Chucky has returned for another installment in the horror series with the Curse of Chucky. Wanna play? Check out the review after the jump.
Set after the events of Seed of Chucky, Curse of Chucky sees disabled Nica (Fiona Dourif) living at home in a big gothic mansion with overbearing mother Sarah. One day, a package arrives for Sarah and, after opening the large box, it is revealed that someone has sent her a good guy doll. 
Sarah’s body soon turns up and a mourning Nica has her sister, brother in law, niece and niece’s nanny come to stay in the house. From there on in, it’s like every other Child’s Play film, with Chucky trying to kill off all the adults in order to place a curse on the child, so his soul can live inside them instead of the doll.
Curse of Chucky tries hard to be both scary and funny, yet fails on most accounts. The look of the film is great, the colouring is nice and the mansion is a great location, but the film is filled with so many clichés that it becomes a joke of itself. You can guess when the jump scares are coming and, when the film fails in its quest to be scary, it just pumps in some gore in hope that you won’t notice.
The film tries hard to build up suspense too. A good example of this is when the doll places some rat poison in a bowl of chilli. Then, at the dinner table, we are subjected to six people slowly eating their bowl of chilli and we have to guess at who has the poisoned meal. Instead of being in suspence, I was mostly bored.
The remake of Child’s Play was put on hold after Don Mancini decided to make a sixth film in the series in Curse of Chucky. After watching the film, I’d have preferred the remake. Child’s Play has had its day I feel, which is a shame, as the original was a classic 80’s horror film. Sorry Chucky, I don’t wanna play no more.
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