Trivia / Child's Play 3

• Banned in China: In the UK on 12th February 1993, two year old James Bulger was murdered by ten-year-old boys Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Venables' father had rented the film a few months prior, leading the press to speculate that the boys had been inspired by its events. The film was banned in the UK until 2002.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $13 million. Box office, $20.5 million.
• Cast the Expert: Real students and instructors of Kemper Military Academy, where the movie was filmed, were used as extras in the film.
• Creator Backlash:
  • This is Brad Dourif's least favourite film in the series.
  • Don Mancini said that this was his least favorite entry in the series, adding that he ran out of ideas after the second film. He elaborated further in 2013 stating that he was not pleased with the casting, particularly with Jeremy Sylvers and Dakin Matthews as Tyler and Colonel Cochrane respectively; he felt that the former was too old for the role and the latter was not the "R. Lee Ermey" archetype he was hoping for.
• The Danza: As far as the 2021 series is concerned, Mr. Sullivan's first name is revealed to be Haskell, which happens to be the surname of his actor Peter Haskell.
• Deleted Scene: In a deleted scene that is seen during some television airings of the film, Tyler is seen playing an Atari Lynx portable video game system (which has been modified to mask the name of the system) while riding on the bus to the Military School. Appropriately, he is playing the Military Jet Fighting / Flying Simulation game "Blue Lightning". He is later seen in the theatrical cut of the film playing (presumably) this same game while waiting to get his hair cut by the barber, although the video game's screen is not shown in this later scene.
• Franchise Killer: The series went dormant for seven years after the film met diminishing returns, the killer Chucky having lost his edge and the film losing the mix of Black Comedy and frights that characterized the first two films; even series creator Don Mancini sees this as the worst film in the franchise.
• The Other Darrin: As Andy's original actor, Alex Vincent (Actor), was too young to have believably aged with the character in the chronological eight years since the events of the previous film, Andy is instead played by Justin Whalin.
• Production Posse: Terry Wills, who plays the ill-fated garbage man, had another a bit part as a photographer in another Bender/Kirschner production a year earlier in television film The Dreamer of Oz. Had John Ritter been cast in this installment as noted in What Could Have Been below, it would have reunited Wills and Ritter, as Ritter also appeared in said TV film.
• Refitted for Sequel: The opening scene was originally how Child's Play 2 would have ended (and, in fact, a different version of it is used in some TV versions).
  • It was also how the first film was going to end back when the factory was the intended finale.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Peter Jackson was asked to direct.
  • John Ritter was originally supposed to appear as a security guard at the Good Guy Doll Factory in a sequence where some kids sneak into the factory and discuss the Chucky myth. Ritter later appeared in Bride of Chucky in a supporting role.
  • In addition to the scene featuring Ritter, earlier drafts also included scenes such as:
    • Chucky killing Sullivan not just For the Evulz but making it more motivated due to Sullivan indirectly trapping him in an And I Must Scream state for eight years(Chucky's head is already rebuilt by the time the story starts).
    • Tyler, named Johnson at this point, getting picked up by two cops on the side of a road instead of him heading to the carnival security guard for help, indirectly leading the officers to getting shot in the head by Chucky.
    • Andy and De Silva losing Johnson and Chucky in a crowd of kids who have their own Good Guy dolls.
    • A much more elaborate final set-piece that only begins in the dark ride, where Chucky gets stabbed by motion-triggered metal spikes(rather than hit with a scythe as in the final version). After this, he scares a group of bullies who think he's All Part of the Show by pulling a knife on them.
    • Chucky attempting to perform his final ritual on an outdoor rollercoaster(somewhat nonsensically combined with the dark ride in the final version), where Chucky scares a nerdy patron into accidentally clotheslining—and decapitating—himself via a tunnel.
    • Chucky's death was significantly different; Andy shoots him into the path of the coaster's train. It then launches the killer doll into a brick wall so hard that he explodes.
    • A happier ending where Andy and De Silva depart the carnival midway with Johnson, rather than Andy being taken into police custody.

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