- Directed by: Don Mancini
- Written by: Don Mancini
- Stars: Fiona Dourif, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 37 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw8rBxYC1Dw
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
This one is more serious, tamping down the humor and upping the horror. Chucky is working solo on a project of his own, and we eventually find out why. Of course there are some collateral deaths along the way. All is explained, it entertains, and of course leaves it open for the next sequel.
Spoilery Synopsis
A delivery driver brings a box for Sarah, and Nica answers the door. Nica’s in a wheelchair, and the driver remembers her from school. They flirt, but Sarah interrupts and is clearly overprotective. Sarah opens the box and inside is a Chucky doll. He promptly winds up in the trash can. Late that night, Nica finds her mother bleeding out on the floor. Credits roll.
Some time later, Nica tells her sister, Barb, that her mother was on her meds and happy; she shouldn’t have killed herself. Father Frank is there as well because Barb is religious, but Nica’s very much not. Ian, Jill, and Alice are there as well; they’re Barb’s family and nanny. Alice immediately has to go to the bathroom, and we see that Chucky’s already in there.
Barb wants to sell the house and put Nica in an assisted living place. Her family needs the money, but Nica wants to stay in the big house. Nica makes everyone dinner, but when she’s out of the room, Chucky puts rat poison in one of the bowls. They all dig in, and we all wonder who’s got the special plate. Ian and the nanny, Jill, are flirting with each other as Father Frank starts to turn green and sweaty. He politely excuses himself and leaves. We soon see that he doesn’t get very far before getting in a very fatal traffic accident.
The family watches old movies of when the girls were young. They all see a creepy guy with long hair in the film. He must have been one of their neighbors.
The Chucky doll goes missing, and Barb sends Jill to go find it. Barb catches up to her, and it soon becomes clear that she’s the one banging the nanny. They talk about Nica’s bad heart. Meanwhile Chucky tells Alice all kinds of things about life and death.
Nica senses something off about the doll and does some research. She uncovers all the events of the previous films, including the death of Charles Lee Ray. As she reads about the famous serial killer, Chucky electrocutes Jill. Meanwhile, Ian tells Barb that he knows about her cheating with the Nanny. And he’s going to have proof from the nanny cam he put in Chucky.
Barb and Nica argue about the doll, both knowing different things about it. Barb goes looking for Alice up in the attic and peels off the repairs that Chucky made to cover his old scars. He then shows her what he thinks of her eyes.
Chucky comes after Nica, and she crawls away from him. She wakes up Ian, who finds the bodies. He thinks she killed them, but then she has a heart spell and passes out. She wakes up tied to her chair; he wants to know what she did to Alice.
He plays back the footage from the camera he put inside Chucky to spy on Barb and Jill. The footage shows everything that happened from Chucky’s point of view. Chucky comes up behind them and kills Ian, but Nica manages to decapitate Chucky with an ax.
Chucky regains his head and pushes Nica, wheelchair and all, over the railing two or three flights up. She’s not dead, and she explains that she knows who he really is. He comes clean, that he was an old friend of the family; that was him in the old movies. When Nica’s father died, he kidnapped Sarah and tormented her. He caused Nica’s paralysis. We get a flashback of all this, and also of Charles Lee Ray’s death and Chucky’s creation.
Chucky brags about the families he killed, but Nica knows he never killed Andy Barclay. She taunts him about his completion anxiety. They fight some more, and she stabs him in the back.
Meanwhile, the police have been investigating Father Frank’s death, and they come to the door to investigate. They hear Nica screaming inside and find… everything, including Nica holding a knife.
Chucky watches as Nica is committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. Chucky is used as evidence and then is stolen by a police officer who absconds with the doll after the trial. Out of nowhere, Jennifer Tilly (or is that Tiffany?) pops up in the back seat and kills the cop, re-releasing Chucky.
We cut to Tiffany at the shipping place; she mails the package to Alice’s grandmother. Alice is pleased to see Chucky. “Where is Grandma?” He wants to play “Hide the soul” with Alice. This time, no one interrupts him…
After the credits, six months later, Andy Barclay gets a package in the mail. Except Andy’s ready for him…
Brian’s Commentary
Nica’s lived in this house for years, why does she constantly seem surprised that she has no cell reception there?
Chucky’s got a bit of a makeover since his previous appearance, losing the scars, at least in the beginning. He’s much more digital here, less with the practical effects, and although it’s different, it’s not necessarily a change for the better. This one also drops most of the humor and jokiness of the previous few films and returns to the full-on horror genre.
It’s good!
Kevin’s Commentary
I love that house. Chucky did look a bit different, even after his scar coverups were removed he seemed less detailed. But the movie worked overall, and I was entertained. I’d call it another successful entry in the series.