Bride of Chucky
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| Bride of Chucky | |
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 Movie poster for Bride of Chucky |
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| Directed by | Ronny Yu |
| Produced by | David Kirschner Grace Gilroy Don Mancini |
| Written by | Don Mancini |
| Starring | Jennifer Tilly Brad Dourif Katherine Heigl |
| Music by | Graeme Revell |
| Cinematography | Peter Pau |
| Editing by | Randy Bricker David Wu |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 16, 1998 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| Preceded by | Child's Play 3 (1991) |
| Followed by | Seed of Chucky (2004) |
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Bride of Chucky (also known as Child's Play 4: Bride of Chucky) is the fourth movie in the Child's Play series. Made in 1998 it also takes place in 1998 and stars Jennifer Tilly (who plays and voices Tiffany) and Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky). This movie also stars John Ritter, Katherine Heigl, and Nick Stabile. It was directed by Ronny Yu who also directed Freddy vs. Jason and The 51st State.
This entry is the point where the series takes a decidedly more humorous turn, even venturing into self-referential parody. As opposed to the previous three films--controversial for their gruesome displays of violence--all of the violence in this film is punctuated by laughs to deflate the macabre visuals.
Tagline: Chucky gets lucky. Double The Trouble.
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[edit] Plot summary
Chucky returns from the dead after being chopped up in Child's Play 3. He is brought back to life by his girlfriend Tiffany, whom he left 10 years ago when he, as Charles Lee Ray, put his soul into the Good Guy doll.
When Tiffany asks Chucky if he was going to marry her once he got back since he left a ring for her, Chucky tells Tiff that he got that ring from a rich old lady that he killed because it is easily worth $5000 to $6000. Tiffany then says "So, you weren't going to ask me to marry you?" to which Chucky responds, "What are you fuckin' nuts?" and laughs.
The heartbroken Tiffany then drops Chucky into a playpen, intending to hold him prisoner as payback for all the years she waited for him. But while Tiffany is taking a bath and watching Bride of Frankenstein (where writer Don Mancini got the idea for the movie), Chucky escapes by using the diamond necklace from the bride doll Tiffany bought for him to anger him and then attacking Tiffany. He pushes the TV into the bathtub, electrocuting and killing Tiffany. He then puts Tiffany's soul into Tiffany's bride doll using his voodoo. After the two put their differences aside, they decide that they must go to Charles Lee Ray's (Chucky) grave to retrieve his amulet, because without it, Chucky and Tiffany are stuck in doll form forever. Tiffany hires her next-door neighbor, Jesse (Stabile), to transport her two dolls (Chucky & Tiffany) to the cemetery where Charles is buried. Jesse, as it turns out, needs the money that Tiffany is supposed to pay him because he wants to run away with his girlfriend Jade (Heigl), who is the niece of the Chief of Police (Ritter).
[edit] Deaths
1. Robert Bailey (Vincent Corazza): Throat slit by Tiffany
2. Damien Baylock/Howard Fitzwater (Alexis Arquette): Chucky rips his lip piercing and suffocates him with a pillow.
3. Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly): Electrocuted by a TV thrown in the bathtub by Chucky. As was the case in the first film, Child's Play for Chucky where he died as a human and doll in the same film, this is Tiffany's first death.
4. Officer Norton (Nicknamed "Needlenose") (Michael Johnson) : Chucky blows up his car.
5. Guy in telephone booth: Burned by one of Norton's car pieces.
6. Chief Warren Kincaid (John Ritter): Stabbed in the face with nails before Norton dies, and then is stabbed to death by Chucky.
7, 8. Russ (James Gallanders) and Diane (Janet Kiddler): Tiffany throws a bottle, breaking a glass panel above them. The falling mirror pieces kill them.
9. David (Gordon Michael Woolvett): Killed when a truck hits him, throwing his body parts all over the road.
10, 11. Old man and Old woman: Both shot in the head (off-screen).
12. Medical Examiner: Shot in the back of the head by Chucky.
13. Tiffany (Voice by Jennifer Tilly): Beaten and stabbed to death by Chucky. This is her second death in the film.
14. Chucky (Voiced by Brad Douriff) : Jade shoots him in the heart, similar to how he was killed in Child's Play.
15. Lt.Preston (Lawrence Dane) : Apparently killed when Tiffany gives birth, and the baby (later known as Glen/Glenda in Seed of Chucky) tears into his face.
[edit] Allusions
In this film, the series took a more humorous tone and gave several self-referential allusions to not only its own film series (such as with the line "Chucky? He's so... '80s!") but to the horror genre as a whole:
- In the opening scene Michael Myers' and Jason's masks (from the Halloween and Friday the 13th movies, respectively), Leatherface's chain saw (from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies), and Freddy Kruger's glove (from the Nightmare on Elm Street; movies) are visible.
- There is a character in the film named Damien Baylock. In The Omen, the satanic child is called Damien, while his evil nanny is called Mrs. Baylock.
- A certain Bride of Chucky promotional poster, showing black-and-white silhouettes of Chucky and Tiffany with one eye blue and the other green, is a parody of one of the Scream 2 posters.
- The date on Tiffany's newspaper clippings at the beginning of the movie and the date of death on Charles Lee Ray's tombstone is 9 November 1988, the release date of the first Child's Play movie.
- In the opening shot, when the policeman is walking through the evidence locker room, several dolls appear. These resemble, or may actually be, from the movie series Puppet Master. They appear in the first storage case shown, on the left side of the screen.
- When John Ritter's character is killed, his face looks like Pinhead from Hellraiser. Chucky exclaims "Why does that look so familiar?"
- According to the DVD's director commentary, Chucky was originally supposed to say to Chief Warren (John Ritter), "Sorry, Jack, but three's a crowd," after killing him. This joke refers to the fact that Ritter also starred as "Jack" in the hit TV sitcom Three's Company. But at the last minute, the director deleted that out of the script because he found it too corny.
- When Jesse played by Nick Stabile asks Chucky and Tiffany how they got that way Chucky states that it's a long story, and that if it were a movie it would take 3 to 4 sequels to tell. An obvious joke to point out that the Child's Play series has run on to 4 sequels
- The cop that is killed in the opening sequence (Robert Bailey) is again referenced in the following Chucky sequel Seed Of Chucky. Tiffany is trying to stop killing and decides to apoligize for her killings. She calls Mrs. Bailey and apoligizes for slitting her husbands throat, causing Mrs. Bailey to cry and Tiffany to feel she has accomplished her goal.
