My Thoughts After Re-Watching Child's Play (1988)
It was our fall bulk pickup week so, after spending a chunk of my evening hauling an old couch and some other furniture, we no longer had room for to the curb, I was tired out enough to not want to do much else. As a result, I wound up re-watching Child's Play for the first time in about a year before calling it a night.
Here are some of my thoughts from that movie:
Why did Chucky (Brad Dourif) stay in the box? To recap, murderer Charles Lee Ray, or "Chucky," is shot by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) inside a toy store and uses a spell to cast his soul into a doll that is later purchased from a homeless guy by Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) for her son, Andy (Alex Vincent).
So, with that mouthful out of the way, why not just break out of the box before the homeless guy even came into the picture? Was there a delay on the spell taking effect or did he have another reason for waiting until he was in a child's possession (other than the plot, of course)?
The police believing Andy was the killer went a step too far. OK, I can maybe agree he'd be a plausible suspect in Maggie's (Dinah Manoff) death. However, the idea he'd skip school just to blow up a guy living in an abandoned house did seem a bit farfetched, even with him in the area. If anything, even if I didn't believe his doll was the killer, I would wonder if he had an adult "friend" who was behind it and forcing him to tell lies.
Why did that abandoned house still have gas running to it? I would think that would be one of the first things that would be turned off after nobody was paying the bill.
Did the school not notice Andy wasn't there? If any of my daughters were more than a few minutes late for class, I'd get a phone call and email about it. Karen, meanwhile, didn't even know her son wasn't at school until the police told her. I hope she transferred him after that.
Someone should do a horror spin-off movie about that psychiatric hospital Andy was sent to. I know it was the 80s but there was no real evidence Andy was violent. Did he really need to be locked up in a ward that also had an operating room just down the hall? Oh, and why didn't his window have glass in it? At first, I thought it was simply to keep from having a glare for the camera, but Chucky took full advantage of that when Andy tried to lock him in.
Also, if his obsession over Chucky was the reason he was locked up, shouldn't they have brought the doll with? I'm not a psychiatry expert but I would think they would at least want to observe his interactions with the toy (outside of the couple minutes at the police station) to get a better understanding.
For a 6-year-old child, Andy sure seems to have no problem getting around the city of Chicago. This is especially true after his escape from the hospital, when he didn't have Chucky's help and I would assume he had no money for a cab or bus.
I would love to see someone remake this movie with a major twist. Chucky is still a career criminal who ends up in a doll's body but instead of being the killer, the twist would be the police were correct the first time, Andy really is a seriously disturbed 6-year-old who decided to commit murders and frame them on Chucky after learning he was alive. Just a thought.
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Here are my thoughts from other movie re-watches:
My Thoughts After Re-watching Wrong Turn (2003)
My Thoughts After Re-Watching Encino Man (1992)
My Thoughts from Re-watching Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
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