As I began to read this I was thinking First Showing‘s writer Alex Billington thought it was just as stupid of an idea as I think it is, but instead I realized he wasn’t being sarcastic; he was being serious. Word apparently came out of the Martian Child junket of all places that producer David Kirschner is working on a Child’s Play remake and that they are even bringing back the same screenwriter, Don Mancini, that wrote all five Chucky films to write the remake and that it would definitely be “more terrifying”.
Really? More terrifying? Well damn, sign me up. I never realized that a movie about a killer doll could be any more terrifying, but I am going to take Kirschner’s word on this one and assume that it will be. I mean, I always assumed Don Mancini was holding something back when he wrote Seed of Chucky, because it truly did suck.
Let’s face it, the Chucky films became parodies of themselves, primarily because no one is scared of a fucking killer doll anymore. If that is what you need pop in the original Child’s Play, it’s an okay movie or perhaps Poltergeist, which has a very short freaky doll scene, but it is far more terrifying than anything Child’s Play ever offered.
If they have a story that is so terrifying why don’t they create a new killer doll franchise? You know why? Because it isn’t that terrifying and they need the name recognition to sell a film that never should be considered in the first place. I am sure it will have some level of fun since all the Chucky films carry that level of comedy because it is, afterall, a killer doll. However, it’s films like this that are clogging the arteries of our theaters lately and it’s time they were all sent straight to video since that is the reason they are made in the first place. Box-office dollars are just gravy on top of DVD sales for movies like this.
