Child's Play 2

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Child's Play 2
Directed by	John Lafia
Produced by	David Kirschner Laura Moskowitz
Written by	Don Mancini
Starring	Alex Vincent Jenny Agutter
Music by	Graeme Revell
Cinematography	Stefan Czapsky
Editing by	Edward Warschilka
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 9, 1990
Running time	84 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$13,000,000 (estimated)
Preceded by	Child's Play (1988)
Followed by	Child's Play 3 (1991)
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Child's Play 2 (also known as Child's Play 2: Chucky's Back) is the 1990 sequel to the 1988 horror film Child's Play, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia. It was released by Universal City Studios on November 9, 1990, exactly two years after the predecessor. There is less of a structured plot than in the original, and Chucky has more of a witty character than before.

The film was regarded as being widely successful for a horror film, in its opening weekend - it took an estimated $10,718,520, with only 1,996 screens in the United States. The film grossed an estimated $28,501,605 in the US and was declared a hit. The movie flopped overseas and only grossed $7.2 million.

tagline "Sorry, Jack... Chucky's Back!"

1 Plot summary
2 Main cast
3 Deaths
4 Trivia
5 Filming locations
6 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Andy Barclay has been placed in a foster home after the tragic events of the first film. Mrs. Barclay, his mother, has been committed to a mental institution after testifying that Chucky was, in fact, alive. In an attempt to save their reputation, the manufacturers of Good Guy Dolls reconstruct the killer doll (Chucky), to prove to the public that nothing was wrong with it. The company assumes an employee had tampered with Chucky's voice synthesizer. In reconstructing Chucky, they also (unintentionally) bring the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray back to life. As Chucky tries to locate Andy, the body count rises. Chucky tracks Andy to a foster home where the chase begins again. Eventually Chucky manages to capture Andy, and while his new foster sister Kyle is in pursuit he brings Andy to the main factory where Good Guy dolls are made. There, Chucky actually manages to complete the voodoo transfer ritual, but Chucky has remained in his doll form for too long and as a result the ritual fails, leaving Chucky stuck as a doll and sending him into a frothing-at-the-mouth homidical rage. Andy and Kyle flee into the factory, with Chucky in pursuit. After a chase (during which Chucky loses a hand, and replaces it with a knife), Andy finally traps Chucky on a conveyer belt and backs it into a machine that appears to melt Chucky's body into a mass of blood and plastic. But Chucky isn't dead yet: he cut his own legs off to escape and makes one last try at Andy after he manages to knock out Kyle. Crawling over on a tray to get Andy, he puts himself right under a valve for a large cauldron of liquified (and hence molten) plastic. With a pull of the lever, Andy spews the molten plastic all over Chucky, seemingly killing him this time. Andy rescues the unconscious Kyle and the two take one last look at the mess where Chucky had been...as Chucky rears up, still going despite it all, and makes one last try for Andy...until Kyle grabs an air hose Chucky cut in half a moment ago and shoves it in Chucky's mouth, which causes Chucky's head to inflate like a balloon until it explodes, which finally kills Chucky. (Partially taken from the plot summary of the VHS/DVD box for Child's Play 2.)

[edit] Main cast

Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay
Jenny Agutter as Joanne Simpson
Gerrit Graham as Phil Simpson
Christine Elise as Kyle
Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky

[edit] Deaths

1. Unnamed Technician: Electrocuted when Chucky returns to life.

2. Mattson (Greg Germann): Suffocated by plastic bag.

3. Tommy (Doll) (Edan Gross (voice)): Beat to death by figurine. (Note: May not count as a death due to being an inanimate object)

4. Miss Kettlewell (Beth Grant): Stabbed, than beat to death with a ruler.

5. Phil Simpson (Gerrit Graham): Hung upside down than dropped on neck.

6. Joanne Simpson (Jenny Agutter): Throat slashed.

7. Grace Poole (Grace Zabriskie): Stabbed to death.

8. Unnamed Technician #2: Eyes gouged out by machine.

9. Chucky (Brad Dourif (voice)): Is melted by molten plastic, but manages to come back to life. A loose air hose is then shoved into his mouth, causing his head to expand and eventually burst.

[edit] Trivia

A different ending is shown during the USA Network airing version than the one in the theatrical release. After Andy and Kyle come out of the factory, during the point where the credits would usually roll, we are taken back into the factory, and shown pieces of Chucky, most notably his eye stirring into the vat of plastic, then a new head is made (without hair or eyes), the head makes an evil grin, then the credits roll.