It has been one hell of a Halloween season if you are a horror fan!
This has been the season of great releases and return of many of the genre icons.
This year alone we have seen the theatrical return of Leatherface as well as Jigsaw and Pennywise the Clown. Now what many of you may realize is that we have been treated to the final appearance of the Tall Man, a reboot of King Kong, and a surprise return of Victor Crowley. Not to mention the announcement that next year we will see the return of The Shape himself Michael Myers facing off yet again against Jamie Lee Curtis with John Carpenter at the helm.
While I will speak more about this at a later date I am here to speak about the return of another genre favorite. None other than our deranged killer doll Chucky.
Featuring a BluRay release as well as being streamed on Netflix we saw the low profile release of Cult of Chucky with once again Brad Douriff providing the voice of the titular villain.
Picking up almost where Curse of Chucky‘ post credit sequence left off, we are once again introduced to Andy Barkley who has acquired the head of Chucky…Now this is where it gets weird.
When we last saw Nica Pierce in Curse she had been institutionalized after being accused of the murders. Well Kiddies while she is in this place Chucky soon arrives looking to torment her…Okay there are multiple Chuckys here.
Now this twist is in fact a welcome addition to the series as it maintains the original humor but avoids the cheesiness of some of the later sequels.There are many humourous scenes where Chucky laments about the crazy people in the asylum and the addition of Andy and Tiffany is a nice touch. Not to mention that there are plenty of new scares for the gore fans out there.
All in all Cult is a welcome edition to the long running franchise that has not turned to the remake direction and even maintains it’s cast with Alex Vincent, Jennifer Tilly, as well as Brad and Fiona Douroff reprising their roles.
Fans of the Franchise will enjoy the flick.
6 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
5 Chuckys
1 Tiffany
Throat Slashing
Wrist slashing
Disembowling
Breast chewing
Voodoo Fu
Doll Fu
3 ½ stars
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