FearStyle Friday, let's do this. This week was all about Chucky. It's like everywhere I turn I see more Chucky news. Don't get me wrong, I love it but it is all in relation to the new Child's Play movie and I'm not in love with it. My stance on horror remakes is this; there are some movies that need to be remade and some that don't. In my opinion, Child's Play does NOT need to be remade. Some older horror movies, sure, but not Chucky. He is still relevant in pop culture due to the newer movies in the franchise. All this new one feels like is another unnecessary remake that we don't need. And the thing that bugs me most is that none of the original people involved with all the other movies want anything to do with this one. Doesn't that speak volumes to any other horror fans out there? Now, I didn't just write this out to talk about how unhappy I am about this. No, I took time to talk about the trailer in total that has been circulating the Internet, so let's chat.The trailer begins with some happy shot of dolls being made and of families enjoying all the technological advances in entertainment, when we scan over our central characters. We have a mother and her son, with the mom reaching for a large present box that we can all assume aren't groceries. A couple more shots of little doll hands moving in the dark, then another zoom on the boy who utters the only bit of dialogue in the whole trailer, "Chucky?". Quickly, as the trailer picks up speed, we flash over more shots of people in peril, including the mother, tied up and bleeding with a nice zoom on her horrified eyes. Another shot of a doll head but no face and that's it. No dialogue, no actual shot of the doll's face, no doll voice. I think that it is needless to say that I was disappointed. However, I do plan on seeing this movie and am looking forward to all the trailers and other marketing that this movie is going to generate, but I am less than stoked.
I have a couple problems with the trailer. The biggest one is that I think that the child who is playing the 'Andy' character looks a little old to be playing a little boy who wants a doll for a best friend. I mean, who am I to say how old someone needs to be to play with dolls but in the original movie Andy was a little six year old boy. This is an appropriate age for a child to want a doll to play with. In the trailer, the boy looks to be anywhere between 10-12 years old. Another, and arguably not as important, point is that Chucky's overalls don't say GoodGuy on them. They say Buddi. I'm not so bugged about that one and you'll read why shortly, but it was a little odd. Finally, why don't we get to see Chucky's face or hear his voice? I know that Brad Dourif isn't going to do the voice, but why skip it? I want to know what I am getting myself into before I buy the ticket. And what about his face? There has been some shots of it making its way around the internet and it's not looking great. The most we get of doll terror in the trailer is a couple shots of the doll running around, in the middle of the road, and reaching for his overalls. Overall, I was just really underwhelmed.Now, the history. The original screenplay for what would later be called Child's Play was a story called Blood Buddies about a little boy who becomes blood brothers with his doll. The gimmick behind the doll was that if children played too hard with it they could accidentally tear the skin causing it to bleed. The parents then would have to go out and buy band aids for the toy. The doll had so many accessories for it and the kids wanted the toy so much, parents would run out and buy everything for the doll. Basically, the best money making scheme ever. It was similar to the Cabbage Patch Kids fiasco of the 80s, every child had to have one. So, the boy gets bullied and does a blood ritual with the doll and in a Frankenstein moment the doll comes to life and kills whoever hurts the boy. That's the original story. It was changed later to include voodoo and a serial killer, a lonely little boy who is prone to telling stories and a struggling single mother who tries to do everything she can for her son. However, I did see a great homage in the new trailer is the Buddi symbol on the dolls overalls. I know that the director doesn't have the complete approval of the original director, so maybe this was aimed at him. I can only hope that this is a nod to the original screenplay and is done in a tasteful manner. I think that it is pretty cool.
My hopes for the new movie is that it pays homage to the original and brings something new to the table. We live in a time where technology advances everyday and I hope that this new story plays with that. I am not a fan of shot for shot remakes and hopefully this one can bring something even more fun to Chucky, the killer doll. I don't mean to rant, I always hope that something better can come out of something that has been done, but I just can't seem to get pumped for this one. It's like I said in the beginning of this post, some movies need to be remade but Chucky is not one of them, at least in my opinion. I mean we had a Chucky movie just a couple years ago, a remake is just unnecessary. I guess I am more confused than anything and I think y'all can see that.
I think that is all I have to say about this one. Tell me what your thoughts on the new Child's Play manner are. Do you love the idea? Do you hate it? Are you like me and think that it is unnecessary or are you crazy about the idea? I wanna hear your thoughts. Feel free to follow, like, comment if you like what you read and want to see more. Until next time, stay spooky.
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