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Child's Play is a 2019 slasher film directed by Lars Klevberg from a screenplay written by Tyler Burton Smith. Serving both as a remake of the 1988 film of the same name and a reboot of the Child's Play franchise, the film stars Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky. It follows a family terrorized by a high-tech doll who becomes self-aware and subsequently murderous.
Plans for a Child's Play remake began in the early 2010s, with original Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif set to reprise the role. However, it was turned down and the project entered development hell. By 2018, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced a remake with a different creative team than the original film series. Klevberg signed on as director from a script by Burton Smith, saying in an interview he drew inspiration from the 1982 science fiction film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Principal photography for the film began in September 2018 and wrapped in November 2018 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Child's Play was theatrically released in the United States on June 21, 2019, by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $45 million worldwide with a $10 million budget.
Plot[]
Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accordingly, quickly becoming a worldwide success. At a Kaslan assembly factory in Vietnam, overworked employee Chien is fired by his supervisor for unsatisfactory performance. In retaliation, he tampers with the Buddi doll that he is assembling by disabling all of its safety protocols before committing suicide. The doll is packaged alongside others for its international delivery.
In Chicago, Illinois, widowed retail clerk Karen Barclay and her twelve-year-old hearing-impaired son Andy have moved into a new apartment. In an attempt to cheer Andy up for the unease relocation and the presence of her new boyfriend Shane, Karen blackmails her boss in order to procure a defective Buddi doll, giving it to Andy as an early birthday gift. Once activated, the doll names himself "Chucky" and becomes attached to Andy. Over time, Chucky helps him to befriend other two children, Falyn and Pugg, but also begins to display violent tendencies. For instance, he tries to strangle the Barclays' pet cat after it scratches Andy and, while he and his friends gleefully watch a horror film, Chucky starts mimicking the violence, approaching the trio with a kitchen knife before Andy disarms him.
When Andy arrives home the next morning, he finds that his cat is dead; Chucky admits to have killed it so that it would not hurt Andy anymore. Karen locks the doll in a closet, but he escapes and terrorizes Shane, which leads him to confront Andy. Overhearing Andy's pleas for Shane to be gone, Chucky follows him to his home, where it is revealed that Shane is married with children and is having an affair with Karen behind his wife's back. While Shane is outside taking down Christmas lights, Chucky breaks his legs and activates a cultivator that scalps and kills him. The following day, Chucky delivers Shane's skinned face as a gift to a horrified Andy.
While police detective Mike Norris begins an investigation, Andy, Falyn, and Pugg disable Chucky and throw him in the garbage. Building voyeur and electrician Gabe finds the doll and prepares him for an online sale. Now fully repaired, Chucky tortures and murders Gabe with a table saw. After making his way back to the apartment, Chucky lands in possession of another child, Omar, and proceeds to kill Norris' mother Doreen in a controlled car crash. Meanwhile, Andy fails to convince Karen that the doll has become murderous and she takes him along to her next shift-work at the local shopping mall to keep him nearby. Suspecting that Andy is the killer, Norris travels to the mall and arrests him just as Chucky takes full control of the building.
Chaos is unleashed as several employees and customers are brutally killed by rampaging Buddi dolls while Chucky triggers the mall's lockdown sequence. Norris is wounded amid the massacre, and Andy and his friends manage to escape. However, Andy is forced to return when Chucky reveals that he is holding Karen hostage with intentions to kill her. Andy manages to free his mother while being attacked by Chucky, before stabbing him in his power cell. Norris shoots the doll dead and Karen beheads him. While the police and paramedics tend to Karen, Norris, and other survivors outside the mall, Andy and his friends destroy and burn Chucky's body in a nearby alleyway.
In the aftermath of Chucky's killing spree, Kaslan CEO Henry Kaslan issues a statement regarding Chucky's programming and announces a massive Buddi dolls recall. As one of the dolls is being placed into storage, his eyes flicker red and smiles, revealing that Chucky transferred his artificial intelligence awareness into a new body.