History Film / ChildsPlay

* TraumaCongaLine: Chucky undergoes a [[AssholeVictim very satisfying]] one in ''Child's Play 2''

* AdultFear: When Mrs. Barclay thinks her son might be a killer and later when she finds out there's a serial killer after him.

*** Also, the evidence room in ''Bride of Chucky'' contains several pieces of evidence that are shout-outs to other movies, including Jason's hockey mask from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and Michael Myers' mask from ''Film/{{Halloween}}''; additionaly, in ''Seed of Chucky'', Chucky hacks through a door with an axe exactly like Jack from ''TheShining'', but the shout-out is subverted because he can't think of anything to say.

*** Also, the evidence room in ''Bride of Chucky'' contains several pieces of evidence that are shout-outs to other movies, including Jason's hockey mask from ''Film/FridayThe13th'' and Michael Myers' mask from ''Film/{{Halloween}}''; additionaly, in ''Seed of Chucky'', Chucky hacks through a door with an axe exactly like Jack from ''TheShining'', but the shout-out is subverted because he can't think of anything to say.

Following a recent trend of remakes for classic horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, plans for a Child's Play remake were announced in 2008. The creators intend to abandon the comedic approach and make Chucky scary again. The new film, entitled ''Curse of Chucky'' will be a Direct-to-DVD sequel, with Don Mancini directing and Brad Dourif reprising his role as Chucky. Production will begin in late September

* ''Child's Play: The Video Game'' TBA

* AxCrazy: Chucky in all episodes.

* CassandraTruth: No one ever believes Andy about Chucky.

* {{Joisey}}: In ''Bride of Chucky'', we learn that Charles Lee Ray's remains are buried in [[AWorldwidePunomenon Hackensack]].

Following a recent trend of remakes for classic horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, plans for a Child's Play remake were announced in 2008. The creators intended to abandon the comedic approach and make Chucky scary again. As of October 2010, Don Mancini was reported as still working on the script.

** Finally, at the end of ''Child's Play 3'', [[spoiler:Chucky is killed... again, but Andy is arrested and likely will be sent to prison for Chucky's crimes.]]

The second film does not feature Karen Barclay, though the character survived the previous film. But her story about a killer doll resulted in her being taken away for "psychological evaluation". The 8-year-old Andy has been placed in the [[FosterKid Foster Care System]]. He is placed in the care of Phil and Joanne Simpson (Gerrit Graham and Jenny Agutter). But Charles Lee Ray has found a new doll to be his host and is still obsessed with the boy. He soon locates Andy and the incidents start again. Unfortunately the Simpsons' suspect fostered teen Kyle (Christine Elise) as the culprit. Now Andy and Kyle have to face the killer with no outside help.

The fourth film is actually a [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Horror Comedy]] with an emphasis on comedy. It opens with events immidiately following the previous film. The Chucky doll has been destroyed and Charles may be gone for good. However, his former lover and accomplice Tiffany (JenniferTilly) has other ideas. She crudely stitches Chucky's remains back together and reenacts the voodoo ritual which instilled Ray inside the doll a decade ago. Charles is successfully revived. Tiffany at first makes fun of his condition and torments him. He retaliates by killing her body and transferring her soul to a female doll. Now they both need new bodies and local teenage rebels Jade (Katherine Heigl) and Jesse (Nick Stabile) seem good candidates. Meanwhile Charles and Tiffany explore their mutual feelings of love, lust and hate for each other.

* AndIMustScream: Its implicated in the ''[[HackSlash Hack/Slash]]'' crossover that Chucky is stuck in a state similar to this whenever his body is destroyed.

** Finally, at the end of Child's Play 3, [[spoiler:Chucky is killed... again, but Andy is arrested and likely will be sent to prison for Chucky's crimes.]]

* DontExplainTheJoke: In ''Seed'', Chucky and "Glen" are out joyriding, when Chucky [[CrossesTheLineTwice runs Britney Spears off the road]]. This would've been a lot funnier if every trailer didn't contain the disclaimer "BritneySpears Does Not Appear In This Movie" in big bold letters.

* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Haitian Creole]]: Heavily averted with Chucky's BodySurf spell.

*** The second movie overuses this trope. It opens with a close up of Chucky's eye being removed. In extended footage from the tv version, chucky's eye falls into a vat of plastic and is built into a new doll.

* GratuitousJapanese: Spoken by Glen/Glenda in ''Seed''. [[FridgeLogic Apparently justified by his doll being made in Japan]].

* HowManyTimesDoIHaveToKillYou: Chucky just keeps on coming back...
** LampShaded in ''Bride'':
-->'''Chucky:''' Go ahead and shoot! I'll be back, I always come back...but dying is such a bitch.
* IdiotBall: In ''Child's Play 2'', Kyle painfully drops a gate onto Chucky's now flesh and blood hand, trapping him temporarily. They don't take the chance to kill him. They don't even take away his knife. They run away. [[WhatAnIdiot What the hell]].
* IWasJustJoking: At the climax of 2, when Chucky is strapped to a ConveyorBeltOfDoom, he calls out to Andy, "I was only playin'!"

* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: Chucky's doll form gradually turns from plastic to flesh the longer he stays in it. Given enough time, it's possible to kill him with a single gunshot.
** Actually, his gradual humaness doesn't grant *that* much of an advantage. Even in part 2, the only time its acknowledged that he turned fully human, he still seemed to be [[MadeOfIron made of iron]]. In the first film, shooting him in the heart was the ONLY way to kill him, as burning and dismembering him didn't have much effect at all.

* OneHundredScariestMovieMoments: Number 94

--> '''Andy:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "This is the end, friend!"]]

* TheRedStapler: Inverted. Ever hear of "My Buddy" dolls? They looked a lot like Chucky. And the series effectively scrapped the line.
** Played straight as well, as you can buy full-sized Chuckie dolls.

* VillainousBreakdown: In Child's Play 2, Chucky goes complete rage mode when [[spoiler:he fails to transfer his soul into Andy's body.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy doesn't return after the third Child's Play movie. The movie ends with him being brought in by the police for questioning. Same thing applies to Tyler as well.

** The part where Chucky is playing with a Speak & Spell and types in 'bitch' when it asks him to spell 'woman' is a reference to the scene in ''[[TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III]]'' where Leatherface is playing an electronic word game and he keeps typing in 'food' when it's showing a picture of a clown.

* ShoutOut: There are several, starting from ''Bride of Chucky''. References to ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (Tiffany watches this very film while bathing, and even quotes later, ''"We belong dead"'') and ''{{Hellraiser}}'' (''"Why does this seem so familiar?"'' as a guy gets nails in his face).

The film was a low-budget movie but turned out to be a modest box office hit. Its worldwide gross estimated to 44,196, 684 dollars. About 33 million of them came from the United States market, where it was the 33rd most successful film of its year. Reviews were mostly positive. Naturally a sequel was soon put on schedule.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Child's Play'' creator Don Mancini original conception of Child's play was completely different. Originally titled Blood Buddy. The dolls would have synthetic blood and Andy would mix his blood with Buddy's fake blood as part of a blood brother ritual. The doll would come alive as a manifestion of the Andy's ID and kill the people Andy had unexpressed anger toward.

-->''You'll wish it was only make-believe.''

** In ''Seed of Chucky'', Tiffany and Chucky call their gender-confused child Glen and Glenda respectively, a shout out to the EdWood film, ''Glen or Glenda''.

* CerebusSyndrome: Inverted. The series turned into self parody with "Bride".

* AssholeVictim: [[SadistTeacher Mrs. Kettlewell]] in the second, [[JerkJock Shelton]] in the third.
** Don't forget the couple who steal Jesse and Jade's money in ''Bride of Chucky''.
** Also from ''Bride of Chucky'', Jade's DirtyCop uncle, Warren.