Thursday 31 January 2019

Review: Seed of Chucky (2004)

Stars: Brad Douriff, Jennifer Tilly

Budget: $12 Million

Directed By: Don Mancini

The one a lot of people forget about, it's not necessarily bad but it's definitely the weakest of the bunch. Though it does move the story along at the very least.

We all Tiffany gave birth at the end of Bride, that pretty much closed the movie after all. All the usual people are back in their respectful places too.
Brad Douriff as the voice of the insane killer doll Chucky and Jennifer Tilly as the voice of his equally deranged girlfriend doll Tiffany. Don Mancini is there at the helm too in his as directing debut film.

this is set 6 years after bride and part 3 (which were meant to be the same time almost) and the child that they had has grown up considerably in that time.

Having been discovered and brought up by a person using him as a ventriloquist doll the six year old doll boy named Glen, who seems to age slightly differently than a real boy (though this is not said). See's something on TV about the serial killers Tiffany and Chucky, he then realises they are his real parents. Glen escapes the clutches of his owner, who was a dick to him anyway and discovers that actress Jennifer Tilly is in possession of two prop dolls as she's doing a film about them (meta anyone?).
Glen finds both of them in the movie prop room and uses a voodoo amulet to bring (the heart of damballa) them both back to life. Both of them react in the obvious ways Chucky faints possibly in denial and Tiffany loves it that she has a child.
It's quickly cut short when someone enters the room and they all play the usual prone, that is until the puppeteer starts to fiddle with Tiffany.Both her and Chucky garrote the puppeteer with some piano wire and end up decapitating him. Hiding again as Jennifer (playing herself) Tilly enters and finds the man dead and she calls the police.

The three dolls manage to evade detection however and hide inside Jeniffers limo. Glen however gets deeply alienated by his parents actions, he can't understand why they keep killing people. He makes Tiffany and Chucky promise not to kill anyone else.
Chucky however keeps his fingers crossed behind his back the whole time.

Now the plot for this one is a bit convoluted, I'll summarise it up as best I can. Chucky and Tiffany try to possess people to give them bodies back. Jennifer being Tiffanys main target and Redman (a real life rapper) who is making a film Jen wants to be in.
Tiff and Chucky argue a lot over things, Glen ends up accidentally killing someone which Chucky thinks wasn't an accident. Tiffany inseminates Jennifer making her pregnant with Chucky's semen. Glen has ends up with a female murderous split personality called Glenda, Chucky's choices for transference end up getting killed lots.
This all leads up to near the final act of the film.  (Oh and amusingly they kill Brittany spears at one point)

Right near the end after Jeniffer gives birth to twins Tiffany attempts to possess her one more time. She is however mortally wounded by Chucky before she can. This actually forces Glen to react and attack Chucky back.
Is it Glenda?
Does he beat Chucky?
What happens to Jennifer's babies?
These are things you will have to find out yourself as, as always here on THN I don't spoil movie ending unless they are quite quite abysmal. Even though seed is by far for me the worst entry in the series it's still not as bad as say a spin off remake where the good guy doll is just killer AI gone mad no one would do that right?
Oh wait, cough, anyway THN awards Seed of Chucky a solid 2 stars out of 5 but only in conjunction with the rest of the series otherwise it's still quite a solid watch especially if your a fan of the series.


No comments:

Post a Comment