SCORETOBER DAY 2!! CHILD'S PLAY 2!!!!

Day 2 Childs Play 2

Don’t fuck with the chuck!

Actually that’s a line from Child’s Play 3, but I still love it. Even if that movie is itself something mostly worth forgetting. Mostly.

What isn’t however. Was the sequel to the original Child’s Play. It was a surprise horror hit and they went hard with a sequel. Picking up almost directly after the first in fact.

But wait you say. Why would you pick a sequel soundtrack over the original? Are you high?!

No, no smoking joints for this man, and I’ve cut back on the drinking actually. Somewhat. Mostly. Anyway.

Yes I pick the sequel over the original because, as we will find later on with this list during the month. There are some films that start off with a truly memorable theme and soundtrack. Say for instance the first Halloween movie. Classic soundtrack, everyone knows it. However. The sequel? Improved on the original soundtrack. And part 3? While completely different than the previous Halloween films and having absolutely nothing what so ever to do with anyone from the first two. It’s film score also was rather well done and for some of us surpasses the original.

Child’s Play 2 is one of those cases.

It also sits in the rare horror society of being a more than worthwhile sequel to the original. As I previously had reviewed it along with the first film for just that alone.  So does that mean I’ll skimp on play by play review? Oh hell no! This ain’t no cut and paste shit! We don’t get an assignment, the copy the first three paragraphs from the Wiki. If I gotta spend 2 hours watching this for the thousandth time? Buckle in and get ready for a thousand and twenty second viewing.

This is also a key film from my childhood. It was one of those rare instances the family decided we’d go see it in Theaters. Which is also why it holds a special place in my  life. My dad was very squeamish when It came to horror and blood n’guts films. So it was indeed a rarity.

So lets get on with the show and get down to the doll murders that fuel childhood nightmares!

As I said this film picks up almost directly after the first film. In what honestly has to be one of the creepiest and coolest call backs to the original, and opening to a film. We have a large limo taking off who knows where while someone, a team of someones are working on the burnt remains of the original Chucky doll skull.

It’s like a perverse autopsy almost in how clinical it is. But also realistically why?

Why in the name of holy blessed farts from an angels ass, would you salvage, clean. Restore and reuse the skull of a doll that was reported to be possessed by the soul of a notorious murderer, who killed numerous other people while trapped inside the doll.

I mean obviously today sure, someone would buy it. At top dollar. But I digress.

It’s grossly cool and oddly beautiful. Which immediately draws me in. I love things you can look at and recognize as being grotesque and hideous but still call beautiful. Maybe this film is why I enjoyed burning my sisters barbies and melting their faces. Or that’s something to discuss with a professional someday.

At any rate we are greeted to both the autopsy of one Chucky doll, leading us then into his rebirth and refitting as a brand new Good Guy doll. The charred flesh and scrapped away. The skull polished. New eyes and latex rubber skin applied. Freckles painted on and his jumpsuit buttoned up. It’s an almost literal phoenix rising from the ashes scene. Just a murderous phoenix.

We also learn during this time that Andy Barkley the boy who survived was placed in an orphanage. But what of his mother you say? She survived no?

Absolutely she survived! They didn’t kill her off! That’d be cruel.

Instead she was committed to a mental hospital and is under psychiatric care.

This why Andy was sent off.

Poor kid, part of me honestly had hoped the mom would end up with the police detective and they’d end up a full combat unit taking on Chucky. But alas we instead are given the Disposable family.

But what of Chucky and the whole beginning? Well Chucky was brought back to the manufacturing building so they could reconstruct him apparently to. Check for defaults? Which is hard to imagine given the extensive damage from being, well you know. Set on fire and melted. But also that raises other concerns too. Like the fact he was turning human and bled so, it really would’ve been an autopsy versus a doll reconstruction.

Any-way….

They find nothing inherently wrong with the doll, so who cares.

Until a bolt of lightning, or god, intervenes and wham bam thank you ma’am, a factory employee is killed and Chucky like Frankenstein is brought back to us through electricity.

Even bringing his ass back to life, someone gets murdered. He’s ahead of his own game.

Well now that they have another dead body to deal with, the president of the toy company wants to keep this hushed and covered up, otherwise they’ll be looking at lawsuits for days. So what do they do with reconstructed, reactivated and ready for murder Chucky?

The boss tells his number 1 guy to shove the doll up his ass for all he cares. So he packs Chucky up in his car and stops to pick up some vasaline on the way home to his alcoholic lady friend.

We know the alcohol part is at least true because we hear him on the phone telling his girly friend “Yeah I know what alcohol does to you”, so naturally he picks some up at the local corner store.

Well Chucky has no time for this. He has a schedule to keep and a score to settle with Andy. So he kills this poor slob thus freeing him from his obligation of shoving chucky up his ass, and freeing him of his pathetic soul crushing life and job.

Score one for the Chuck.

As for Andy. Well he’s being adopted by, as I mentioned earlier. The Disposables. A family who’s only purpose is to simply exist for our enjoyment of later seeing them disposed of. Well all of them except for their adopted teen daughter. She’s cool. But the mom and dad are just waiting for death to come knocking.

I don’t usually look forward to innocent people dying, even when I know their characters are only their for it. But it does make me laugh and look forward to it when one of the parents is a great character actor and the single greatest musician the world has ever known produced by Swan. Of course I am talking about Gerrit Graham, who I will always know as the beloved manly “Beef” from Phantom of the Paradise. He also was in other greats in horror such as Chopping Mall, Terrorvision, Tales from the Crypt, and  C.H.U.D. 2 as Bud the Chud.

He's a national treasure in our hearts, and the man lives to die in his roles. So needless to say, his death shall be wonderful when we get to it.

As for now though, we have Andy making himself at home and letting his new family know just what they’re in store for with him. PTSD, Trauma, and a fear of Good Guy Dolls. Which honestly you can’t blame the kid for. I mean hell I had a nightmare as a kid of my “My pet monster” doll breaking loose and trying to chase me down that scared the crap out of me. So I can get Andy being slightly traumatized by a doll trying to steal his body and nearly murdering his family. It kind of puts a damper on your childhood.

Andy and his introduction to the family is one of my favorite bits in the film as it sets up so much so quickly and pays off incredibly well. On the one hand. We have Andy meeting his new parents and step sis. He’s off to a rough start and while exploring the house and its surroundings he happens across a beautiful porcelain statue which he immediately moves to grab hold of, only to be immediately stopped as the parents inform him it’s a priceless family item belonging to his wife as the last gift she had from her mother. Its precious. He means the world to her, and he isn’t allowed to touch it.

So naturally it will be left alone the rest of the movie. While Andy is off with his new family, Chucky calls the orphanage asking if Andy is there. The lady heading the orphanage tells him no he doesn’t live there anymore. When asked who’s calling he tells her its his uncle Charles looking for him.

Things like that I love.

Chucky just screwing with people, being how he is. Which is another thing we get in this movie. They amped up the comedy with the gore this time around. It eventually happens in horror franchises thanks to the rebranding that helped save Nightmare on Elm Street with Dream Warriors and fun Freddy. It’s not a bad thing. It’s a fun thing. Until later in the series when it goes full camp.

But for now we enjoy it!

Chucky eventually makes it to Andy’s new home naturally. It’s also where he meets his entrance into the family and Andy.

To make Andy feel welcome the family had a huge chest of toys waiting for him, Even his closet was full! Apparently this family enjoyed adopting kids and hanging onto their toys.

One of these toys just so happens to be a Good Guy doll. Which he immediately gets a fun PTSD moment out of and we have to wonder one of two things.

Either this family is fucked up and enjoys triggering troubled kids for their own enjoyment.

Or tough love is the cure for PTSD and trauma. Believe me I was raised in the time where “Suck it up” and “Well stop being depressed” were considered medical treatments for fun mental illnesses.

Well at any rate Andy Is not cool with this doll and lets it be known that Tommy the Good Guy doll, is no friend till the end for him.

He is however a friend for Chucky. Who late at night finds Tommy by the stairway and startles Chucky when he speaks up “Hi, I’m Tommy! I like to be hugged”. So Chucky does the most unpredictable of horrific comically timed things. He grabs the precious statue the mother AND father told Andy never not ever to touch because it means the world and back to the mom. Chucky gleefully tells Tommy to “Hug this!” and demolishes both the dolls face and the toy, as happily as Chucky can.

Honestly good for him, at least he enjoys what he does.

So Chucky has to play toy doll so he can get to Andy. It’s one of my favorite bits in the film because Chucky is going all out with it and well. It’s just amazing. After destroying Tommy he buries the doll in the backyard. Gotta hide the evidence somehow right?

So the next day of course the parents are upset. SOMEONE destroyed their precious figurine! And it obviously is one of these parentless heathens.

But naturally they both tell the truth and say hey don’t look at us, we were framed!

This causes the parents to, immediately the day after picking this freakin kid up. To discuss if they should return him or not. Lady this isn’t a Best Buy! There’s no child return lane!

Well actually there is but anywho.

Andy hears this and is immediately bummed out. I don’t blame him. He’s had a rough go at life. Hell he even takes a puff off the older sisters cig while she’s doing laundry. Which she grumbles at him for and Andy is just like “Look I need this alright! Flavor country is the only country that’ll have me so lay off you flat ass!”

Actually unfortunately he doesn’t, but he should have. Instead it’s a rare moment of a kid smoking on screen, take a pic and move on.

This all leads us to one of the moments that keeps me loving this film. Andy passes Chucky in the hall assuming its Tommy and says “I hate you”, Chucky pretending to be an actual Good Guy doll activates and turns to Andy ready to spit out his repeating dialog, “Hi I’m…..Tommy, wanna play?” It’s funny as hell because Chucky forgot Tommy’s name and not only needs a moment to remember it, but looks off to the side comically as he does so then acts like it’s perfectly normal.

WELL ANDY AINT BUYIN IT!

This kid learned from the last time!

So he picks up the doll, flips him over and immediately checks to make sure either the doll has batteries, or possibly if it was a sex doll some other adopted person made. Thankfully it’s the first one with the batteries.

Andy discovers there are batteries in the doll and figures okay. Tommy is Tommy, Chucky is dead. Lets address these shitty Karen and Daren parents. So he takes ‘Tommy’ and makes a point of passing the parents while holding the doll and heading out to play. Instantly all the worry these two adults had and consideration they put into buying a new OLED 8k kid are dashed aside. The little traumatic bastard is cool with dolls they say! Hurrah!

So Andy and big sister Kyle are hanging out outside. Andy is playing on the swing, contemplating his life and how he can bum another ticket to flavor town off his now older step sis. Until she walks over and extorts the swing from Andy. It’s actually kind of cute and she’s doing her best to make him feel less like an outsider. And Andy wants to be cool with her as well so the two begin innocently playing. Pushing her on the swing. It’s cute. But not for Chucky.

It's another fun moment as we the audience know the ground Kyle is kicking at with her feet on the swing, is the shallow grave where Chucky buried Tommy. Chucky watches with wide eyes hoping they don’t accidentally uncover his toy victim.  Of course we can’t have that reveal just yet, so Chucky is safe.

But this movie is not done fucking with this kid. It’s time to ramp things up. It is a sequel after all.

Later that night Chucky decides it’s time for action. Waiting is for losers!

So As Andy drifts off to bed and thinks about life and his new family. Unfortunately he wakes up feeling like he can’t move because. Well he can’t. Chucky has taken jump ropes and ties Andy to the bed. Which raises some concerns.

Not for Andy but Chucky. See Chucky still wants to play ‘Hide the soul’, he wants to transfer himself into Andy’s body so he can be human again. So if Chucky were successful. He’s going to wake up in his body, tied to the bed. This might hinder his plans, and it’d make for an interesting event to explain to the parents when they find Andy/Chucky tied to the bed.

Well that exact scenario almost plays out just like that fortunately enough. Andy wakes in terror to Chucky on top of him, tied to his bed unable to stop the evil doll from performing his ritual. But thank god for older step sisters with loose morals as Kyle shakes the bushes outside while attempting to sneak back into the house unnoticed.

Chucky threatens Andy telling him they’ll be doing this again real soon, Kyle climbs through the window appropriately asking Andy for a reasonably priced explanation for what the hell is going on. As she frees Andy he delivers the mightiest of punches to Chucky sending him sailing to the floor.

Well the whole house is disturbed from their slumber now and Papa Disposable is the first one in demanding also a reasonably priced explanation as to why these kids ruined his dream time. Andy blames Chucky. Kyle blames no one, and the parents determine Kyle tied Andy to the bed because he likely saw her leave the house and didn’t want Andy to rat her out.

Andy knows. Okay? Andy knows that snitches get stitches, he’d never turn rat on a fellow orphan. But this is what the family believes. So it shall be believed by all.

And the dad wants to make damn sure no one further interrupts the one moment of joy and peace he finds in that household, so he picks up Chucky and tosses him down the stairs of their basement and slams the door shut. Figuring this will shut up Andy and everyone can go back to not being insane shit heads talking about killer dolls. Sounds about right.

So the next day begins. Everyone is rested, Andy is back in the jungles of hell that are his life of fearing a doll possessing his body. So naturally its time for school.

Andy as the new kid, naturally has no friends. And instantly meets a little piece of shit who decides Andy Is worth messing with. Seriously this little fucker for no reason, as Andy Is boarding the school bus and walking by, Just reaches out and shoves Andy. Then later at school, this same pickled shit continues to screw with Andy at his desk. Immediately landing Andy in trouble with the teacher. Because she’s a bit of a hard ass and wants to force the kids to love her instead of listen to them when they say they’re being bullied.

I’d say it was a different time but no.

So Andy finds himself alone again in a world that out to get him, wishing even more that he could light up a stick of flavorful tobacco and go riding into flavor country to forget about the shitheads of the world trying to bring him down. He contemplates this at recess while everyone plays.

Meanwhile in the classroom Chucky decides Andy needs to stay after school. So he finds Andy’s work assignment he turned in for the day and leaves a love not for the teacher that simply says “Fuck You Bitch!”

It’s a classic, and I love it. Especially for the fun that its setting up, and the nightmare fuel of my childhood.

The teacher upon seeing this immediately is upset and rightfully so. Poor Andy is made to stay after school at his desk with his head down while she locks him in the classroom and leaves for a much needed piss.

Leaving Andy and Chucky alone with each other. THANKFULLY though the teacher had the forethought to lock Chucky in the closet so Andy couldn’t play with him.

Now, even if you hadn’t seen the movie. You know what its setting up. You know its coming.

Andy walks over slowly to the closet door, thankfully its one of those old skeleton key closet doors and Andy can peak through the door into the closet. Only to be greeted by the eye of Chucky who gleefully greets him with “Peekaboo!” Rightly scaring the crap out of Andy, and me as a kid. No I wasn’t scared! That’s coming up though. Instead I was laughing my ass off as we all should because, while Andy is scrambling to find his sanity and a way out of a locked room, with a serial killer doll locked in the closet in the same room. Chucky is pleading his case to Andy for Freedom.

“Let me out Andy! Please? I promise I wont kill anyone else, just let me out, okay?”, I mean it makes for a compelling argument. If you just forget the whole he wants to slide his soul into Andy’s body thing.

But Andy is noping out of that situation hard and climbs to freedom out the window.

Unfortunately now is where the fun begins. For some of us. Just not his teacher Miss Kettlewell. Who returns to the classroom, ticked off to find Andy is gone and hearing the closet door rattling. Which brings out a rather confusing moment.

She knows she locked the closet door and threw the doll inside there.

She knows Andy was left at his desk when she even locked the door to the classroom.

How in the name of great ceasers toast, did Andy lock himself in the closet? Is he proto-Chris Angel? Is he going to freak her mind?!

Well yes her mind will be freaked, just not by Andy any time soon. Thankfully.

So yes, she assumes Andy is locked in the closet and she opens the door only to find. Well the closet room empty of any child. So she has to begin checking the coats and such looking for Andy.

Whom she not surprisingly doesn’t find. What she does find though, is a bike wheel air pump stabbed into her chest and pumped with air as Chucky attacks.

No, that scene did not scare me as a kid. What did is the following scene after.

As the teacher tries to come to grips with the reality of being stabbed, her world is rocked even further as she is greeted to the site of a doll, menacingly walking toward her with a yard stick in his hand, She’s scared shitless, even as Chucky jokes with her about being very naughty. He raises the yard stick up and begins a Hitchcockian like murder of beating her with the yard stick. It’s one of the better and more memorable kills because we don’t see the gore of the body. Just the rising and falling of the yard stick. Which each time it comes up laced in blood, all while the camera quick cuts further, and further, and further back until al we see is the school room window, and the yard stick being lifted and thrust back down. It’s really artsy and beautifully done.

But yes, Seeing chucky walk awkwardly toward the teacher, menacingly with the yard stick. That fucked me up as a kid, as creepy as it looked.

Its honestly now a really cool shot, but yeah, for a young Dondon, it was a little much. Which is funny considering I was cool with cenobites by that point and Zombies taring soldiers apart as they screamed at them to choke on his guts.

Kudos to whoever gets that reference.

So back at the happy household, Andy is getting a lecture about misbehaving at school. He tries to course correct the parents and tell them once again Chucky did it. But the dad isn’t buying it. He knows he threw Chucky down the stairs and into the basement.

He’s so sure of that in fact he has to drag Andy to the basement door to open it and show him. Which sure enough. There’s chucky, back at the bottom of the stairs, left nearly as he was the previous night. Making Andy out again to be the liar and a damaged kid. So off they all go to sleep, no word yet at all about Andy’s teacher being murdered as well. Or no one cares because she was a biiiiiiiiiiiitch.

But while the new mom watches TV, and dad searches for his receipt to return Andy again. Andy is headed out on a stealth mission to find a weapon to defend himself and take out Chucky solo. He’s given up on finding a group and he’s gonna try 1v1.

So he heads off into the basement and begins to hunt for Chucky. But Chucky naturally had time to prepare for this so he gets the upper hand on Andy. But to his credit, Andy does put up a heck of a fight and manages to fight Chucky off. But not without disturbing Daddy Disposable, our national treasure.

So dad leaves the comfort of his bedroom and abandons the search for Andy’s return receipt and heads out to the basement. Where he not surprisingly finds Andy wielding an electric carving knife. Which I mean honestly? That moment was only a matter of time.

Maybe.

So the dad immediately takes the worried adult approach of tying to tell the child with a knife to. Well. Put down the knife. Andy is trying to get him to understand the knife isn’t meant for him. It’s meant for Chucky. But he won’t hear it.

Which sadly means he’s the first of the Disposables family to die, as Chucky hooks his leg with a pool pole and Phil the dad is left hanging upside down. Now face to face with Chucky who can’t resist the moment to say, “Hey Phil, how’s it hangin.” Moments before killing him. At least Chucky enjoys what he does, and tries sending people off with a laugh.

Unfortunately though as the dad is now gone from this realm. The mother comes to check on the situation. Only to find Andy with a carving knife and her husband dead.

She does the smart thing and calls the orphanage and an ambulance. But not the police?

Apparently the possibility Andy is a murderer is not so worrying as one would imagine, and the orphanage is taking him back to put him in another family, while the meat wagon loads up Phil and heads off to the local McDonalds.

What will become of Andy? Who can say. He’s headed back to orphan town while the older adopted sister is chilling out helping the mom pack her things.

But….

Step sis is getting curious. Because Andy seems like a decent enough kid. How could he be murderous right? She debates this while swinging idly and lighting up a flavorful stick of processed tobacco and dragging her feet in the dirt under the swing. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. She uncovers the beat up doll of Tommy! Which, just to make sure she isn’t losing her mind. She has to go investigate the trashcan where they disposed of the doll thought to be Tommy. Only to discover….wait for it….The doll formerly known as Tommy is gone!.

Egads! Andy was right! Sweet hairy mustache! Disposable dad was killed by a murderous doll! Not a troubled traumatic PTSD child!

Obviously she wishes to share this great discovery with Mother Disposable. Only she’ll end up having a one way conversation unfortunately as Chucky has disposed of, well you get it.

Farewell to the family. Their purpose is served.

So where does this leave Kyle? Aside back on the adoption auction block. It leaves her alone with Chucky. Who for the time being needs her, as he can’t drive himself sadly. He needs her to drive him to the orphanage and reunite with Andy.

It’s honestly a fun car ride, and I would normally spoil it but honestly if you hadn’t seen it in forever, or…well. Ever. See it. Kyle and Chucky have a nice back and forth together and play off each other well.

But we are rushing into our final act and it’s gonna be epic. The duo of Chucky and Kyle make it to the Orphanage and reunite with Andy, Much to the disapproval of the orphanages head lady. But thankfully for her Chucky has things under control and he quickly takes her out. Leading to another favorite moment of mine when Chucky manages to get himself and Andy alone in a room and Andy freaks out having discovered the body of Grace, Chucky see’s his reaction, turns to the body then back to Andy and says “What’s the matter with you? You act like you’ve never seen a dead body before!” I mean, he’s right. Chucky seriously is a fun loveable asshole. When not murdering everything and everyone around him.

But Chucky is bound and determined to get himself a body and nothing is going to stop him if he can help it. So he heads for the worst…best. Possible fight stage. The Good Guys factory.

So here we reach our final act.

Kyle is moving her ass in top gear for the doll factory and Chucky is already beginning the ceremony. He’s had enough of all of this crap. He’s done being a doll, he’s done being melted rubber and bleeding.

He actually gets to go through with his ceremony. Which good for him really. He’s tried so hard over two films. He deserves a win. Only it’s not a win. He’s unfortunately too late and missed his window. He spent too much time in the doll body so. He’s stuck. Which I can see being upset about. And at the same time I mean. It is a pretty good window of opportunity for him as a murderous rampaging entity.

Naturally as this takes place in the doll factory, there is a distinct reason for this. It’s a goddamn horror show of a place. Everything is purposely made oversized and spoopy. The assembly line is a parade of different possible horrific deaths. Gates open and close at a moments notice to slam down and threaten killing our heroes and villain.

It’s also a nice excuse for the director to do some old Batman tv show style dutch angle shots which really help. I mean hell the whole movie was filmed in such a way that things looked like giant toy boxes versus homes. It really is like a living nightmare.

Speaking of we get introduced in this sequen to a few horrific things my childlike brain had to process. Like Chucky getting a gate door slammed down on his wrist. Forcing him to tare his own hand off.

Really at the heart of this movie Chucky is tortured a lot. It’s almost comically sad what he goes through. But I mean yeah he deserves it.

So we get to see Chucky rip free his bloody stump of a wrist, and as he doesn’t want to have any kind of handicap in his final fight. He takes his trusty knife and with the aid of a hammer and vice. Crushes the handle and. Jabs his stump into the tang of the blade. Allowing him to tape his sleeve around the blade and creating a knife hand for himself.

Yes that was at the time a bit much for me to take in as I’d never seen that before.

But it was nothing compared to another dose of pure nightmare fuel.

The conveyer belt nightmare doll eye machine.

This is a well set up, purposely in your face setup machine you know someone will die on and from. And die some poor guy does. As the conveyer belt gets jammed with dolls a maintenance man is forced to enter the factory floor and fix it. Unluckily for him Chucky decides to test out his new knife hand on the guy. Only managing to cut his cheek. But its enough to begin what would haunt me for a long while.

The man is knocked onto his back. The now fixed conveyer belt pulls him upward into position. Directly under the unholy machine who’s sole purpose is to inject forcefully the eyes into the dolls heads. And this guy gets two doll eyes forced through his own eyes. Leaving us with a truly creepy visage of a man with wide comical like eyes. But the film couldn’t just stop there oh no. Some asshole editor decided lets let the shot linger and show the conveyer move his body further up and hear the machine ready another set of eyes. Which with body alignment? Means this guy is about to get doll eyes punctured through the dick. Which thankfully is when the camera cuts away but. We know.

WE. KNOW!!

Fuck you film.

But the movie is not done creating nightmares just yet. Oh no. We have the second best and most what the fuck factory would ever need this in any form of reality.

While looking for a way out, Kyle and Andy come across a machine that leads the doll bodies up to a closed box. Once the doors close on this box, multiple arms and gears move and plant the arms and hair onto the doll. Somehow.

However. As they find out when Andy accidentally hits the reverse button. When a doll enters the machine after already having completed this stage. It melts and deforms the doll into a multilimbed nightmare creature of steaming melted plastic. Neat.

Chucky also thinks this is neat, as he passes behind our heroes and spooks them. Which granted. That’s a good idea for a spook scare. But not so much if it doesn’t work in your favor. Which it does not, as Kyle knocks Chucky back and he soon finds his groin assaulted by a machine that punctures plastic little tags stapling him essentially to the board on the conveyer. Giving Andy and Kyle the perfect idea. Sending Chucky through that unholy machine in reverse.

Chucky is a funny bastard. He begins pleading for his life with Andy. Telling the both of them he’s really sorry. It was just a joke, killing everyone and their adopted parents. He wants forgiveness. But Kyle answers for both of them and flips Chucky off. Sending him into a fit of rage moments before the doors close around him and we hear the pained screams of Chucky being mutilated.

Or….WAS he?!

Unfortunately for Chucky no, and our heroes. No. No he wasn’t entirely mutilated.

As the machine finishes and they press the button to recall the wood board Chucky was on. They find a melted mess of Chucky legs, arms. Stapled doll hair and blood.

But its not over yet. Chucky was mutilated. But more a self preservation mutilation. He cut off his own legs to escape. Which says a hell of a lot about the guy. He uses a pully system to knock out the big threat Kyle, and comically begins wheeling himself toward Andy on a board with wheels. Using his knife free hand to pull himself along the floor. Telling Andy how he’s going to cut off Andy’s legs too so he knows what it feels like.

Andy however is done with this shit. Even as he’s terrified and backed into a corner. He hears a hiss. Looking over he recognizes what that hiss was. Its molten rubber dripping out from a spout to the floor. Chucky notices this too, and seeing the look Andy gives him of “This is a game changer mother trucker!”, Chucky immediately gasp in shock and Andy lets loose the most toxic, powerful and extremely deadly hot stream of melted rubber the world has ever witnessed. Dowsing poor Chucky and melting his body. Well. What remains of his body into a horrific bald mess.

But Andy’s work isn’t done just yet. No. He has to rescue Kyle before her head gets lopped off by another cartoonish horror show of a door on another contraption. Which he manages. Good for you Andy.

He proudly shows off to the older teenage girl his victory kill and she is impressed.

Until Chucky leaps up and begins attacking her even when melted. The best way to describe Chucky at this stage? Is the melting toxic chemical man in Robocop. He genuinely looks like him.

Andy quickly thinking on his feet looks over and notices a cut tube from earlier spitting out air. They grab the tube and jam it into Chucky’s melted mouth. The melted rubber begins to seal and now. Now the film gets to pay homage to the greatest underrated John Carpenter classic Big Trouble in Little China. Chucky begins to comically balloon up and fill with air. To the point he really does look like the man who got so mad in Big Trouble in little China that his head expanded and eventually exploded. Which by no coincidence or surprise. Happens to poor Chucky.

His head explodes. The doll is no more, and Andy walks out of the factory nightmare with big step sister Kyle as they idly talk about what they’ll do now. Which is a great question as they have no parents. Their adopted family was murdered. The head of their orphanage was murdered. Andy is wanted for questioning in connection to his teachers murder. I mean there is a lot left to be answered here and these two are the only suspects left to do so.

But alas, as I always say when I clog the toilet at Walmart, that’s somebody elses problem.

The End.

This movie amped up everything it should have to make it a great follow up to the original and we are blessed for it having done so. We got more kills. Creative kills. More dark humor. Gore, and enough nightmare fuel to effect hundreds of thousands of childhoods. The movie was shot beautifully and I do mean it when I said the houses look like large toys, and its on purpose. Like we are children seeing an adult world and nightmare dreamscape in the same sequence. It’s really cool stuff and I dig it.

Chucky is always a crowd pleaser and part 2 remains to this day one of my favorite sequels they did. Part 3 was alright.

I mean it…

It was. All. Right.

But it was still. Nevermind. It was ‘all right’

After that though the films just became parody and embraced the comic nature. Which is both fun and bad as it became less a Childs play film, and became Chucky films. Which remains to be seen and debated by fans if it was a good thing, or bad.

Much like people debate scary Freddy vs wisecracking Freddy.

But overall it’s a great film, a fun time you can’t help but laugh through and leave enjoying. Even if it has a sudden ending as well. Much like the Fly. Check it out again and again by all means, but for now…the music.

The Score.

This stuck with me because the creepy well used toy theme music. It’s just done so appropriately well. You have the kids piano keys playing out a little melody that even if innocent comes off menacingly and damn near like the theme to Jaws. It’s a few notes repeated and scaled up then back down. It’s what you’d hear in a music box. But somehow with the reverb and delay it just sounds like something if you heard in a room while alone. You’d know your ass is fucked and you need to get right with god.

That’s the kind of music I love. When you can create a unique theme that doubles as an ear worm that will stay with you long after, that manages to be simple, catchy and menacing. It’s the most you could hope for. Considering the first films score. Which was more dramatic and like a traditional horror film in some ways. This was just elevated itself to the level of creepy clown.

Where the first films score was about dread and suspense. This one is exactly fitting of its poster. Like a jack in the box that has you waiting for the jump scare with each turn of the crank.

Even when it’s not using the child like music, the other themes behind it are incredibly fun. The transition in theme during the opening credits and reverse autopsy of chucky. It’s drawn out and serves as a well composed narration for the events happening both on screen as it sets up the story, as well as the callbacks it gives from the original.

I mean again sort of like with the Fly. The opening Main Title theme “The Limousine” is a beautifully orchestrated piece from Graeme Revell. It starts off with a thunderous clash and from there draws you into a tragic melody that will be used throughout the film and both on child instruments and full orchestral.

It all carries a very fairy tale like vibe and feel through the whole score. Which adds to the way the film was shot and composed. The cartoonish style and over acting of some of the victims and scenes. It goes over the top at points, then centers itself back into classic dread of the time. Which is to say big clashes and violins. It was a style back then of 80’s horror into the early 90’s. Before that music took a back seat to music that sounded damn near television show quality. In a horrible way.

Honestly one of my favorite scenes in the film when I first saw it was Chucky stalking inside the house. It had a nightmare like tone to it but also a very real threat and stalking (appropriately) tone. Listening years later to the actual soundtrack on vinyl. It’s creepy as hell! Seriously give it a listen on Youtube or better yet buy it and listen to the track “Stalking the House” creepy stuff man, but so well done.

The repeating theme from the beginning which plays through many tracks right up to the end, is even somehow worse when not played on a toy piano. It adds a deep vibe of creeping terror during the school scene, just before the yard stick murdering happens.

The whole thing stuck with me because as a kid I KNEW those instruments they played to create the theme. I HAD some of those toy instruments still back then damnit! It kind of fucks with you when your used to grand orchestral music in movies on big loud instruments being exchanged instead for something that comes off like your fucked up cousin taking your Xylophone and playing a creepy ass tune on it. Which will entertain you while also making you wanna shit yourself.

Or just entertain you to the point you replicate it and creep out everyone else.

I love it. Just fucking love it man.

It’s such a perfect score, note for note. Beat by beat, it just never relents. Even when its calm its still giving you that sense of something could still happen. Which makes for a great horror score in my opinion, and perfectly matches the tone of the film in this case. Magical, nightmarish. Fairy tale murder.

So please yes. DO check out the movie, pick up or download the score and have fun creeping someone out with it. I loved revisiting this one and I really do love the vinyl so so very much. It was the first time the soundtrack had been released which made me even happier because I never forgot it, I loved hearing it in the movie. And now I can pop my headphones on and listen to the whole damn beautiful thing.

Enjoy people, and until tomorrow.

Don’t play with dolls possessed by serial killers. Unless your into that sorta thing.