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CHILD'S PLAY 3 (1991)
Starring Justin Whalen and Perry Reeves A lot of people diss this movie, but it's O.K. Andy Barclay (Whalen), the boy from the first two movies, is now a teenager who's been sent to military academy. Naturally, the possessed doll that wants to possess his body, Chucky (the voice of Brad Dourif) comes looking for him. It survived its massacre at the Good Guys toy factory when some of its blood spilled into a vat of plastic. The company decides to turn on production of the Good Guy doll line. The first one they produce, naturally, is possessed by the spirit of Charles Lee Ray. The first victim, and subject of the best scene in the film, is the ritzy CEO of the toy company. Unfortunately, the Chucky formula doesn't work as well when things move to the military academy. The film is kind of a cross between "The Lords of Discipline" and the original "Child's Play." Andy finds himself the victim of abusive academy superiors, while he's trying to stop Chucky, who now wants to posses the body of another boy at the school. Chucky gets some good lines in ("I'm gonna be a bro!" he says, after learning the new boy he's going to possess is black), but this movie pales in comparison with the first two. Still, it's better than a lot of the fear flicks that came out in the early 1990s, a pretty dead time for the genre. It also has a pretty big budget -- for a Chucky film, that is. Worth watching. It was a bit of a flop. It would take a long seven years later for the absolutely outstanding follow up, "Bride of Chucky," to be made, after the success of "Scream" resurrected the genre. |
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