YOU ONLY WISH IT WAS MAKE BELIEVE By: SASHA SLAUGHTER

Ohh well hey there people that search "humiliated corpse". REALLY?? Ughh! Here at Dead End Horror, we are absolutely fly paper for freaks, and we wouldn't have it any other way. And with that being said, let me tell you a little about today's post. Today I'll be reviewing Child's Play (in lieu of the holiday season). Even though I don't think Child's Play is necessarily a Christmas movie, Zane in all of his wisdom says that it is. So I guess he pretty much relieved himself on my opinion, huh? So let me tell you a little more about it.

Child's Play is an American Horror film that was written by Don Mancini and directed by Tom Holland. The film was met with moderate success, and soon developed a cult following among fans of the horror genre. And here's a little FYI for ye...In 2008 a remake of the film was discussed and slated for a possible 2012 or 2013 release. Before I tell you more about the movie, I gotta say...REALLY? A remake of Child's Play?? Losing your creative ability much?? Douches. I'd like to see some originality and not constant remakes of old movies because you can't think of anything else. Thanks!

In November of 1988 in Chicago, Illinois, while being chased by a Detective, Charles Lee Ray, a serial killer known as "The Lakeshore Strangler" is shot and fatally wounded. He takes cover in a toy store knowing that he cannot escape. He sees boxes of "Good Guy" dolls and uses a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into one of the dolls. Almost immediately the store is struck by lightning and burns to the ground, although most of it's inventory, including the dolls, survives. Later that morning 6 year old Andy Barclay tells his mother that he wants a Good Guy doll for his birthday. Karen Barclay knows that she can't afford the full price of the doll, so she buys a stolen one from a street peddler. It happens to be the same doll that Charles Lee Ray had earlier transferred his soul into.

Later that night as Andy is playing with his new doll, who has introduced himself as "Chucky", Andy's babysitter Maggie scolds Andy for placing Chucky in front of the TV. When Andy denies doing so, Maggie sends him to his room. Shortly after, Maggie is violently attacked by an unseen force with a hammer and falls out the kitchen window to her death. Later, when Andy is questioned he insists that Chucky told him he was alive and that he killed Maggie. The following day, Andy takes Chucky and visits Eddie, an old accomplice of Charles Lee Ray's, who had betrayed him. Chucky sneaks into Eddie's house and blows out a pilot light on the stove and then turns up the gas. Eddie soon discovers that Chucky is alive and in panicked self-defense, he fires his gun and the house explodes. Because Andy was found close to the scene of the crime, he is taken to a psychiatric ward. His mother Karen quickly discovers that Andy is telling the truth because the batteries included with the doll were never put in.

Later that night, Karen finds Chucky in the apartment and threatens to throw him into the fireplace. He comes alive in her hands, bites her and runs out of the apartment. She then calls Detective Norris, who is investigating Maggie's death. He is hesitant to believe her story, but the homeless man she bought the doll from confirms that he retrieved it from the burnt down toy store where Charles Lee Ray was killed. Later that night, Norris becomes a believer when he is attacked by Chucky in his car and survives only by shooting the doll. Chucky then meets with his voo doo instructor from years past, and asks him why his gunshot wound had bled, when dolls don't have blood.

The instructor informs him that his body is slowly conforming to that of a humans and will soon be entirely flesh and blood, trapping him within it. Chucky demands to know how to stop it, and because the voo doo instructor believes Chucky had been abusing his voo doo knowledge, refuses to help. Chucky tortures the instructor, and eventually he admits that Chucky can escape the dolls body if he transfers his soul into the body of the first person that he revealed his true nature to, and that person is little Andy Barclay....

What a demonic little dolly!!! I definitely don't want one of those for Christmas! No way! Ok, anyway..This movie is old! Damn! Well, actually and technically, I'm a year older than this movie really. Wow right?? I've seen this movie a handful of times, not many. It's a decent enough film, although I didn't think it was scary by any means. It's basically a goofy looking doll going around and killing people while spouting off clever little one liners. That's the charm of the movie I guess. But then again, this movie was made in 1988, so I guess the movie doesn't scare quite as many people today, because it takes alot more to scare people nowadays. I will say that this film is most definitely iconic, and for sure horror at it's finest in the late 80's. One thing I wonder about is why, if Chucky gets killed in the movie, are there sequels? I thought he died?? I don't remember honestly. It's been a hot damn minute since I've seen any of the Child's Play movies.

Overall I'd give Child's Play a 2.5 out of 5. I didn't think it was all that scary, there wasn't alot of blood or gore, only a few murders...mehhh. I heard it was rumored that the Chucky doll was based on a similar doll called "My Buddy". That's sort of creepy, considering the fact that my little brother once had a My Buddy doll. Yikes. Don Mancini, the creator of Child's Play, later revealed that the idea of Chucky was actually based on Cabbage Patch Kids. Weird. This is just a classic 80's horror movie, and I'd recommend it, especially to the younger generations of horror fans. Well, now that I'm done yapping, how about you go see what your good buddy Zombie Zane is up to?? Thanks for stopping by!