To countdown to this year’s Halloween, Luke Owen reviews a different horror film every day of October. Up next; Seed of Chucky…
With Curse of Chucky being released tomorrow (read my review here), Countdown to Halloween will be looking at everyone’s fourth or fifth favourite slasher villain: Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky.
As a series, Child’s Play has always been easy to laugh at due to the wackiness of the main character. Even Child’s Play 2 (which is arguably the best attempt to make him scary pre-Curse of Chucky) has its moments in which the character is utterly ridiculous and hard to take seriously, but it at least attempted to bring some horror out of him. The problem is that as soon as you highlight that something is painful and stupid, it just becomes painful and stupid. The more you point out the laughable antagonist, the less funny the movie becomes because it feels like it’s trying too hard. Again, Mancini missed the point of what made Scream such a success.
Luke Owen is one of Flickering Myth’s co-editors and the host of the Flickering Myth Podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @LukeWritesStuff.