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\"\"Cult of Chucky<\/strong> (2017)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence, grisly images, language, brief sexuality, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joseph LoDuca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Marshall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 3, 2017 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Michael Therriault, Brad Dourif (voice), Adam Hurtig, Elisabeth Rosen, Grace Lynn Kung, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Zak Santiago, Ali Tataryn, Jennifer Tilly.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Allow me to whet your appetite with the following scene description. A drugged woman tied to a table directly beneath a skylight and a compressed air tank in the hands of Chucky the killer doll. A head rolls and it isn\u2019t a toy one. It\u2019s one of the most imaginative kill scenes I\u2019ve seen outside the Friday the 13th<\/sup> franchise. To think, it\u2019s perpetrated by a psycho standing only two-and-a-half feet tall. Color me impressed!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Cult of Chucky<\/strong>, the seventh installment in the long-running horror series, is the third best entry in the Chucky saga following the first movie and the super-campy Bride of Chucky. They\u2019re horror movies only in the academic sense. They contain the usual elements of the genre, but they can\u2019t be taken too seriously. The killer is a doll that looks like My Buddy (a toy popular in the 80s), but acts like a homicidal maniac. It probably has to do with it being possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. I haven\u2019t seen a My Buddy in decades, but Chucky\u2019s still around and he\u2019s up to his old tricks again, this time in a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Four years after the events of Curse of Chucky, accused killer Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) appears to be on the road to recovery. That\u2019s what her psychiatrist Dr. Foley (Therriault, Reign) says. He has the wheelchair-bound woman convinced that she\u2019s schizophrenic and Chucky is just a figment of her disturbed mind. He decides she\u2019s well enough to be transferred to a medium-security facility to continue her treatment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It isn\u2019t long before Chucky finds Nica. Actually, it\u2019s Chucky\u2019s girlfriend Tiffany Valentine (Tilly, Bound) who finds her. She comes to visit bearing bad news- her niece Alice, the sole survivor of the previous movie\u2019s massacre, is dead- and a gift, a Chucky doll. He\u2019s not the only one of his kind present in the ward. Foley uses one in his group sessions. This one ends up being adopted by Madeleine (Rosen, House of the Dead) as a surrogate for her deceased baby. This is when Cult of Chucky<\/strong> traverses into Bad Dreams territory. One by one, Nica\u2019s fellow patients die in gruesome ways and they all look like suicides. She knows Chucky is the real culprit, but the real shock is yet to come.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As teased by the post-credits scene in Curse of Chucky, Andy Barclay is back! Played by original Andy player Alex Vincent, he\u2019s now a troubled adult who lives in an isolated cabin. He has the still-living head of the Chucky doll he blasted with a shotgun. He regularly tortures it as punishment for messing up his life. OKAY, WAIT A MINUTE! How can Chucky be at Andy\u2019s and the hospital at the same time? That\u2019s the \u201cshock\u201d I referred to in the preceding paragraph. It seems that Chucky learned a voodoo curse that allows him to inhabit several bodies at once, both doll and human. He has special plans for Nica.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Don Mancini has been involved in the Chucky series from the beginning. He wrote the screenplays for Child\u2019s Play 1, 2 & 3 and Bride. He directed Seed, Curse and Cult of Chucky<\/strong>. Let me tell you, this flick is totally bonkers! He puts an original new spin on the series. I LOVE the concept of multiple Chuckys, the \u201cCult\u201d of the title. I\u2019m interested to see where Mancini takes it from here, just as long as he doesn\u2019t send Chucky into outer space. It didn\u2019t work out so well for other movie slashers as you may recall.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The other cool thing about Cult of Chucky<\/strong> is the finale. It\u2019s a complete bloodbath! The scene I described at the beginning takes place about midway through the movie and it\u2019s great. The killings that follow are also nice and gory. The highlights include a man\u2019s head being stomped to a bloody pulp, another victim is drilled through the back of the head, somebody is stabbed and disemboweled, a security guard\u2019s throat is cut and a woman\u2019s spine is pulled out of her mouth. With all this mess, they should have mentioned the guy that mopped up at the end of each day\u2019s shooting in the closing credits. That reminds me, watch them all the way through (or fast forward, it\u2019s up to you). There\u2019s a nifty surprise at the end. I\u2019ll only say a familiar character returns.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Fiona, daughter of Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif, is a welcome addition to the series. I don\u2019t want to say too much about what happens to her in Cult of Chucky<\/strong> except she doesn\u2019t play the traumatized victim for long. I like the direction the writers take her character in. As for Brad, he\u2019s always great. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. I first noticed him in Dune and came to learn he also played stuttering mama\u2019s boy Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest. He would go on to play The Gemini Killer in the cult favorite The Exorcist III. He\u2019s still awesome more than three decades later. Therriault is also good as the doctor who turns out to be a horny piece of slime. It\u2019s nice to see Alex Vincent back as Andy after all these years. His previous ordeals with Chucky left him a permanently damaged person who can\u2019t even keep a relationship going because his entire life is on-line waiting to be Googled by potential girlfriends. As for Tilly, she\u2019s still FREAKING HOT!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The effects in Cult of Chucky<\/strong> are quite good. I\u2019m pleased to see Mancini went with stop-motion instead of CGI for the Chucky effects. Even better, he doesn\u2019t go with CGI gore. That\u2019s good because Cult of Chucky<\/strong> is the goriest of the Chucky movies. It\u2019s a neat throwback to the 80s and 90s school of horror filmmaking in that respect. Like I said, it\u2019s one of the best of the series. I can\u2019t wait to see what Chucky has in store next.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cult of Chucky (2017)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence, grisly images, language, brief sexuality, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Mancini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joseph LoDuca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Marshall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 3, 2017 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Michael Therriault, Brad Dourif (voice), Adam Hurtig, Elisabeth Rosen, Grace Lynn Kung, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cult-of-Chucky-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}