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Curse Of Chucky (2013)
Topic Started: Apr 5 2013, 06:31 AM (11,140 Views)
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Nica (Fiona Dourif) is grieving over the gruesome suicide of her mother when her domineering older sister Barb (Danielle Bisutti) arrives with her young family in tow to help settle their mother’s affairs. As the sisters butt heads over Nica’s plans for the future, Barb’s young daughter comforts herself with a grinning, red-haired talking doll named Chucky (voiced again by Brad Dourif) that recently arrived mysteriously in the mail. But as a string of brutal murders begins to terrorize the household, Nica suspects the doll may hold the key to the bloodshed. What she doesn’t know is that Chucky has a personal score to settle. He’s determined to finish a job he started more than 20 years earlier, and this time he’s going to see it through to the bloody and shocking end.
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This here turned out to be quite an enjoyable and exciting entry. One of the biggest issues for that is the rather gloomy atmosphere present here, as the house here is kept dark, moody and bathed in sporadic light from the continuous thunderstorm outside which results in a pronounced Gothic flavor that is quite adept in building a fantastic atmosphere throughout. This in turn manages to keep the tension up throughout as well, aided along by some wonderfully creepy suspense-filled stalking scenes and the decision to keep Chucky's life hidden from the almost everyone until their moment of death are great calls to make the creepy air to this one quite overwhelming. These then make the action-packed scenes in the later half all the more impressive as the build-up has given them a rather strong platform and greater impact when they do occur, as the final half is practically one long series of chases throughout the house, where the bedroom encounter, the garage trap and the final brawl in the living room are able to make the most of themselves. There's a few problems areas here, mainly the constant series of false endings that keep going long past their usefulness and drag out the film needlessly when one of the earlier endings worked well enough. As well, too many of the kills are done off-screen or in such darkness that it's really hard to get the full effect when there's such a low body-count that there's a missed opportunity to really make something worthwhile, but otherwise there's not a whole lot wrong with this one.
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I agree with you about the kills. Some were quite good but too many were offscreen and a couple of the ones we DID get to see just had a weird look to them. I'm glad you liked the overall look and feel of this since that's one of the strongest things about it, especially the house itself.
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Too true, a highly underrated effort that I really enjoyed.
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Rewatching this, and I forgot how iconic Barb is.
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Barb is amazing<3.

To be honest, most of the characters are at least decent. It's the weird backstory that hurts it for me. That and the fact that this really didnt need to be almost 100 minutes long. It couldve easily been as short as most of the other films and still worked.

I just really don't like the 'obsessed with families stuff' since it messes up the stuff with Tiffany. I can understand if this wanted to serve as "Childs Play 3/4" and totally ignore Bride Of Chucky and Seed Of Chucky but since Tiffany makes an appearance in this, it's not like we can just ignore those and pretend she didn't exist, that Charles never had a major love interest, etc. It's just weird.
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