Chucky (franchise)
Chucky (also known as Child's Play) is a franchise of mostly slacher movies, about a horror doll named Chucky. The franchise is linked to young child actors as it is about children's toys that come to life and very often young actors play the lead roles. Also, the franchise was conceived by Don Mancini and it was started by Child's Play (1988), the first film of the franchise[1]. Six more movies[2] and a television series (Started in 2021) followed later, which serves as a sequel to the films[3]. An eighth film "about" Chucky was released in 2019, which was not a sequel or anything, but a reboot and thus separate from the earlier films and later television series[4].
Plot
Child's Play (1988)
The first film revolves around six-year-old Andy Barclay who gets a Good Guy doll for his birthday. Later that doll comes to life, because earlier a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray had put his soul in it. Ultimately, Chucky wants to transfer his soul into Andy before it's too late for him!
Child's Play 2 (1990)
More than two years after the events of the first film, the Good Guy doll Chucky is once again being made by the doll factory. Meanwhile, Andy has to go to an adoptive family. There Andy meets his new sister Kyle. Later Chucky manages to return, to finally transfer his soul into Andy.
Child's Play 3 (1991)
Eight years later, the bankrupt company that made the Good Guy dolls is trying to get back to work by making the Good Guy doll Chucky again. Finally, Chucky returns to search for Andy, who attends a military academy.
Bride of Chucky (1998)
A few months after the events of the third part, Tiffany, an ex-girlfriend of Chucky aka Charles Lee Ray, manages to take Chucky's doll from the police, reassemble it and bring it back to life. Later, Tiffany's soul also goes into a doll and then the two go on a journey.
Seed of Chucky (2004)
A new young doll named Glenn is trapped in a circus until he decides to look for his parents Chucky & Tiffany, whom he brings back to life in Hollywood. Later, the three dolls want to transfer their souls into other people, including Jennifer Tilly.
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Nica Pierce is a disabled woman who lives with her mother Sarah Pierce in a country house. One day a Good Guy doll (Chucky) is delivered who, unbeknownst to Nica, kills Sarah. Later, Nica & Sarah's family comes to eat and spend the night, while Chucky (who is owned by Alice, Nica's eight-year-old niece) kills the entire family, out of revenge.
Cult of Chucky (2017)
While Andy Barclay (now a grown man) tortures and interrogates a head of the Good Guy doll Chucky, Nica is transferred to a mental institution. At the psychiatric facility, Nica is visited by Jennifer Tilly and two new Good Guy dolls, each possessed with Chucky's soul and going to kill all kinds of people.
Child's Play (2019)
Thirteen-year-old Andy Barclay gets a robot doll for his birthday, who calls himself Chucky. Later, Andy uses Chucky for his own good and eventually Chucky kills all kinds of people, including Andy's boyfriend's mother.
Chucky (2021)
Season 1
At a flea market, fourteen-year-old Jake Wheeler finds a Good Guy doll, who in the meantime comes to life, murders his father (Forcing Jake to move to his cousin's house) and later turns out to be Chucky. Later, Chucky sets into action his plan to send an entire army of Good Guy dolls (all possessed with Chucky's soul) across the country. Meanwhile, Andy Barclay, Kyle, Jennifer Tilly & Nica Pierce return from the previous films.
Reception
In total, all Chucky movies worldwide have grossed $333,973,000, out of a budget of $64,000,000. Also, the very first Chucky movie "Child's Play" (1988) has been best received by both critics and the public.
