Child's Play (Wednesday May 23rd Post)

What Did I Watch? Child's Play

When Did I Watch It? Friday May 18, 2012

Where? Home
Tagline? Many! 
"Andy Barclay has a new playmate who's in no mood to play."
"This Doll Is Killer."
"Chucky is one mean S.O.B."
"Something's moved in with the Barclay family, and so has terror."

I decided to pick Child's Play as my second movie post for this week's (I Love The 80s) themed movie. Why? I picked Child's Play because I think It may have been one of the first Horror Genre films that I ever watched in my movie-filled life. When did I first see it? Years ago, at least 10 I would say. I remember why I wanted to see it, the front cover really looked interesting to me (Included stock photo of VHS Cover below....), and the premise seemed promising as well, a killer doll, How Cool! I remember pulling it out of the plasticky yellow VHS dump bin at our local Meijer Grocery Store, it was $5.99 and brand new. My allowance at the time was $5, but my mom let me go over (she usually did :) ) since I wanted it so much. 

I remember watching it then like it was yesterday.... I had a bowl of popcorn and a can of pop and I popped in the movie and I wasn't disappointed, and 10 years later, I still love the movie.  So, what's so good about the movie? First off, I love movies that are filled with great music moments, this movie has some eerily great theatrical music, brassy tones and high pitches that are just fantastic. 

The movie starts out with a cop and an assailant named Charles Lee Ray in a shoot out. The cop ends up shooting the assailant in the chest and he runs into a toy store to preform some sort of voodoo on a doll. Clouds roll over the toy store and the store eventually explodes with lightning striking the building with the assailant dead inside. 

We then see a new morning and a little boy named Andy (Alex Vincent, Child's Play & Child's Play 2) waking his mother (Catherine Hicks, 7th Heaven) up at 6:30 AM and bringing her breakfast in bed--pretty crappy breakfast in bed (Burnt to a crisp toast with glob's of butter, over-sweetened (3 spoons of sugar) cereal, with too much milk, and a spilled cup of juice) but at least the 6-year-old boy tries, we have to give him that. He wakes his mother up so early because he NEEDS to open his presents. After seeing a commercial for "Good Guy" Dolls, he is hoping that the long wrapped present on the sofa is his very own. He opens the large box first, and is saddened to see clothing, which his mother says "You really needed clothes," he opens the smaller gift to find a "Good Guys" Tool Kit, which his mother asks if he likes it and he exclaims, "I wanted a Good Guy doll!" She explains to him that she found out too late, but she would get one for him soon. Needless to say, she buys him one from a peddler outside her work for just $30, the original retail was $100, she takes it to her son, and has to go back to work but her friend (Dubbed "Aunt Maggie" by Andy) babysits for her. Andy is thrilled with his gift "Chucky". The trouble begins pretty soon after.....

Aunt Maggie (Dinah Manoff) wants Andy to go to bed, Andy is going to but bends down to listen to Chucky, while we don't hear anything, Andy informs his Aunt Maggie that Chucky wants to watch the news. This irks Aunt Maggie off and she sends Andy to brush his teeth, and puts Chucky in Andy's room. Suddenly the TV turns on and Chucky is sitting in front of it. Andy gets blamed and is sent straight to bed with Chucky. Andy stays in bed, but does Chucky? Nope.... That's when it gets real interesting, bodies start piling up and the cops come to a house where a child is convinced that his doll "did it." Of course the cops aren't going to believe that a Doll is a killer, so they are trying to figure out who indeed did it, when the culprit may be the "Good Guy" standing right in front of them. Want to see more??? Rent or buy Child's Play.

Trailer.....