: For [[spoiler:Andy Barclay. He's even played by the same actor who played him in the first two movies.]]
35	* CainAndAbel: Barb is the Cain to Nica's Abel.
36	* CallBack:
37	** Alice quoting Chucky to her mother including his profane language is a direct reference to Andy doing the same to his mother in the first film.
38	** [[spoiler:Tiffany killing the dirty cop at the end who she paid to smuggle her Chucky shares the same dialogue and death as the cop she killed at the beginning of ''Bride''.]]
39	* CallForward: In the flashbacks, the knife human Chucky wields is the same as the one he wields as a doll in the first movie, thus explaining how he got it: after transferring his soul, he took the knife from his human body and hid it in his overalls.
40	* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]].
41	--> '''Chucky:''' (''staring at Jill's corpse'') Women, can't live with 'em. [[BaitAndSwitch Period]]. (''laughs'')
42	* CastingGag: Barb, whose actress has narrow eyes compared to most people, is told by Chucky that she has her mother's eyes and that he always disliked how close together they were.
43	* CelebrityParadox: An odd variant, as Ian says the Good Guy dolls were on the same level of popularity as the Cabbage Patch Kids, which were an inspiration for the Good Guy dolls by Don Mancini's admission.
44	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Barb warns Nica that with her condition she's prone to heart palpitations when under stress. While it mostly comes off as Barb being patronizing, this does end up happening when Nica is almost suffocated by Chucky in the garage.]]
45	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Alice is completely oblivious that Chucky is a killer doll and by the end of the movie, [[spoiler: she is convinced that it was Nica who killed her parents and the nanny.]]
46	* DangerTakesABackseat: That [[spoiler: dirty cop]] should really know better to check his car's backseat when you're in a horror movie. [[spoiler: Might have noticed a psychotic woman waiting with a knife.]]
47	* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more of a straight horror movie than the previous two movies, which were basically outright comedies.
48	* DeadpanSnarker: Again Chucky has a few of these moments including making a cruel joke Nica can feel pain in her hands after stabbing her fingers during the climax.
49	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The ''Film/SinCity''-like FlashBack, with the odd SplashOfColor.
50	* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Barb is a having an affair with Jill, and is very selfish and manipulative.]]
51	* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes a ''very'' long time for anything to happen.
52	* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:It's safe to say that Chucky decidedly didn't see Andy ''expecting'' him and greeting him with a shotgun pointed directly at his face coming.]]
53	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Andy Barclay, of all characters, is suggested to be this in the stinger, until it's subverted in ''Film/CultOfChucky''.]]
54	* EvilCripple: Both [[spoiler: Ian and the police]] accuse Nica of being the real culprit. The truth doesn't help her case. [[spoiler: The general public likely perceives her as a crazed murderer who butchered her own mother, sister, brother-in-law and a priest.]]
55	* EyeScream:
56	** [[spoiler:Barb]] is killed with a knife through the eye (and judging by how quickly it kills them, presumably through the brain).
57	---> '''Chucky:''' [[spoiler: You have your mother's eyes... And they were always too FUCKING CLOSE TOGETHER!]]
58	** One of [[spoiler:Jill's]] eyes also gets burned out from their HighVoltageDeath.
59	* FallGuy: In the end, the murders are pinned on [[spoiler: Nica by the police. There was evidence to back Nica's claims she didn't do it, chief among them the video evidence from the nanny cam. However, her fingerprints were on each murder weapon and she was ranting about a killer doll being responsible. That would mean the police probably had little motivation to look for evidence that proved her innocent and every desire to pin this bloodbath on their only real suspect.]]
60	* FeelNoPain: [[spoiler:Nica takes advantage of her paralyzed legs being unable to feel anything by using them to absorb an axe swing from Chucky.]]
61	* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlashedThroat from her sharpened fingernails.
62	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Nica, who ends up getting locked up for the murders committed by Chucky. However, she still finds satisfaction in surviving Chucky's reign of terror.]]
63	* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:When Nica locks herself in the house's elevator to escape Chucky, she has to physically hold the door shut, allowing him to slash at her fingers which unlike her legs can feel pain. She eventually just grabs the knife by the blade to wrench it away from him.]]
64	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When Chucky electrocutes Jill to death, a huge burn appears on her right eye that's very similar to the mark on Chucky's scarred face, which the audience doesn't see until later on in the film.]]
65	* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not being married to someone who's rich, does want to sell her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly barista as she expected something more high-class than that.
66	* HenpeckedHusband: Ian is one for Barb, who [[spoiler:treats him like trash and cheats on him with Jill]].
67	* HiddenDepths: Ian seems rather preoccupied with the sexy nanny, Jill. But it's revealed [[spoiler: she's actually having an affair with his wife and he's already suspected as much. In fact, he's taken steps to secure the evidence, which he intends to use to win their custody battle for their daughter. Much to Barb's surprise and horror as Ian also behaves like a jerk about it.]]
68	* HighVoltageDeath: How [[spoiler:Jill meets her end]].
69	* HowWeGotHere: A flashback reveals that it was [[spoiler: Charles Lee Ray killing Nica's father and stabbing her mother in the stomach, resulting in her being born paraplegic, that led to him being chased by police and taking refuge in the toy store at the beginning of the first film]].
70	* HumanMail: Chucky is sent to the house via special delivery by a mystery sender. [[spoiler:Tiffany mails Chucky to Andy again. It doesn't work out as well as Chucky expected]].
71	* ImperiledInPregnancy: A pre-doll transformation Charles Lee Ray is seen [[spoiler: stabbing a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances.]]
72	* InTheStyleOf: Due to the DirectToVideo[[invoked]] nature of this installment, its limited production value gives this film a vibe of a ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode.
73	* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Despite thinking Nica of being a murderer is a logical hunch on Ian's part as noted below in JerkassHasAPoint, it's still irrationally and practically impossible due to Nica's paralysis and being wheelchair bound would make her too weak and slow to commit those murders, yet Ian still insists Nica's the culprit.]]
74	* ItsAllAboutMe: Barb is selfish and manipulative. [[spoiler:Ian also shows some of this aspect as well.]]
75	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler:Ian tries this by tying Nica up upon believing her to be a BrokenPedestal to him after thinking she's the killer and Alice's kidnapper and at first interrogated her for Alice's whereabouts before taping her mouth when she does not comply to his demands, as he was also preparing to turn her over to the police once they arrive to the house after he rescues Alice by himself.]]
76	* JawBreaker: [[spoiler:Ian dies by getting his jaw hacked off with an axe.]]
77	* {{Jerkass}}: Barb, a self-serving BigSisterBully and an elitist GoldDigger RichBitch wannabe is resentful of her sister getting more attention from their mother, tries to manipulate Nica to sell their family home because she wants cash, [[spoiler: has an affair with Jill]] and seems only concerned with herself.
78	* JerkassHasAPoint: Ian loses audience sympathy [[spoiler: for not believing Nica about Chucky, immediately viewing her as a psycho and then becoming a huge jerk. In his position there're two scenarios, Nica has lost her mind or a killer doll is on a rampage. Only one of those things is logical. However, it is worth noting that just before his death; when he replays the camera, he clearly sees Chucky move and hears a voice that he knows Nica will never replicate. By the time the former makes sense to him, he's already...[[ThisCannotBe forcibly speechless and presumably hesitating in denial]], [[TooDumbToLive which caused him to stoop to being an idiot as it would allow Chucky to ambush and then kill him]].]]
79	* JumpScare: [[spoiler:Just before the credits, no less, Alice's grandmother getting up with a plastic bag over her head, screaming.]]
80	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:Following blaming Nica for the murders, Ian takes advantage of her passing out from her heart attack to tie her up in preparation to interrogate her for Alice's whereabouts.]]
81	* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Jill is very feminine, and also is in a secret relationship with Barb]].
82	* MyBelovedSmother: Nica's mother Sarah is very overprotective, [[spoiler: due to how Nica was crippled in the womb and the trauma that caused her]], and there is noticeable tension as a result. When a delivery man openly flirts with her, Nica considers pursuing it further but her mother shoots the idea down, claiming he was [[BlatantLies just being friendly]].
83	--> '''Sarah:''' "''Nica'', he was just being nice. I'm sorry. Oh honey, I just don't ever want to see you get hurt."
84	* NewMediaAreEvil: Barb runs a print media business that she said is dead, resorting to her to find other means of gathering money.
85	* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: [[spoiler:Andy puts a shotgun at point-blank to Chucky's head when he shows up at his place and fires. Justified, as Chucky is small and quick, making point-blank range the best chance of killing him in one shot.]]
86	* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: [[spoiler:Creator/JenniferTilly is credited at the beginning of the ending credits in order to not spoil that Tiffany appears in the film. Similarly, Creator/AlexVincentActor isn't credited until after TheStinger so as to not reveal that he's an adult Andy.]]
87	* OhCrap: Chucky gets a genuine shit-your-pants one [[spoiler:when he finds himself staring down the barrel of Andy's shotgun during the after-credits scene]].
88	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Nica attempts to warn Barb about Chucky being alive, Barb assumes she's talking about the hidden camera Ian placed in the doll to monitor her and Jill's affair, causing her to angrily leave while holding him.
89	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:An unsympathetic example, as Ian WronglyAccused Nica of being a killer and Alice's kidnapper and tried to interrogate her after tying her up to squeeze out her daughter's location from her. However, rather showing him as a dedicated father who loves his children so much that he would take action, it instead shows him as a shortsighted, boorish, selfish, possessive and impulsive thug who judges his sister-in-law as the culprit and driven by narcissistic love for his daughter senselessly without ever listening to common reason like how can a wheelchair-bound woman commit murders in her feeble state and is easy to get disillusioned with Nica despite should knowing she would never harm her own family after bonding with her for years before the events of this film. Ian ends up no better than his wife Barb of being unworthy as Alice's parent.]]
90	* ParentalNeglect: As much as we can see, Barb doesn't seem to be a very good mother to her daughter.
91	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Barb seems to be an ableist as she resents her sister Nica for her paraplegia.
92	* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[VerbThis Play with this.]]"
93	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In a deleted scene, [[spoiler:en route to the police station, Officer Stanton contemptuously gives one to Nica after arresting her, even showing his WickedCultured HiddenDepths for his knowledge in ancient Egyptian history as he condemns her]].
94	* RedHerring: The interaction between Ian and Jill implies they will have an affair in the movie, [[AssholeVictim so we won't feel sorry for their deaths]]. [[spoiler:Jill is having an affair, but with Barb. We still don't feel sorry for Ian, after he became a jerk by viewing Nica as a killer and then tying her to her wheelchair to torture her to squeeze out his daughter Alice's location]].
95	* RememberTheNewGuy: [[spoiler:It turns out the Pierce family, specifically Sarah was the true cause behind the events that led to the opening of the original 1988 film.]]
96	* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich. However, it's implied she's the wealthiest of the Pierce family through her print media business until it went bankrupt. See GoldDigger above.
97	* ShoutOut:
98	** When Chucky arrives at [[spoiler:Andy's apartment]], the TV shows the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker short "The Screwball".
99	** The scene where [[spoiler:Andy]] says "[[PreMortemOneLiner Play with this]]" while wielding a shotgun is lifted almost verbatim from a scene in the 1991 ''Child's Play'' MockBuster "Dolly Dearest".
100	* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Jill]], frustrated by not being able to locate the doll for Alice, ends up getting one from [[spoiler: Barb.]]
101	* SmugSnake: Both Barb and [[spoiler: surprisingly Ian]] are presented as snide and arrogant people who are above everyone.
102	* TheSociopath: Barb can be considered this as she is selfish and manipulative, not caring for others except herself and likely implied never to have mourned for her mother's passing to begin with. Chucky is also this of course as usual in the series. While Chucky is a high-functioning example, Barb is a low-functioning example.
103	* SplashOfColor: The [[MonochromePast flashbacks are in black and white]] with a bit of color here and there.
104	* TheStinger: There's a post-credits scene in which [[spoiler:Chucky is mailed to Andy...only to be greeted with a shotgun pointed at his head when he emerges from his box. Of course, this later turns out to be a different Chucky.]]
105	* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:The look on [[FlatEarthAtheist Ian]]'s face after finding out Chucky is indeed real and committing the murders, yet he's in likely in denial at what he's seeing as he tries to [[StrawVulcan rationalized this and convince himself Nica's still the killer as he initially thought and not Chucky in his mind]], [[TooDumbToLive which causes him to drop his guard when Chucky ambushes him when he waited too long before killing him]].]]
106	* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Ian after viewing Nica as a BrokenPedestal and a murderer and becomes disillusioned by their prior relationship upon this erroneous revelation.]]
107	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:When Chucky returns to Alice at the end of the movie, she's not bothered at all by the horrible scars that are now visible on his face.]]
108	* VerbThis: [[spoiler:Andy]]'s PreMortemOneLiner: "Play with [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter this]]."
109	* VillainDecay: Inverted. There's not much humor involving Chucky, the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also a lot more angry, violent, and sadistic than he was in any of the past films. While this could be explained out-of-story as attempting to drop some of the humor introduced in the previous entries, it can be explained in-story as [[spoiler:Chucky having personal history with the family in question]].
110	* WhamShot:
111	** Chucky[[spoiler:'s rubber mask beginning to fall apart, revealing his still patched-up face]].
112	** A cop is about to transfer Chucky in an evidence bag... [[spoiler:and Tiffany springs up from the backseat of the car and slashes his throat]].
113	** Chucky being mailed to someone who is revealed to be [[spoiler:Andy Barclay]]. He is then greeted with [[spoiler:a shotgun to the head]].
114	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite Nica and Ian having a good in-law relationship in the film, [[spoiler:it ultimately turns out be hollow and feeble as Ian was quick to [[WronglyAccused wrongly accuse]] Nica as a BrokenPedestal to him for the deaths of Barb and Jill and Alice's kidnapping, while refusing to listen to Nica of what's really going on despite having known Nica all his life before the events of the film]].
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