There’s an internal struggle going on within the remake of Child’s Play. No, this isn’t existential crisis or indie bent to the horror classic, but a war of tone. Yes, in rebooting Chucky, the filmmakers have mixed a traditional fright flick with a very strange, almost comedic, take on the material. It doesn’t really work, but when it’s being weird, it’s actually a fair amount of fun. Had that offbeat tone been stuck to, this would have been a real pleasant surprise, though sadly it becomes less and less of a factor as the movie wears on. It’s ultimately second rate horror, even if it’s not the disaster it was shaping up to be, just going by the marketing. The film is a modern day update of the original 1988 horror outing Child’s Play. Here, instead of a doll being possessed by...
- 6/20/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play strips Don Mancini’s voodoo creation of his serial killer soul, replaces it with tampered A.I. programming, and “reimagines” a wholly new genre sandbox. For better, for worse, Kaslan Industries’ cloud-based Buddi dolls introduce a Chucky 2.0 with the same denim overalls, same “ginger” hair, but altogether different creative approach. One that begins as an outright loner comedy then digresses into rudimentary blood-and-guts slasher territory.
Child’s Play is a bizarre combination of Bear McCreary’s vinyl-worthy “toy orchestra” score, Tyler Burton Smith’s wonkily coincidence-based screenplay, death sequences of the highest ick-factor, and so much more – but what’s it all make? A procedurally rigid Child’s Play that doesn’t scare, only shocks through intermittent violence, and begs the question of why this had to be a Chucky reboot in the first place.
Gabriel Bateman steps in as an older iteration of Andy Barclay,...
Child’s Play is a bizarre combination of Bear McCreary’s vinyl-worthy “toy orchestra” score, Tyler Burton Smith’s wonkily coincidence-based screenplay, death sequences of the highest ick-factor, and so much more – but what’s it all make? A procedurally rigid Child’s Play that doesn’t scare, only shocks through intermittent violence, and begs the question of why this had to be a Chucky reboot in the first place.
Gabriel Bateman steps in as an older iteration of Andy Barclay,...
- 6/20/2019
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
The Child’s Play films have a murky past, particularly here in the UK, but their continued hold on legions of horror fans speaks of a primal fear the film plays heavily on. Automatonphobia has produced some fine horror films over the years, one of the most recent being the cruelly underseen Dead Silence from director James Wan, but Chucky and his friends have come to represent this specific genre for many.
With a new film out in the coming weeks DaniElle DeLaite sat down at the film’s press conference in L. A. to hear all about what makes this film a new beginning.
Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry, Gabriel Bateman and director Lars Klevberg attended the press conference of the retelling of the movie Child’s Play. The Star Wars actor voices the fiendish doll and the film also stars Tim Matheson, David Lewis, Beatrice Kitsos and Trent Redekop.
With a new film out in the coming weeks DaniElle DeLaite sat down at the film’s press conference in L. A. to hear all about what makes this film a new beginning.
Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry, Gabriel Bateman and director Lars Klevberg attended the press conference of the retelling of the movie Child’s Play. The Star Wars actor voices the fiendish doll and the film also stars Tim Matheson, David Lewis, Beatrice Kitsos and Trent Redekop.
- 6/14/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In this video actor Brian Tyree Henry is interviewed by DaniElle DeLaite for the remake version of Child’s Play which has Mark Hamill voice the infamous killer doll Chucky. Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Tim Matheson, David Lewis, Beatrice Kitsos and Trent Redekop also star. The film was directed by Lars Klevberg.
Henry talks about watching the original film and the old Friday the 13th films when he was young, and how he became addicted to them. He also talks about the social context of the original film, and how both the old and the new film taps into something deep in society. He tells us there is something about having children in a horror film that makes it different. He could be right.
Here’s the interview.
Brian Tyree Henry Child’s Play Interview
Plot:
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Henry talks about watching the original film and the old Friday the 13th films when he was young, and how he became addicted to them. He also talks about the social context of the original film, and how both the old and the new film taps into something deep in society. He tells us there is something about having children in a horror film that makes it different. He could be right.
Here’s the interview.
Brian Tyree Henry Child’s Play Interview
Plot:
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
- 6/13/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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