Child's Play 3

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Child's Play 3
Child's Play 3 DVD cover
Directed by	Jack Bender
Produced by	Robert Latham Brown
Written by	Don Mancini
Starring	Brad Dourif Justin Whalin Perrey Reeves
Music by	Cory Lerios John D'Andrea
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Editing by	Scott Wallace Edward A. Warschilka
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	1991
Running time	90 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Child's Play 2 (1990)
Followed by	Bride of Chucky (1998)
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Child's Play 3 (also known as Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking) is the third movie in the Child's Play series. Brad Dourif returned as the voice of Chucky. The film became notorious in the United Kingdom, when it was suggested that it may have inspired the real-life murder of toddler James Bulger.

Tagline: 'There comes a time to put away childhood things. But some things won't stay put!'

Contents 1 Box office 2 Plot summary 2.1 Deaths 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Box office

The movie was a box office bomb grossing only $20.5 million worldwide. Critics panned the movie and fans of the franchise dismissed it as a waste.

[edit] Plot summary

Killer doll Chucky aka Charles Lee Ray, after being brought back to life thanks to the Good Guys Doll Company (six years after the events of Child's Play 2), discovers that Andy Barclay, now 16 years old, (Justin Whalin) has been enrolled in a military school. After being sent from foster home to foster home, to Andy, military school was a last resort. At the school, Chucky finds a little boy named Ronald Tyler (Jeremy Sylvers) who he realizes, due to his new body, he can transfer his soul to, rather than Andy who he's been relying on for all these years. Andy finds out that Chucky has stalked him to the military school, and learns about his plan to possess the body of Tyler, and vows to stop him. Already realizing that no one would believe him if he told anyone at the school, Andy tries to work behind the backs of those in command, especially his brutal commanding officer Cadet Lt. Col. Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine). Chucky builds himself a small body count, including a garbage man (Terry Willis), the head of the school, and the school barber before finally making his move on Tyler. During a military exercise Chucky replaces the paint ball ammunition with live rounds, so that when the two teams of students meet, they actually begin killing each other by accident. Tyler, out of panic, flees the woods and makes for a carnival that was taking place not far from the academy. Andy with his new girlfriend Kristen De Silva (Perrey Reeves) confronts Chucky inside a horror themed fun house where Chucky is trying to steal Tyler's soul. As usual for the series, Chucky's death comes by a series of things. His face is partially sliced off by a scythe swung by a statue of the Grim Reaper. Then one arm is blown off by Andy's revolver, then he's shot in the chest. Finally as Andy and Chucky struggle atop a great pile of foam skulls, Andy manages to cut Chucky's other hand off with a pocket knife, and flip him over onto a giant fan, which dices him, finally (at least until the sequel) killing him.

[edit] Deaths

1. Mr. Sullivan (Peter Haskell)
Strangled with yo-yo string.

2. Garbage man (Terry Wills)
Crushed in trash compactor.

3. Col. Cochrane (Dakin Matthews)
Heart attack after seeing the frenzied Chucky.

4. Sgt. Botnick (Andrew Robinson)
Throat slashed by razor.

5. Cadet Lt. Col Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine)
Killed by live round in war games.

6. Cadet Harold Aubrey Whitehurst (Dean Jacobson)
Sacrifices himself by covering grenade.

7. Fair Security Guard (Michael Chieffo)
Shot in the head.

8. Chucky (Brad Dourif (voice))
Stabbed by Tyler, part of face sliced by a Rollar Coaster's Sythe's blade, left arm shot off, shot in the chest, right hand cut-off, and thrown into giant fan.

[edit] Trivia

• Under pressure from Universal Studios, screenwriter Don Mancini was asked to begin writing the third film even before the second film was released. Hence, Child's Play 3 was released two years after Child's Play 2. Mancini has called it his least favorite because he felt he was out of ideas so soon after part 2.

• A prologue to the film was initially written featuring a pair of siblings, Joey and Pam, who break into the abandoned Good Guy Factory. The sequence would've made for lots of creepy visuals and explain how the doll making machine "turns on by itself". In the script Pam finds Chucky's remains and part of his head "snaps viperously at her fingertips". She falls backwards onto a lever, activating the machine. The two children scamper off. Jason Ritter (son of actor John Ritter who would later appear in Bride of Chucky) was initially cast to play the character of Joey. At the last minute Universal opted not to film the prologue.

• The film was filmed at historic Kemper Military School (now closed). Students and instructors of were seen as extras in the film and also served as advisers.

[edit] External links

• Child's Play 3 at the Internet Movie Database