chucky

This may be as hard to believe as a doll come to life, but Bride of Chucky is one of the best horror films of the 1990s. Gory, trashy, funny, and truly entertaining, the film pays homage to the entire genre, is a send-up of its own predecessors, and plays out like a wild & witty remake of Bride of Frankenstein. And after the surprisingly dreary Child's Play 3 and a seven-year hiatus, it's good to see the ol' Chuckster cleans up real good.
It seems as though Don Mancini (the writer of every Child's Play entry) knew that in the post-Scream environment of late-nineties horror, a strict resurrection of Chucky's malevolent ways would be ludicrous. Instead, he's written a smart, biting comedy of errors. Director Ronny Yu definitely seems “in” on the joke: sidestepping typical attempts at fright and humor, Bride of Chucky enters the same comic horror pantheon as Evil Dead and Fright Night. The Farrelly brothers would be proud of its gross-out sensibilities and over-the-top slapstick.
The perfectly cast Jennifer Tilly plays Tiffany, the distraught girlfriend of Charles Lee Ray (the serial killer whose soul lives inside the Chucky doll). At the film’s outset, Tiffany hires a scummy cop to steal Chucky’s remains from an evidence locker. After a few staples, thread, and an ancient voodoo ritual, Tiffany’s plastic-bound boyfriend is back to his old tricks. His first order of business: mercilessly slaughtering Tiffany’s flirty friend (character actor Alexis Arquette).