Written and directed by Don Mancini, Seed of Chucky is a film that manages to retain sense of humor and is yet still creepy enough while later, manages to have us laughing. It is, if nothing, unexpected, by turns light and dark, spoof and not, horror flick yet not, and not in the least bit expected.
The beginning stage and opening of the film are spooky enough that I still don’t want to go down the stairs to the bathroom at night all by myself, lest there be a murderous something or other lurking about. I still don’t like it when the lights go out and I really don’t like dolls or what should be inanimate objects because they just might move and that would suck.
The film opens with a little English girl getting what she considers to be an ugly doll for her birthday, no note or card attached. Calling the doll ugly is the young girl’s first mistake; leaving it alone, her second because the minute the family turn their backs and go to bed, leaving the knife still in the birthday cake, who should wake up but you-know-who, always ready to exact his revenge. Oh sure, he’s evil anyway, but give him any reason and he’ll take it. This is Chucky – what did you expect?
That the setting of the house is somewhat Gothic in style with high arched windows and other such detailing that only adds to the spookiness of the setting. Yes, it’s a gorgeous house and under any normal circumstance I just might want to buy it, but not this time. It just goes to show how well film can take even the most desirable and beautiful thing and turn it into a thing that is both spooky and weird and let’s face it, a place you wouldn’t be caught dead in, unless you were caught dead in.
Chucky sets about wiping out various family members with that nasty and ever-present sharp knife, knocking off family members and finding, of course, the mandatory nude woman in the shower who will invariably die.
There’s just something about showers and being nude and soap in your eyes and that two seconds when you cannot see and you wonder for a slip second whether or not the knife will come down and get YOU because it always does in films. The whole scene, and others in the film, give plenty of nods to Psycho, down to exacting detail (victim falls out of shower entwined in clear shower curtain, the blood swirling down the drain ). Another scene will show Chucky’s spawn (Glenda or Glen, depending on who you ask, mum or dad, who have an ongoing argument about the sex of their child), but G., let’s say, who will not “even hurt a fly” that lands on him, another nod to Psycho and to our old friend Norman Bates.
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