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, and based on a story by Mancini. It is the first film in the Child's Play series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky. It stars Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon with Brad Dourif as Chucky. Its plot follows a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son, unaware that the doll 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 after Ray is abandoned by his accomplice Eddie Caputo. Shot by Norris and dying, Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul to one of the Good Guy-brand talking dolls. The store is struck by lightning and explodes, and Norris finds Ray's lifeless body next to the doll.
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author | Don Mancini John Lafia Tom Holland |
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contentLocation | Chicago |
director | Tom Holland |
editor | Edward Warschilka Roy E. Peterson |
events | body swap |
genre | horror |
keywords | abandon andy andy barclay assault attack best friend charles lee ray chucky doll electroconvulsive therapy electroshock therapy gas explosion good guy haitian vodou kill lightning move psychiatric hospital speak talk talking dolls toy store traumatize true identity voodoo chant voodoo doll |
musicBy | Joe Renzetti |
producer | David Kirschner |
productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films United Artists |
publisher | MGM/UA Communications Co. |
recordedAt | Chicago |
theme | independent serial killer slasher |