Taking a tip from the previous movie's alternate ending, the opening sequence wherein a new Chucky is slowly created following a trickle of blood into the plastic vat from his old body which had been ripped up off the floor and carried away. Topped off nicely with his sudden outburst so you know for sure that it's him.
The build up to Mr. Sullivan's death. Aside from the Hitchcockian tension of Sullivan unknowingly taking the doll animated by the Lakeshore Strangler in his apartment, and not noticing that it broke out of its box, imagine being in his shoes: you're chilling in your office after a long day of work, when suddenly the TV turns off, then you painfully fall to the ground from stepping on marbles that somehow got scattered, and the toys around you, including two talking Good Guy dolls, seemingly activate on their own and almost hurt you twice. It's all strange and eerie, but you're still with your feet in reality and thinking rationally... then all of the sudden a screaming, Nightmare Face-d Chucky strikes you in the head with a golf bat. Reality comes crashing down with it: that Andy Barclay wasn't a crazy kid in all these years, Chucky IS alive and possessed by a sadistic Serial Killer, and you're his next victim, all alone and defenseless in your high-life house you assumed was safe. "Oh my God" indeed.
Something just seems off about this image◊, where Chucky is on the computer in a dimly lit office. It almost looks like he's about to materialize from the screen.
It's saddening more than anything, but the poor garbage man's death is still an ugly and nightmarish way to go: you dived right into the rubbish of the garbage truck to help some screaming guy who somehow fell into it, only for then to see that the trash compactor activated itself and is slowly pushing you towards the grinder, which is a rolling spiked cylinder. The garbage surrounding you makes your escape very difficult, and you don't make it out in time, you only get your hand painfully crushed between the hood and the compactor, before being shoved into a Cruel and Unusual Death.
Sgt. Botnick is an Asshole Victim due to him being a jerk with a shaving fixation (to the point he feels the need to do that with a Good Guy doll), but in all fairness, it's still a bit unsettling to imagine yourself doing something innocuous only to see a doll suddenly spring to life and swiftly slitting your throat with a razor, which you only teased the cadets with, and getting your Catchphrase turned against you "Presto, you're dead!" to boot.
As funny as Chucky spooking Whitehurst (who had walked into the murder scene) making him run away is, seeing Whitehurst so utterly shaken by what he just saw is far from amusing: the poor guy can barely stand on his feet when he runs outside and has to join the others for the training. Who knows what was going on in his head in that moment, maybe thinking he was going insane and he just imagined it? Feeling logic and rationality crumbling down but refusing to accept it not wanting to become like Andy who notoriously ruined his own life by claiming the doll to be alive, despite everything adding up now? Being terrorized at the prospect of having to return to the school where there's a killer doll lurking around not knowing how to tell the others of the danger without being considered a loon or even worse becoming a suspect of Sgt. Botnick's murder? Certainly, pure Nightmare Fuel was taking over his very being after witnessing that awful sight.
The idea of being stalked through a Haunted House Ride by a furious killer doll is not the type of thing that helps one sleep at night.
Much like the doll factory from the previous film, the Haunted House Ride is a safety hazard with a grim reaper animatronic that swings a real, and really sharp scythe near the passengers and there's a giant uncovered fan that is able to blend human flesh into pieces.
As seen in the page image, Chucky's face being sliced in half by a giant swinging scythe, revealing the bloody muscle and sinew beneath. Ouch.
Not helping is the slo-motion close-up of his sliced-up face during his Disney Villain Death.
◊, where Chucky is on the computer in a dimly lit office. It almost looks like he's about to materialize from the screen.
