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19 - WE WATCHED BOTH CHILD'S PLAYS AND NOW MY SMART DOLL WANTS TO KILL MY MOM!


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In this very special MIDWEEK FRIGHTCAST, Zane and McKenna take a hazy trip down memory lane to last week and review Child's Play (1988 and 2019). They also take the ULTIMATE Chucky quiz, despite having only seen 1 out of 7 Chucky movies (spoiler alert they do pretty good, you can answer most of lifes questions through context). In Child's Play 2019, Mark Hamill is the voice of the evil "smartdoll" Chucky, who goes on a killing spree after winding up in the home of single mom Aubrey Plaza and her tweenage socially awkward son. A fun if not entirely successful reinterpreting of the original, Child's Play light tone and grossout humor is enough to pull it away from the morass of dull and joyless modern horror. In Child's Play 1988, Brad Dourif is the voice of Chucky, a doll possessed by the soul of murderer Charles Lee Ray. After single mother Catherine Hicks buys the doll from a homeless gentleman, he begins terrifying her and her young son Andy before heading out to fulfill his mission of murdering those who wronged him as a human. A well written, engaging and occasionally quite creepy movie, Child's Play benefits from strong writing and performances and an atmospherically filmed Chicago. Despite being thirty years old, it holds up extremely well in practically every sense including special effects. A rare 80's movie that Zane LOVED! Huzahh!

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