November 15, 2014You know how sometimes a movie can seem pretty good when you first watch it and then when you revisit it a year later you realize it wasn't good at all? That was 'Curse of Chucky'. Upon it's release I actually praised it for not being 'Seed of Chucky'. We're still fortunate that it wasn't 'Seed of Chucky', but I realize now that that doesn't make it a good movie. Anyway, Brad Dourif's real-life daughter, Fiona, plays Nica, a wheelchair bound young lady who lives with her mom in a big house. When a package shows up with a Good Guys doll inside (and nobody seems to remember the sordid history of those dolls even though they're inextricably linked to the original story), bad things start happening. A priest gets food poisoning and dies in a car wreck, a bunch of people get stabbed, and all sorts of other awful things happen before they realize Chucky is the one behind the killings and they try to take him out. In a stupid twist we see that Jennifer Tilly is the person who is mailing the package to people around the world so Chucky can get revenge. Don Mancini wrote the original 'Child's Play', and he deserves serious recognition for such an awesome movie, but he should not be directing. Since his only directing credits are for 'Seed of Chucky' and 'Curse of Chucky', and he is in talks for making a seventh Chucky film as well as a possible Freddy Vs. Chucky film, my only hope is someone else will take charge of those projects and he can stay on the sidelines. Only time will tell, but I'd be willing to bet that if he directs them, they'll be terrible.
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