Child's Play
Child's Play is a 1988 American slasher film directed by Tom Holland, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Don Mancini and John Lafia based on a story by Mancini. The film stars Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon with Brad Dourif as Chucky. Its plot follows a widowed mother who gives a new doll to her son, unaware that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Plot
Detective Mike Norris chases fugitive serial killer Charles Lee Ray through the streets of Chicago and into a toy store. Meanwhile, Ray's accomplice, Eddie Caputo, flees the scene. Shot by Norris and dying, Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul into a nearby Good Guy-brand talking doll. The store is struck by lightning, causing an explosion. Shortly thereafter, Norris finds Ray's lifeless body next to the doll.
More details
| author | Don Mancini John Lafia Tom Holland |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Tom Holland |
| editor | Edward Warschilka Roy E. Peterson |
| events | body swap |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | abandon andy andy barclay attack bad neighborhood best friend bleed charles lee ray chucky crime scene electroconvulsive therapy electroshock therapy gas explosion good guy haitian vodou hide out kill lightning move peddler psychiatric hospital skid row speak strike talk toy store train ride traumatize true identity voodoo chant voodoo doll |
| musicBy | Joe Renzetti |
| producer | David Kirschner |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films United Artists |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | Chicago |
| theme | independent serial killer slasher |