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Deadly Playthings
Materialists say, "He who dies with the most toys wins." Existentialists note, "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, dead."
Most of us recall favorite toys of childhood, but what happens when our toys take on a decidedly deadly personality?
The Doll of Doom
While there have been many films about haunted toys over the years, one of the most successful was director Tom Holland's 1988 United Artists release Child's Play, which spawned a popular series starring the evil doll Chucky.
The doll starts out harmless enough as a commercially made Good Guys toy. However, when vicious killer Charles “Chucky” Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) is cornered in a toy-store shootout, the bad guy uses his knowledge of voodoo to escape his mortal body and slip inside the Good Guy’s plastic shell. Lightning strikes the store and burns the place down, but the doll is unscathed and, next thing you know, ends up in the arms of unsuspecting youngster Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent). As Chucky the doll, Ray soon starts killing folks. In a confrontation with pal who taught him the voodoo, Ray learns that he will be trapped forever inside the doll’s body if he doesn’t take over a fresh human one pronto.
Chucky decides Andy would make a nice host, but he tips his hand to Andy’s mom, Karen (Catherine Hicks), who convinces police detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) to help her save her son.
Stuart Gordon's Deadly Dolls
In Dolls, Stuart Gordon's 1987 thriller, a motley group of stranded travelers spends the night in the mansion of elderly couple Gabriel (Guy Rolfe) and Hilary (Hilary Mason) Hartwicke, who make and collect dolls. They have hundreds of them. As the night passes, one of the travelers, a precocious little girl (Carrie Lorraine), discovers that the dolls are more than just harmless toys.
Gordon said he got the inspiration for Dolls from the 1936 Todd Browning film The Devil-Doll, which starred legendary actor Lionel Barrymore.
It's worth noting that Dolls, Gordon's third release, predates Child's Play and the Puppetmaster series. In fact, several members of the Dolls special-effects crew went on to work on the Puppetmaster films.
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Materialists say, "He who dies with the most toys wins." Existentialists note, "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, dead."
Most of us recall favorite toys of childhood, but what happens when our toys take on a decidedly deadly personality?
The Doll of Doom
While there have been many films about haunted toys over the years, one of the most successful was director Tom Holland's 1988 United Artists release Child's Play, which spawned a popular series starring the evil doll Chucky.
The doll starts out harmless enough as a commercially made Good Guys toy. However, when vicious killer Charles “Chucky” Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) is cornered in a toy-store shootout, the bad guy uses his knowledge of voodoo to escape his mortal body and slip inside the Good Guy’s plastic shell. Lightning strikes the store and burns the place down, but the doll is unscathed and, next thing you know, ends up in the arms of unsuspecting youngster Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent). As Chucky the doll, Ray soon starts killing folks. In a confrontation with pal who taught him the voodoo, Ray learns that he will be trapped forever inside the doll’s body if he doesn’t take over a fresh human one pronto.
Chucky decides Andy would make a nice host, but he tips his hand to Andy’s mom, Karen (Catherine Hicks), who convinces police detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) to help her save her son.
Stuart Gordon's Deadly Dolls
In Dolls, Stuart Gordon's 1987 thriller, a motley group of stranded travelers spends the night in the mansion of elderly couple Gabriel (Guy Rolfe) and Hilary (Hilary Mason) Hartwicke, who make and collect dolls. They have hundreds of them. As the night passes, one of the travelers, a precocious little girl (Carrie Lorraine), discovers that the dolls are more than just harmless toys.
Gordon said he got the inspiration for Dolls from the 1936 Todd Browning film The Devil-Doll, which starred legendary actor Lionel Barrymore.
It's worth noting that Dolls, Gordon's third release, predates Child's Play and the Puppetmaster series. In fact, several members of the Dolls special-effects crew went on to work on the Puppetmaster films.
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