Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of Nerdifficent. I
Speaker 1: am your host if you are away, and sitting across
Speaker 1: from me as always is Danny Fernandez. I can't believe
Speaker 1: that October is already. It's winding down. I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm doing for Halloween? Iffie, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Okay, Well they don't listen, so they won't know.
Speaker 1: But I'm surprising my niece and nephew. I'm flying to
Speaker 1: see them and I'm dressing up as Selena and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go trick or treating with them as Selena. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited. I got her purple outfit, I got a
Speaker 1: glitter microphone. I'm doing it soon. You're gonna They're gonna
Speaker 1: be at the age where you're gonna go boom Selena.
Speaker 1: They're like, go, man, You're never I'm kidding. I've repped
Speaker 1: for all Latina's but Selena the O g Selena. Um,
Speaker 1: but with us today. Someone that loves Halloween also so excited.
Speaker 1: She is a writer for Thundercat's Roar. She's also a
Speaker 1: writer and performed at uc B. It is Joan Ford.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, of course. Wow do you think
Speaker 1: I feel like even Selena Gomez might be a little
Speaker 1: like how older you're right? Three? Are they going to
Speaker 1: know who's amez? Is? They know mo Wanna? That's about it.
Speaker 1: That's Jojo seems to be like the new budding pop
Speaker 1: star of the like past, whatever is after Zoomers, that's us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot that name. Yeah, they switched it too and so,
Speaker 1: but now there's Zumors because humors are are like fighting
Speaker 1: with boomers, right, we needed that rhyme, so zoomer. I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say they switched it to
Speaker 1: Zoomers because of Jabuki and he. Anytime I think of
Speaker 1: Generation Z, I think of him. He's like the generation
Speaker 1: right below us. Yeah, he represents he's their spokesperson. He's
Speaker 1: going to be where we are on the millennial spectrum
Speaker 1: in a few years because we're old millennials, like you know, no,
Speaker 1: we're younger millennial because millennials go you and I or
Speaker 1: we're mid millennials. I'm old millennial. I'm like, I'm like
Speaker 1: at that time, I'm like like kind of on the
Speaker 1: cost of Gen X and ben millennial. I won't say
Speaker 1: we're on the cusps to never ever deals too much
Speaker 1: but the cost somewhere on the cousp oh Man. Well,
Speaker 1: you know we always start our pod talking about what
Speaker 1: we're geeking out about this week. Uh, you know about
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well it kind of hinted at it
Speaker 1: a week before, but now you can officially watch it.
Speaker 1: It's the Casta Grandes. It is on Nickelodeon. Um, please
Speaker 1: go check it out. I just want as many eyeballs
Speaker 1: on this show because it really helps us continue to
Speaker 1: tell them that, you know, we are an audience. We
Speaker 1: are watching a lot of Latin X stories. Also says Monos,
Speaker 1: which I talked about. I can't remember if I talked
Speaker 1: about on this podcast, but I definitely tweeted about it. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is an original anime by Viz and it is Mexican,
Speaker 1: so it follows three orphans in nineteen seventies Mexico. Danny
Speaker 1: Trejo is in it, our friend Johnny Cruise is in it. Also,
Speaker 1: my culture is in it. It's really cool. It's super brutal.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a new horror anime, it definitely
Speaker 1: has a lot of horror supernatural elements to it, so
Speaker 1: check it out. Both of those things rapper stories. I
Speaker 1: think today even though this is a week in advance,
Speaker 1: but today was the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month,
Speaker 1: so how to rep how to rep? Yeah, And for me,
Speaker 1: it's a new game by five or five Games called Indivisible,
Speaker 1: which is a it's like a cool new take. It's
Speaker 1: like a part platform or part RPG. It's very fun
Speaker 1: to play. Appellated on stream earlier this week. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the it uses like gorgeous two D graphics mixed with like,
Speaker 1: um like three D graphics, and the like lead character
Speaker 1: it seems like she's some type of South Asian. She
Speaker 1: definitely sounds like she has an Indian accent. The names
Speaker 1: sound very like Indian. So that's real cool, very diverse
Speaker 1: right off the start, uh, and all these cool characters,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm only at the tip of the
Speaker 1: iceberg of the game. But it's super fun Indivisible. It's
Speaker 1: out now fairly cheap too, so check that out. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: guess for me kind of like easing into like the
Speaker 1: Halloween spirit. I just finished a novel I really loved
Speaker 1: called My Best Friends Exorcism Um. It was written by
Speaker 1: Grady Hendricks, who, like I think, a couple of years prior,
Speaker 1: had a big hit with a book called Um Horror Store.
Speaker 1: It was like a horror story. It's like a haunted
Speaker 1: house and an ikea that was very fun. But this
Speaker 1: is a it's the story of like, uh, two high
Speaker 1: school girls in like late eighties North Carolina who are
Speaker 1: like really tight and then one of them gets possessed
Speaker 1: by the devil and um, it's it's it sounds very
Speaker 1: like kind of like hokey and b great horror going
Speaker 1: into it, but it's like it ends in this very
Speaker 1: like it becomes and and ends as this very like
Speaker 1: surprisingly moving and trip you to like the strength of
Speaker 1: female friendship and how that is kind of what you know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that kind of is able to well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it, but like it's kind
Speaker 1: of lesser. It's an extortent story that's really about relying
Speaker 1: less on like the power of religion in Christ and
Speaker 1: more on like the personal bond these two girls have.
Speaker 1: It's like surprisingly moving and like I and all at
Speaker 1: the same time being like a very like gross like
Speaker 1: a fun gross out horror story. So recommend that if
Speaker 1: you want to get some like fun light Halloween reading.
Speaker 1: And I highly recommend my best friend's Exorcism and so
Speaker 1: cool in the Horror Store sounds really funny. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really clever author. It's a he's a I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. Um and I think I think Horror Store
Speaker 1: got like bought it to be. It's was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a movie. But that's so funny. I think it's Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a movie. I want to see horror movie.
Speaker 1: And an Ike Yeah yeah yeah, Um, well we are
Speaker 1: talking about something a other horror related yeah, and also
Speaker 1: semi retail related. Yeah, very retail. Yeah, it's like Mattel yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that is Child's Play, Jonah. I just wanted to know,
Speaker 1: like you are. We were asking people like what is
Speaker 1: their horror thing, you know, out of our friends, and
Speaker 1: you immediately said Child's Play? What like gravitated you towards it? Well,
Speaker 1: I say my, like, uh like my my, the story
Speaker 1: of my love affair with the Child's Play franchise or
Speaker 1: I guess the Chucky franchise, because they kind of like
Speaker 1: split into two different things. Um, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: in two parts, like one is just like it was
Speaker 1: something I watched a lot as a kid. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a horror franchise. It was just like on
Speaker 1: all the time when I was a kid, and I
Speaker 1: just really enjoyed them um as like good fun, like
Speaker 1: scary experiences. I think Chucky is maybe like the best
Speaker 1: of like the eighties Slashers. I think he like holds
Speaker 1: up the best um out of like that whole crew
Speaker 1: of like Freddie and Jason and Pinhead Um. I would
Speaker 1: I would say, I say, I'd say that, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna make that bold of acclaim Chucky chucking
Speaker 1: my face, Chucky guy stand Chucky, Like I feel like
Speaker 1: we need to have people repping each We'll have to
Speaker 1: do that for a episode. So funny because since I've
Speaker 1: been doing like the thirsty horror tweets, I've been researching
Speaker 1: a lot of horror film films, and like the joke
Speaker 1: I did today is kind of a deep cut that
Speaker 1: I think no one's gonna get. But the joke of
Speaker 1: it is the kind of like bad writing of this.
Speaker 1: And it's Um from hell Raiser and it's the female
Speaker 1: sena Byte whose name is female and just the female
Speaker 1: that's the name, and so like the joke of it
Speaker 1: is like she's like, you don't even know my name,
Speaker 1: And it was like I thought your name was female
Speaker 1: Seno Bite and there's and I was in the wiki
Speaker 1: and they're like for the female Sena Byte in um
Speaker 1: hell Raiser something like oh the revel of Revelation or something,
Speaker 1: click this and I clicked this, and it's another female
Speaker 1: Sena Bte whose name is just female and so so
Speaker 1: there's two characters and that's like that's the name. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you have like the chatter like a chatter butter ball.
Speaker 1: Everyone has a name except for this female Cena. It's
Speaker 1: very weird c D the center bite with CDs in
Speaker 1: his head. Yeah yeah, um yeah. They all have very
Speaker 1: distinct like cool personalities and the female just the female. Um.
Speaker 1: But um. But then I'd say, like I recently gravitated
Speaker 1: back towards like The Child's Play a franchise because um,
Speaker 1: and this is something I didn't know growing up, but like, uh,
Speaker 1: the Child's Play was the original The first script was
Speaker 1: written by a mandate on Don Mancini, who like who
Speaker 1: since pretty much like the first movie came out in
Speaker 1: the eighties, he's been like an out like gay man um.
Speaker 1: And I'd say, as the franchise has progressed, like he's
Speaker 1: he's been like like injecting more and more like queer
Speaker 1: characters and queer themes into the films um some like
Speaker 1: you know, and sometimes I will admit in like kind
Speaker 1: of like messy, not the most like you know, the
Speaker 1: messy kind of the best way he could at the time.
Speaker 1: But I still think it's fascinating to like kind of
Speaker 1: creators stay with a franchise that long because he's been
Speaker 1: with all of them except this most recently Boot, and
Speaker 1: like allowing himself to kind of like inject more and
Speaker 1: more of like you know, his queer identity and just
Speaker 1: like overall the things things that matter to him, like
Speaker 1: into the franchise where and like you know, the like
Speaker 1: the franchise has even become like pret like trans inclusive
Speaker 1: or at least attempting to like like through the guys
Speaker 1: of like you know this like or through the filter
Speaker 1: of this like Killer Doll like talk about things like
Speaker 1: gender fluidity and um, you know, being true to ourselves.
Speaker 1: Are are like ourselves and like what bodies do we
Speaker 1: belong in? Um? Like I said, it can be messy
Speaker 1: and and you know not that maybe the best discussion
Speaker 1: of it in cinema, but I still love that it's there,
Speaker 1: and I still love that. It's it's something that's like
Speaker 1: I feel like it's almost like as I have kind
Speaker 1: of come into my own core identity. It's a franchise
Speaker 1: that I love has also done that. That's something I
Speaker 1: had to are. Do you see that Child's Play is
Speaker 1: your favorite out of all of them the nineteen eight film, Yes,
Speaker 1: I would say definitely. I think there might be like
Speaker 1: there's like a few front like you know, there are
Speaker 1: a few Nightmaring on Elm Streets. I really love, like
Speaker 1: Nightmaring Realm Street three I think is really fantastic. UM.
Speaker 1: But and like I have a weird like soft spot
Speaker 1: for the Hell Raising Movies two just because they're so bizarre.
Speaker 1: But like, I think Child's Play UM is just in
Speaker 1: all respects kind of like just holds up best as
Speaker 1: a franchise. I think it's like just from a story's
Speaker 1: telling telling standpoint, it's like evolved and kind of like
Speaker 1: change and that's always kept it interesting. Um. Chucky has
Speaker 1: remained I think, like a fun interesting character. Like I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he kind of went through the same evolution
Speaker 1: that like Freddie did, going from like just villain to
Speaker 1: kind of like the comedic centerpiece of these films. But
Speaker 1: like I feel like Chucky like survive that uh that
Speaker 1: evolution a little better and that he can like you
Speaker 1: know he I think he straddles the line better between
Speaker 1: being like scared, between being scary and funny, where it's
Speaker 1: like Freddie just kind of became a like you know,
Speaker 1: like a late I talked to your home like happens
Speaker 1: to kill his guests. Um so yeah, so and and
Speaker 1: you know, I still go back and I like watching
Speaker 1: that first Child to play like I was. I tried
Speaker 1: to rewatch many of them, and I could go building
Speaker 1: up to this because you know it's Halloween, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is gonna be my Halloween rewatch for
Speaker 1: the year, and like the first one is like legit
Speaker 1: still like legit scary, like it's it. I you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like part of it is just because like Chucky,
Speaker 1: like Chuck, he's like a like just like jump scare
Speaker 1: in like personified, like because like pops out of places.
Speaker 1: And even when he's on screen, he's not doing anything
Speaker 1: like you're just like I know you're gonna do something,
Speaker 1: you know, You're like I know, yeah, so so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd say it's still it's my favorite of of all
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, So just hopping into Child's Play. It
Speaker 1: was released November nine and it was directed by Tom Holland,
Speaker 1: and I was so funny. I thought I shared my
Speaker 1: name with someone, but that to me is hilarious. For
Speaker 1: those keeping count, that is nine months this world you
Speaker 1: don't even care about me. Also being in that year,
Speaker 1: I I did the Math for my birthday and I
Speaker 1: was going to do yours next. Along with the film
Speaker 1: gaining a cult following immediately, that's pretty cool. Um, the
Speaker 1: box office success, bond of media franchise that include a
Speaker 1: series of six sequels, merchandise, comic books. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: of course the remake in twenty nineteen. So for people
Speaker 1: that haven't seen it, can you just go over? Kind
Speaker 1: of like the the big points of the film, the
Speaker 1: Child's Play one, Um, there is we open on it's
Speaker 1: a dark and stormy night over the Chicago river front, um,
Speaker 1: like you know, and there's a big abandoned ware high
Speaker 1: house where well we open on a shootout. Um. Charles
Speaker 1: Charles Lee Ray, the Lake Shore Strangler, UH, is running
Speaker 1: from the cops, he gets shot, he goes in this
Speaker 1: where oh this toy star because you know, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that the Chicago riverfront is full of toy stars. Um.
Speaker 1: Uh puts his soul into the body of a good
Speaker 1: guy doll, which is pretty much a pair like, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a parody of Uh. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember my Buddy dolls, but yeah, it's a pretty direct
Speaker 1: parody of like the my Buddy doll, which was like
Speaker 1: a big thing in the eighties. Um, you had my
Speaker 1: buddies and then if you were a girl, you got
Speaker 1: like a kid sister. But anyways, Um, he puts his
Speaker 1: body into the soul of this doll through the vood.
Speaker 1: Through voodoo, the doll gets gifted this small boy, uh,
Speaker 1: this little boy Andy for his eighth birthday. Um. And
Speaker 1: Chucky starts killing people. Uh. In the in the body
Speaker 1: of the dollar he Charles Lee Ray uh said tells
Speaker 1: Andy that his name is Chucky. Um. He starts killing people. Uh.
Speaker 1: Andy cannot convince anyone that his dolls alive except his mom.
Speaker 1: His mom like starts to believe him, um, but the
Speaker 1: cop on the case played by Chris Randon doesn't until
Speaker 1: Chuckie tries to kill him too. Basically, it's like a
Speaker 1: raise against time because the at least at this point
Speaker 1: in the franchise, is the way the way voodoo rule
Speaker 1: his work is that uh if so you pass your
Speaker 1: body into something and then the first person you like
Speaker 1: tell like, hey, like I am actually this guy like
Speaker 1: I with the first person that he would say like, hey,
Speaker 1: my name is Charles Lee Ray too. That's the only
Speaker 1: human body he could transfer his soul into for some reason.
Speaker 1: Um so so uh yeah so he so now and
Speaker 1: he's the only person that he can transfer a soul into.
Speaker 1: Um and uh yeah. It ends with this like very
Speaker 1: fun like he kills a bunch of people and with
Speaker 1: very fun like scary um where like kind of like
Speaker 1: one of those like you keep thinking he's dead, but
Speaker 1: he keeps coming back in like continuously more like burnt
Speaker 1: degraded forms um until his mom like shoots it in
Speaker 1: the face. And that's like most of Child's play. That's
Speaker 1: child play? Is that a good rundown? Yes? Yeah, perfect one?
Speaker 1: And then the sequel is where it takes place in
Speaker 1: that r OTC camp. Right, No, that's the that's child
Speaker 1: play three so many which which one is the child's
Speaker 1: play too? Child's play too is uh, it's kind of
Speaker 1: as you know, and he's now in a foster home.
Speaker 1: His mom is is in a never see a mental
Speaker 1: in terminators. Yes, although we never we never we never
Speaker 1: never seen. Oh, the mom is just gone. She's just
Speaker 1: because people don't believe her. Yes, she she stood by
Speaker 1: her son like and said like, yes, this doll was
Speaker 1: trying to kill people. And everyone was like alright, and
Speaker 1: then like the sun is safe but you yeah, yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: he's taken to a foster home. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit the same movie over again. He gets a
Speaker 1: he gets new foster parents at Chucky kills Uh. He
Speaker 1: goes to school. But my favorite thing about this movie
Speaker 1: is that, like in this one, Andy's like attitude has
Speaker 1: just changed, Like he's very like defeated. He's just like Chuck,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get me. Like he's not very defiant. Um,
Speaker 1: he's like like no child like like but Chucky kills
Speaker 1: his his teacher before. Like another good seeing that movie
Speaker 1: is Chucky is like Andy's in school and then Chucky
Speaker 1: like takes his test and writes on it like and
Speaker 1: it turns into the teacher and the teachers like why
Speaker 1: you're you're in detention. It's like I don't even see
Speaker 1: how that served like chucky. He was like, I'm just
Speaker 1: sing this it was such a big deal when I
Speaker 1: was a little like yeah, and I would I could
Speaker 1: only see like the edited versions on TV, so like
Speaker 1: they never showed what he wrote. So he just like
Speaker 1: the teacher, was like freaking out about something crazy. Chuck.
Speaker 1: He wrote on that test, I know, I love the
Speaker 1: people who have only seen the edited version of The
Speaker 1: Big Lebowski and thinks the line is find a stranger
Speaker 1: in the Alps. But the reason I brought up Child's
Speaker 1: Play three is because the one thing, because we're talking
Speaker 1: about how like it is so scary and reevented, is
Speaker 1: that r OTC scene where he switches it with live.
Speaker 1: Amm O, such a fear of my words, like oh no,
Speaker 1: yeah we're using fake guns, but like what if they
Speaker 1: they did switch it to live and yes, yes that
Speaker 1: is a good scene. Yeah, just to wrap a child play. Oh,
Speaker 1: he gets a he gets a cool like foster sister
Speaker 1: this girl um uh Kyle um, She's like he's protecting
Speaker 1: this one. It ends in a big like, it ends
Speaker 1: in a big finale in the in the good Guy factory. Um.
Speaker 1: And there's some cool there's that's probably that's probably my
Speaker 1: favorite finale of the of my favorite finale of the series.
Speaker 1: It ends in this big, like almost like Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: ish sized factory and like Chucky gets like covered in
Speaker 1: like molten plastic and like a ton of body parts,
Speaker 1: like extra body parts attached to him before he's like
Speaker 1: blown up with an air hose. Uh. Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 1: This wasn't the fan death yet. No, No, this fan
Speaker 1: death is uh fan death is three. Well, fan death
Speaker 1: is such a big deal because that's why the next
Speaker 1: one he's all stitched up. Yes, and that was when
Speaker 1: he went from like kind of scary to like terrifying
Speaker 1: to me. Yes, oh you got more scared from stitch
Speaker 1: face Chuck, which is an official Is that the community
Speaker 1: called stitch face Chucky? Yes, because that's also the one
Speaker 1: where they get like it gets like more like cantic. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guess that's Bright of Chucky's Bright Chuck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're going to hop into Bright of Chucky right
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Speaker 1: show and we're back. I hope you enjoyed those messages.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Child's Play. Nanny's here and so is Joan,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna wrap up Child's Play three and then
Speaker 1: get into Bright of Choke here. Oh yeah, Child's Play
Speaker 1: three and that Uh, there's a there's a fair next
Speaker 1: to the military school. It ends with oh, Chucky's in
Speaker 1: a new body in this one, so he's he there's
Speaker 1: a new kid that he can put his his soul into.
Speaker 1: So Andy has to say that kid, this kid Tyler
Speaker 1: from getting his body body taken over by Chucky. It
Speaker 1: ends with him getting yes, as you said, he gets
Speaker 1: I can't like, I can't remember what the fan was
Speaker 1: attached to. I can picture very closely. I can picture
Speaker 1: that scene of him like falling into a fan. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those Carnival fans that they have.
Speaker 1: You know, it's Rove and Border running the carnival and
Speaker 1: Chuck he's all chopped up and we won't see him
Speaker 1: again until Yeah, I know that's yeah, that's seven years later.
Speaker 1: But the interesting thing about that is that like there
Speaker 1: is like, even though think it was like Child's Play
Speaker 1: two comes out in ninety and Child's Play one comes
Speaker 1: out in three comes out of ninety one, they leaped
Speaker 1: forward like eight years, so technically that movie is taking
Speaker 1: place in ninety eight. So like the it's like it's
Speaker 1: a Tokyo drift style thing where the franchise does catch
Speaker 1: up with its time. John, Yes, yes, So jumping ten
Speaker 1: years from the original Child's Play, we have the bride
Speaker 1: of Chucky um and if he and I at the break,
Speaker 1: we're just geeking out about Jennifer Tilly, who we love.
Speaker 1: It was a big crush. Oh yeah, just even the
Speaker 1: doll version. I was so in love if he was like,
Speaker 1: yeah that doll want that? Yeah she I believe that
Speaker 1: doll was like model, like they model that doll after
Speaker 1: Jennifer Tilly. So yeah, so can you tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about Tiffany. Tiffany is uh ex girlfriend of
Speaker 1: Chucky's that we we've never heard of before. Um but
Speaker 1: she um, she steal um the remains of Chucky from
Speaker 1: a cop, stitches him back together. Um. And then and
Speaker 1: then she condulso she she can sell the book called
Speaker 1: Voodoo for Dummy Voodoos for Dummies, um to h to
Speaker 1: bring him back to life. And um, yeah she her
Speaker 1: intention is to get Chucky's so into the body of
Speaker 1: another human than Marryam. But they have they have a
Speaker 1: little bit of fight. Chucky kills her and then puts
Speaker 1: her body into a doll, into one of her She
Speaker 1: has a very extensive doll collection. She's into dolls, which
Speaker 1: is like, well, you know, she's super into dolls, so like,
Speaker 1: you know, why not just stick with your doll boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to put him into the body
Speaker 1: of another dude? But yeah, Jennifer Tilly amazing in human
Speaker 1: or doll form. Also, if you don't remember, one of
Speaker 1: her neighbors with Katherine Heigel is in it. Yes, Katherine
Speaker 1: Heigel is the Katherine Tigel is the like the girlfriend
Speaker 1: girlfriend of the bull who lives in the trailer park. Yes,
Speaker 1: um yes, Also chief Warren Kincaid is John Ritter, yes, um,
Speaker 1: alexis um cat is in it as um. The person
Speaker 1: that Tiffany is is seen before Chucky Chucky re enters
Speaker 1: her life. And this one, yeah, this one was like
Speaker 1: way more comedic. This was This is when we got
Speaker 1: full like goofy Chucky. But it's still had like some
Speaker 1: dark moments throughout it. Yes, yeah with the one where
Speaker 1: we found out that Chucky is in fact atomically correct
Speaker 1: because there is a full doll doll sex scene. Yes,
Speaker 1: they totally forgot about that, yes, yes um um yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's about how the other the other new thing
Speaker 1: we didn't we've never heard of is that they're like
Speaker 1: Chucky's human body was buried with an amulet that I
Speaker 1: guess like now that amulet, if they get that amulet,
Speaker 1: they can possess anyone they want. Uh, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: so they they they kidnapped this couple um uh Katherine
Speaker 1: Heigel and young Kavin Higel and her boyfriend who I
Speaker 1: don't know who it was played by. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: you know it was played by Nick Stable our faith Yeah,
Speaker 1: known from such things as uh Santa Junr Descendant, but
Speaker 1: not just Descendant, not The Descendants, not the outstander pain
Speaker 1: film or the hit Disney Channel musicals. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I did want to say that there was a chain
Speaker 1: back in the nineties called the Good Guys, and they
Speaker 1: actually thought about changing their name because because of Chucky.
Speaker 1: That's really funny, I would sailing into it. Yeah, totally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think they were getting a lot of like
Speaker 1: prank calls and people like harassing them. My brothers and
Speaker 1: I used to do that. We thought we were funny.
Speaker 1: We would call like the in Sync fan club or
Speaker 1: whatever those guys had, those people, Yeah, frank fans did
Speaker 1: you call it? Like? I was Backstreet Boys, But then
Speaker 1: they switched to in sc like eventually, but because Backstreet
Speaker 1: Boys kind of just like weren't shelling out as much.
Speaker 1: I think, like put that sounds bad, but whatever, Remember
Speaker 1: Instinct got some like Showtime or HBO like special that
Speaker 1: they did, and I remember watching that. I was just
Speaker 1: I was all Spice girls at that time, girls too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then they kind of broke up. They did break up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still still yeah yeah yeah. Um, I mean
Speaker 1: I like I like the occasional like everybody or or
Speaker 1: um that's the only time I was gonna think of,
Speaker 1: but no Spice Spice Girl. At that time, Spice Girls
Speaker 1: was was my dominated, my dominated, my hit clicks. Um,
Speaker 1: that's whether things are called right, hit clicks. Yes, you
Speaker 1: get them at like McDonald's. They're like a little disk,
Speaker 1: like a little fake floppy disk that you could listen
Speaker 1: to music off of anyways, Child Clay Child's play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember they are we talking the mini disc or
Speaker 1: the clip disc the clip disk? Yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: when you bought the um Spice Girls like lollipops, they
Speaker 1: came with a clip discs clip discs. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta enunciate, yes, yeah, yeah. It ends with Yeah, it
Speaker 1: ends with Chucky and Tiffany being defeated in a graveyard,
Speaker 1: but not before Tiffany gives birth to a little like
Speaker 1: mutant dolly thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, that means, yeah, trying
Speaker 1: to do the science of this, well, I do think,
Speaker 1: Like in two, I think is when we find out
Speaker 1: that like Chucky like slowly becomes the longer he's in
Speaker 1: a body, this he slowly becomes human, And I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know what the rules are. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: like when he's an original human he can transfer his
Speaker 1: soul into anything. But like once he turns in full
Speaker 1: it Chucky, once he's he's Chucky is full human. He
Speaker 1: can't transfer to say, I don't know that you know
Speaker 1: my vodous because they already used all that magic to
Speaker 1: tournament the human. They can't do it. Yeah, there's only
Speaker 1: every every everybody only comes with so much voodoo magic
Speaker 1: you don't get to it doesn't get replenished. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how Brian Chucky is. Well. Uh. I was going
Speaker 1: to say that Don Mancini, who wrote it, wrote all
Speaker 1: of these like you were saying, he originally wanted to
Speaker 1: have multiple Chucky's yes and um and so pitch that
Speaker 1: I think for Child's Play three and they ended up
Speaker 1: using that twenty plus years later for a Cult of Chuck. Yes. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's just you know, hold onto those ideas. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I definitely want to talk about because there
Speaker 1: there was some drama with the reboot, but we'll get
Speaker 1: into that when we get to the reboot. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: now we're on the seed of Chucky, which is I
Speaker 1: love I love ce. Chucky is a massive a movie,
Speaker 1: but I love it. Um. It's about um, it's we
Speaker 1: we catch up with Chucky and Tiffany's offspring. Um, and
Speaker 1: there Glenn is like kind of in Glenn slash Glenda.
Speaker 1: They're kind of in a Pinocchio situation where an evil
Speaker 1: puppeteer is is has captured them and it's putting pretty
Speaker 1: on show like this' very like Chris angelized Cventrol question
Speaker 1: is doing shows with them in uh London, but they
Speaker 1: see their parents. They're making like Hollywood is making like
Speaker 1: a Bride of Chucky movie with its starring the actual
Speaker 1: Jennifer Tilly. Uh. Glenn slash Glenda sees this on the
Speaker 1: TV and it's like, oh, those are my parents. I
Speaker 1: have to go find them. Um and uh he takes
Speaker 1: off or they take they take off for um they
Speaker 1: take off for America and we don't know how they
Speaker 1: get on a plane. They just do it. Um and
Speaker 1: yeah there they in baby for him this whole time. No,
Speaker 1: they are like, uh pretty, They're like like like maybe
Speaker 1: like if in doll ages, I would assume they are
Speaker 1: like what they look like. General Levin, As far as
Speaker 1: these go, how would you like? Is this one that
Speaker 1: people love? I mean, I feel like you know the
Speaker 1: community better than us. I do think like this one
Speaker 1: is one of the this is one of the few
Speaker 1: that like I think only two of them kind of
Speaker 1: bombed and child Child's Play three and this one kind
Speaker 1: of bomb and I just don't I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it deals with some pretty like you know what at
Speaker 1: the time was some like you know, unusual stuff for
Speaker 1: I mean, for now now it's like pretty unusual, like
Speaker 1: you know, to see like a movie of that scale
Speaker 1: kind of dealing with you know, like the kind of
Speaker 1: the conceit of the film is that, uh, Glenn slash
Speaker 1: Glenda is born without like is born not untomicly correct.
Speaker 1: They are born with like you know, what would be
Speaker 1: described as like Barbie r Ken type parts. So so
Speaker 1: Chucky and Tiffany gettingto a basically get into a fight
Speaker 1: over like is are they are they a boy or girl?
Speaker 1: And they both like fight. They're both kind of like
Speaker 1: competing to raise them the way they say they they
Speaker 1: think the child should be raised. Um. And so when
Speaker 1: it's so at times they are Glen and at times
Speaker 1: they are Glenda. Um. And uh. Also it should be
Speaker 1: like important important fact like Jennifer Tilly is playing Jennifer
Speaker 1: Tilly in this movie, who's she's trying to get in
Speaker 1: a movie. She's trying to get into the the Rapper.
Speaker 1: Redman is directing a like the story of the Virgin Mary.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Tilly really wants to be in this movie, so
Speaker 1: that's a big part of the storyline. Fun fact about
Speaker 1: that is that Don Mancini wrote that part for Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be which you know, uh no shade
Speaker 1: on Redman's directing skills, but that makes a like makes
Speaker 1: a little more sense. Um and but Tarantino refused to
Speaker 1: do it, which I think it's like you did little,
Speaker 1: you did a little Nikki, you can't do it checking
Speaker 1: come on, yeah yeah, so um so, uh so yeah
Speaker 1: so uh so back to what but we're saying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the movie was not a success. I think it was,
Speaker 1: but I think the community is really warm to it, specifically,
Speaker 1: especially like I think parts of the kind of there
Speaker 1: is a like a big subculture of like are a
Speaker 1: big like subject culture of like you know, queer horror fans.
Speaker 1: So I think have like really embraced this. Uh do
Speaker 1: you know there's a drag queen in San Francisco, or
Speaker 1: primarily in San Francisco called Peaches Christ and she does
Speaker 1: this like movie series called uh that they tend to
Speaker 1: be like there's a drag show and then a movie
Speaker 1: or and then the drag show is based on the movie. Um,
Speaker 1: and she's a big she I think. I know, she's
Speaker 1: like a big lover of Seed of Chucky. They did,
Speaker 1: like they just did a couple of years ago, they
Speaker 1: did a revival of it where she did on this
Speaker 1: show based on the movie. So like, I think it's
Speaker 1: something that has uh kind of caught on later on
Speaker 1: and especially like been embraced by this like this like
Speaker 1: small like sub community of the horror community. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely remember that. I did watch this because Glenn's
Speaker 1: face is a face you can't for me. And also
Speaker 1: I remember Glenn has been in a few memes. Uh,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I definitely remember, but I just can't remember.
Speaker 1: It was one of those that kind of came through me.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's yeah, you don't really rewatching it. I forgot
Speaker 1: that the movie literally opened with uh with like come
Speaker 1: maccovery and like come oozing down the screen. C. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like but I I um, it's a yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a hard movie to forget. But um, I mean and
Speaker 1: I sometimes with stress is that you know, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, the movie does also like fall into some
Speaker 1: of the you know words tropes about that we see
Speaker 1: about like trans or gender non binary people in horror movies.
Speaker 1: You know, um it kind of like eventually it presents
Speaker 1: Glenn like it's it kind of presents them as a
Speaker 1: person with like kind of like a split personality disorder,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like a aggressive way horror films
Speaker 1: that have tended to like to de pick like gender fluidity,
Speaker 1: like you know, going back to like to like even
Speaker 1: things like Psycho or that to Palma film, um Um
Speaker 1: Dressed to Kill. But it is but at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, like I I like it for what it is.
Speaker 1: It was a movie that like faced a lot of
Speaker 1: uphill battles with what it couldn't couldn't do based on
Speaker 1: like what the studio is allowing. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, I am a big believer in you know,
Speaker 1: you know, even like even if it's not the best representation,
Speaker 1: it was still like, you know, representation of you know,
Speaker 1: my community of like the way I saw myself in
Speaker 1: a genre I love, in a franchise I love, So
Speaker 1: you know, I that's not to say that, like we
Speaker 1: don't like acknowledge and d and like deal with the
Speaker 1: problematic parts of it, but we also like, I also
Speaker 1: like love that it's that it exists, and you know,
Speaker 1: Glenn slash Glenda is still a character. You know that
Speaker 1: I that that that I love and speaks to me
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, just despite their their issues. So we're
Speaker 1: moving on to the Curse of Chucky, which just I
Speaker 1: mean that sounds like that could have just been the
Speaker 1: name for all of the Yeah, I was wondering why
Speaker 1: I didn't see this one, but this one was direct
Speaker 1: to video yeh, the next two or direct to video.
Speaker 1: Cursive Chucky is a cursive Chucky was like dominancene E
Speaker 1: being like because I think, like the this is like
Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen, right, and like them, the franchise had
Speaker 1: kind of been in like limbo um and I know
Speaker 1: even he at one point was like, maybe we should
Speaker 1: reboot it um, but eventually he decided that, um, it
Speaker 1: was like, let's just like a back It's like it's
Speaker 1: a moving the same continuity, but it's like kind of
Speaker 1: like a back to basics, like scary like is Chucky
Speaker 1: alive or not? Type movie? Um, And that also introduces
Speaker 1: like kind of like the new protect like you know,
Speaker 1: protagonist of the series. Who's this woman named Nika. She's
Speaker 1: actually played by um Brad Durroff, the voice of Chucky.
Speaker 1: He's played by her daughter. Uh she's a uh she's paraplegic.
Speaker 1: I believe she's like she's like in a wheelchair. Um.
Speaker 1: And the movie is about kind of like her like family. Um,
Speaker 1: it's an all in one night movie. Uh. The mother
Speaker 1: is killed after this suspicious dollar has been uh male
Speaker 1: to their house. And it's kind of like a like
Speaker 1: a murder mystery of trying to figure out like who's
Speaker 1: doing this and like is Chucky really alive or not?
Speaker 1: And throughout like i'd say, for the first like so
Speaker 1: you know, three quarters of the movie, like it could
Speaker 1: just be like it just kind of plays as a
Speaker 1: potentially like a reboot, like you don't know if this
Speaker 1: is even in the same continuity. And then at the end,
Speaker 1: like there is a big reveal that this is the
Speaker 1: same continuity, Like Chucky takes off his like mask and
Speaker 1: he's still like stitch face Chucky underneath. Um and yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh that's yeah, it's it's I really like these
Speaker 1: last two, Like Curse of Chuck, he's like a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Just it's just like a good fun like
Speaker 1: scary like Studio Haunted House movie. I like this ending
Speaker 1: too because you know, spoiler, we're gonna spoil it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he ends up at because I guess, like part of
Speaker 1: the movies, he's being mailed places. Basically, yes, yes, we
Speaker 1: find out that he's okay. So end of really quick
Speaker 1: end of Seed of Chucky. Uh, Tiffany possesses the body
Speaker 1: of Jennifer Tilly. So now Tiffany is going around like
Speaker 1: as Jennifer Tilly in this reality. But she they are
Speaker 1: now like basically they're mailing Chucky to everyone who's ever
Speaker 1: like wronged him. And so next step on that next
Speaker 1: stop on that journey is like the is Andy if
Speaker 1: who from the first film and but and he's ready
Speaker 1: for him? Is Andy now an adult? Yes, it's Andy's
Speaker 1: an adult and it is the original act because they
Speaker 1: got a different they different actor who played Chucky in
Speaker 1: child Play three because they wanted Asian up to sixteen.
Speaker 1: But now it's they've returned to like the original actor
Speaker 1: who played him in child Play one and two, who's
Speaker 1: now like you know, aged up two. Is it like
Speaker 1: mid thirties I believe, and he or maybe even literally
Speaker 1: forties and now, Yes, it's that original. It's that original Andy.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Yeah. It ends with like like he's
Speaker 1: like and he's ready for him, he like shotgun blasts
Speaker 1: and right if he comes out of his box. I
Speaker 1: love that he's just moving around like Sisterhood of the
Speaker 1: Traveling Pants. Yes, yeah, just Spain shipped. We have to
Speaker 1: take another really quick break. We're going to hop into
Speaker 1: the rest of Chucky and the future of Chucky right
Speaker 1: after this and we're back. The last thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to say on the Curse of Chucky is that is
Speaker 1: when they had the Halloween Horror Knights Universal, they had
Speaker 1: a Chucky's fun House. Yes, um, which is where uh,
Speaker 1: Chucky's Fun House is like more directly taken from um.
Speaker 1: Like it was definitely there to sponsor because of Chucky,
Speaker 1: but the the attracting itself was more like in the
Speaker 1: in line with um the end of child Play three,
Speaker 1: because it was like a fun it was like a
Speaker 1: fun fair like environment. Um. Also, um, Yeah, Chucky has
Speaker 1: been a pretty constant presence at Halloween Horn. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: remember last year. Oh my gosh they you go. You
Speaker 1: went on their bus. Uh, They're like tram and it
Speaker 1: pulled up and they were like a thousand Chuck. It
Speaker 1: was all these Chucky's of all different heights and they
Speaker 1: would like come and start walking towards you. A couple
Speaker 1: a couple of years, a year or two before that,
Speaker 1: they did like it was Chucky's Terror Tram and it
Speaker 1: was like Chucky was like you were on the tram
Speaker 1: and Chucky was like kind of like a juggle like
Speaker 1: the Jungle Cruise House, like make cracking jokes, but also
Speaker 1: like like he killed he had killed the guy who
Speaker 1: was supposed to be giving it to our Um. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I also wanted to shout out to the puppeteers. We
Speaker 1: don't really think of them very off and it looks
Speaker 1: like on at least for the Curse of Chucky, there
Speaker 1: were one, two, three, four, five puppeteers. Um, so I
Speaker 1: assume on the other ones too that have like Bright
Speaker 1: of Chucky and um, the Seat of Chucky also have
Speaker 1: multiple Yeah. Um, they're putting in work make him look real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like uh, I mean even going back to the
Speaker 1: first one, like the reason I read some of the
Speaker 1: reason don Mancini like was like, I'm gonna write my
Speaker 1: Killer Donald movie now. Is because he saw Gremlin's and
Speaker 1: he was like, oh wow, Like puppeteering animatronics has evolved
Speaker 1: to the point that like you can do this and
Speaker 1: make it look like respectable and actually scary. Uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: so like it that's a that's it's like kind of
Speaker 1: the whole franchise in a way like was born of
Speaker 1: like oh, like the talent and skill of these puppeteers
Speaker 1: and Animatron and Animatronics have like evolved a point that
Speaker 1: like I can do this story now. Yeah, so or
Speaker 1: is it Cult of Chucky now or yeah now the
Speaker 1: second direct video film, Cult of Chucky, which was two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen. That's a date I want you a year
Speaker 1: I want you to remember because this is very important
Speaker 1: into where this is the discussion that's it's going to
Speaker 1: end up with. Okay, great, Yeah, So Curse of Chucky.
Speaker 1: We're following Nika again. She is in an insane asylum
Speaker 1: because she has also insisted that all these murders were
Speaker 1: there were because of a killer doll. But we're also
Speaker 1: kind of following this like other story, which is like
Speaker 1: um Andy has now like, uh, chop the head off
Speaker 1: of Chucky and is like torturing it, like he just
Speaker 1: keeps Chucky as like a victim, as like a torture
Speaker 1: victim that he just like he's just like driving nails
Speaker 1: and kidding it with a blowtorch constantly. But while we're
Speaker 1: that's happening. And also Nika is in this um uh
Speaker 1: insane asylum. Um, she is if someone males a Chucky
Speaker 1: doll there, And it seems like this Chucky is also
Speaker 1: killing is starting on a is starting a killing spree
Speaker 1: at the insane asylum. But it's like, how it could
Speaker 1: Chucky be with Andy but all so be in this
Speaker 1: asylum with Nika. And the answer is that we finally
Speaker 1: got to that Chucky has learned how to put his
Speaker 1: soul into multiple things. So now there are multiple Chucky's all,
Speaker 1: I guess, all of the country committing all all kinds
Speaker 1: of murders. Yes, um, and it ends with um. Also,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Tilly is back in this one too. She is um, um,
Speaker 1: you're just being Jennifer Tilly, I guess. But with the
Speaker 1: sliver killer it's killer doll and her um. That one
Speaker 1: ends with um. Chucky also possesses Nika. So now he's
Speaker 1: in the body of this is what he's kind of
Speaker 1: like taken over the body of this woman. Um. And
Speaker 1: now like it ends with like Nika Chucky, which is
Speaker 1: what the fans call her, Nika Chucky and Jennifer Tilly
Speaker 1: Tiffany meeting up and like it's implied that they are
Speaker 1: gonna be in a relationship. And like Chucky's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Chucky's comfortable in his like he's like, I
Speaker 1: like this new body, Like this feels this feels right. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's why. Yeah, which has like a trans icon Chucky. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they go off to commit more murders. Well there
Speaker 1: are still like several Chucky dolls all over the country
Speaker 1: of the world. Maybe. And um, also we get the
Speaker 1: reintroduction of Kyle the the um Kyle the foster sister
Speaker 1: from two is kind of brought at the very end
Speaker 1: just as a as a as a like credits cookie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she's back. The same actress came back for
Speaker 1: that too. So yeah, I like how they keep it
Speaker 1: like and they keep the franchise like in the family
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah. Also, I mean just think of
Speaker 1: like now we have Annabelle and we have like, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many things that he was. Chucky was our
Speaker 1: first possessed doll. Yeah. Yes, so the first the reason
Speaker 1: that you're so very important is because this was all
Speaker 1: news to me. So when the new Child's Play reboot
Speaker 1: was announced, it was a big controversy, not necessarily because
Speaker 1: it's a reboot, which at first I thought it was,
Speaker 1: but the Chucky community felt slighted because this was also
Speaker 1: being done without Donci, without Don Mancini. Apparently he didn't
Speaker 1: even know. Yeah, yeah, no broad deer off. I was
Speaker 1: told that at one point, and this might have been
Speaker 1: after the fan uproar. I read that, like Don mancin
Speaker 1: they offered Don Mancini like a producer credit, and he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want like just like a like
Speaker 1: a like okay, like get out of your credit. So
Speaker 1: he didn't take He didn't take it, Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: the thing, because he's written all of these up until
Speaker 1: this point, so yeah, it would be weird for him
Speaker 1: to just be a quote unquote producer and yeah and
Speaker 1: like and like that was when I kind of learned
Speaker 1: about these direct video ones. Was because people were like,
Speaker 1: the story is still going on? And the last one
Speaker 1: kind of ended on a cliffhanger, so it's weird to
Speaker 1: reboot it right now. Yeah, um supposedly, like uh, they
Speaker 1: were talking about this. I don't know where it is
Speaker 1: right now, but Sci Fi is doing like a Chucky,
Speaker 1: a Chucky series to con tinue that for that franchise,
Speaker 1: like now I believe, like I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is like the official classification, but I think the way
Speaker 1: fans kind of determined is that like that kind of
Speaker 1: the new continuity is like the Child's Play franchise at
Speaker 1: like the Bread Darroff ones, the don Nancini ones are
Speaker 1: like the Chucky franchise. What did you first left Starve?
Speaker 1: What did you think about the Child's Play reboot? I?
Speaker 1: I was definitely part of the Chucky community. That was
Speaker 1: like I was not I was not happy about it,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't like it seemed weird to do it
Speaker 1: without Bread Garraffe. And also like you know, just from
Speaker 1: a personal standpoint, like you know, I and not that
Speaker 1: I think this was like any of the thinking going
Speaker 1: into the reboot, but it was like, you know, like
Speaker 1: I like that child Play is a is a you know,
Speaker 1: franchise that has been like created and like kind of
Speaker 1: like controlled creatively by like like a queer creator for
Speaker 1: so long that like and there's I think I feel
Speaker 1: like there's so little of that in Hollywood that like
Speaker 1: taking it or you know, not so little, but you know,
Speaker 1: like at least in the horror world, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: but I did go to see it, and for honestly,
Speaker 1: like I because I think for legal reasons, it had
Speaker 1: to distinguish itself so much from like the France, from
Speaker 1: the other Chucky movies. Like I was told that Lee
Speaker 1: I had heard that legally, like they couldn't they just
Speaker 1: not only could they not use any of the existing
Speaker 1: like Chucky mythology, which is why I think they had
Speaker 1: to resort to the like Chucky is like an ai. Um,
Speaker 1: they couldn't like have any kills that like at all
Speaker 1: resembled anything from the other child's playing movies. So if
Speaker 1: like Chucky kills somebody with like a nail gun in
Speaker 1: a Chucky in in one of the other movies, um,
Speaker 1: like this Chucky could never like killing one with a
Speaker 1: nail gun. And so that like really like I think
Speaker 1: like made them force them to come up with some
Speaker 1: like creative kills. And there are some like really like
Speaker 1: there are some really like weird like just out like
Speaker 1: like crazy kills and those moves in that movie that
Speaker 1: I enjoy and also like uh Mark Hamill, you know
Speaker 1: kind of Braddorf Chucky is just like this insane like
Speaker 1: kind of like this insane killer. Uh Mark Hamill plays
Speaker 1: Chucky has kind of like like how like a how
Speaker 1: two thousand ask um, you know, in like in robot
Speaker 1: who like goes crazy specifically because like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this boy is his best friend and then the boy
Speaker 1: rejects him and he's like he's like a jealous boyfriend
Speaker 1: who wants his like his best friend back, um and um.
Speaker 1: So he plays it's a different slant on the character
Speaker 1: that I that I didn't hate. I enjoyed some of it.
Speaker 1: Let's realized. Yeah, it's not even like it's not a
Speaker 1: soul in the body, it's it's it is a robot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like an AI that gets corrupted and it's like
Speaker 1: it's it's like it's pretty dumb. Like is when you
Speaker 1: think about the fact that the reason Chucky can continue
Speaker 1: to go is because with the introduction of Ludo magic,
Speaker 1: you can always make your soul go. Yeah, if they
Speaker 1: kill this. There's no reason this other yeah, unless they
Speaker 1: like it's like that consciousness is up in the cloud
Speaker 1: or something like. It even opens with like the reason
Speaker 1: he gets like the AI gets corrupted is because like
Speaker 1: we open it like the factory they're building Chucky and
Speaker 1: this guy gets fired and he's like okay, and he
Speaker 1: like such like writes like coding into the doll, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you want to you're gonna fire me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put some evil code in this doll. Well,
Speaker 1: it seems like everyone kind of agree with you, because
Speaker 1: score wise, it has five point nine out of ten
Speaker 1: on IMDb, on Rotten Tomatoes, which is still technically fresh yeah,
Speaker 1: and forty percent on Metacritic. Uh uh. But it did
Speaker 1: make forty three million with a budget of ten millions,
Speaker 1: so we might this might not be the end of
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to continue that. But
Speaker 1: but I mean, like I I was, I'm a big
Speaker 1: follower of like horror Instagram, and prior to the movie
Speaker 1: coming out, there was just a lot of like we
Speaker 1: hate New Chucky, mean like lots of like being like
Speaker 1: people drawing like like um, you know, like old Chucky,
Speaker 1: like killing New Chucky, which I love, angsty like, and
Speaker 1: you know, now I think about it, like I should
Speaker 1: have some sympathy for this because like, because I was
Speaker 1: working on ThunderCats, I was definitely part of a franchise
Speaker 1: that like people were like no' like giving it no
Speaker 1: no credit, Like I no, I'm not gonna I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna like say I don't like this and never look
Speaker 1: at it. You know what. I did the same thing
Speaker 1: to Child's Play. I'm I'm part I'm I'm a part
Speaker 1: of the problem. But I did go see it and
Speaker 1: I didn't like, I didn't enjoy it, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the memes like those means kind of I think
Speaker 1: like the community was basically like, yeah, that's fine, we
Speaker 1: still like what we still want Old Chucky. But you know,
Speaker 1: this wasn't a bad movie. We had Aubrey Plaza who
Speaker 1: was in it, also Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, and
Speaker 1: of course Mark camel Plane. Chucky one thing that I
Speaker 1: thought was really funny. So it was released June one
Speaker 1: of this year, twenty nineteen. It was the same weekend
Speaker 1: that Toy Story was released, and they really capitalized on
Speaker 1: that because I don't know if you caught the posters were,
Speaker 1: which was fascinating. It showed Andy because they have they
Speaker 1: both have boys named Andy um and it was like
Speaker 1: dead Woody like it was just like his you know.
Speaker 1: They really the posters that they made were the same
Speaker 1: posters as the Toy Story ones, like same background and everything,
Speaker 1: but it was like of Chucky, like killing the toys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a little presumpould say, you know, I
Speaker 1: think liked Toy Story four for yeah, Story four probably
Speaker 1: made about like, like, you know, five million dollars more,
Speaker 1: but I still admire I did like those posters. That
Speaker 1: was fun. Yeah, I thought it was cute. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it seems like the future of the I guess
Speaker 1: we'll call it the Chucky franchise lies in sci fi,
Speaker 1: and the future of Child's Play probably lies in oryan
Speaker 1: pictures on what they decide to do. And there's a
Speaker 1: big I know, there's a big part of the community,
Speaker 1: not a big party. There's a small part of the
Speaker 1: community that really wants Chucky and Nika's body to Andy.
Speaker 1: So so I'm not a part of that community, but
Speaker 1: I know that's that's that's a thing people really some
Speaker 1: people really want. And by the way, just to answer
Speaker 1: your question, or not to answer your question, but to
Speaker 1: tack on when you said Chucky versus Toy Story, Toy
Speaker 1: Story four made one point zero fifty eight billion dollars
Speaker 1: versus Chucky's. Yeah, a lot going for it. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well,
Speaker 1: also we didn't really tackle this, but there was a
Speaker 1: huge controversy when Child's Play came out. There were parents protesting.
Speaker 1: In fact, they actually went to the studio to protest
Speaker 1: about it, which is so funny. It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the thing they would do now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I still have like one million moms and stuff.
Speaker 1: There's definitely like I feel like the eighties was a
Speaker 1: little bit of like the heyday of that. Like I
Speaker 1: remember like they're being like urban legends about like kids
Speaker 1: who like copy yeah, like blew up their cat in
Speaker 1: the microway, they have to seeing Gremlins, And I think
Speaker 1: all that was kind of just like hysteric, like hysteric
Speaker 1: like kind of like an offshoot of the Satanic panics.
Speaker 1: But I yeah, yeah, I don't know if any of
Speaker 1: that was like proven to be to be Chucky's fault.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean that's the thing is
Speaker 1: it's funny because like, yeah, the one that we see
Speaker 1: is in a December of four people tortured and kill
Speaker 1: sixeen year old Suzanne Kapper and were said to be
Speaker 1: influenced by the movies because during the torturing, the perpetrators
Speaker 1: taunted her by playing her a song which is high
Speaker 1: I'm chucky want to play, But that just could have
Speaker 1: been any song. Like, you can't take someone doing something
Speaker 1: heinous and then like an element of it blaming it
Speaker 1: on that instead of like, you know, the actual things.
Speaker 1: But we've learned many times and times again that people
Speaker 1: will blame anything like what's actually the problem? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's I don't know. I I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know enough about that particular story to
Speaker 1: like commented on fully. And I don't want to make
Speaker 1: light of you know this, regardless of you know, what
Speaker 1: encouraged it was, like it was a tragedy. But like
Speaker 1: I do because obviously, like I think, you know, movies
Speaker 1: and and video games that were like an easy escape
Speaker 1: go to not deal with real problem maybe real issues.
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