This Doll Is A Menace

[@JamesVSCinema]

This film absolutely rocked..! What are your thoughts or favorite moments? Want to vote on what I should watch next? Click here! www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Have a great day!

[@jaremybill652]

@@JamesVSCinema Alex Vincent’s (Andy) acting during the scene when he’s locked in his room, calling out for help and crying is always a standout moment in this movie for me. I don’t have any kids, but man it is heartbreaking watching that kid cry like that.

[@philshifley9218]

My heart melts every time i see andy crying saying chuckys going to kill him. Unironically some of the best child acting ive ever seen

[@danwilliams2551]

It was probably best the series took on a lighter tone, watching a child act like he's genuinely getting traumatized wouldn't make these films nearly as fun

[@maxmccarty3131]

The reason Chucky is by far my favorite slasher franchise is that it's all been written by the same guy through the entire run (Don Mancini), and he's genuinely taken it to some bizarre places. There's camp, satire, classic horror throwback, straight comedy, and legit creepy haunted house mystery stuff in this franchise. The climax to number 2 is insane and gnarly, and the puppetwork throughout is legit incredible. Even the weaker entries still have something fun going on.

[@donna25871]

I will watch anything Brad Dourif is in. He is such a great actor.

[@botz77]

Oh, James. Please watch all of these movies, and the TV series. It's way better than it should be. It's also not about the scares, although this one and Curse of Chucky are pretty terrifying at times. I think you'd like this series far more than you could imagine. They're really fun.

[@JamesVSCinema]

That’s dope to hear!!

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Nah skip the series. I tried but after 1/2 through season 1 it became a very uncomfortable watch bc kids fucking around secually is not what tf I want to watch…

[@Ahluk1]

​@bradkirchhoff5703 teenagers being teenagers? How dare they! Also the show doesn't show any sex or nudity, so I was just enjoying the ride all the seasons delivered us.

[@steveforsyth7269]

Skip 3 and skip SEED

[@LoneCloudHopper]

@@steveforsyth7269 I don't remember 3 being bad. I agree with you on Seed of Chucky.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

"We're supposed to be friends til the end, remember? "This IS the end, friend" *proceeds to drop the match* That kid is a gangsta 😂

[@JamesVSCinema]

Bro is HIM.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

The scene where the mom realizes Chucky is alive is so well done. The way the tension got so real after the batteries fell on the floor..... 🥶

[@JamesVSCinema]

Great scene!

[@royperez6946]

I watched this as a kid in the 90s. It changes you. It. Changes. You.

[@steveforsyth7269]

Can't believe what a great bit of casting they got with this little boy. He is SUPER adorable and is able to carry large portions of the movie at a crazy young age!

[@likecrazyhorse]

The mom in this and the mom in Gremlins are straight-up end bosses.

[@cosmiceyness]

That painter you were talking about is Francisco de Goya

[@tetrasphere8165]

25:03 "you were my brother Chucky! I loved you"

[@slasha761]

I Laughed At The Title🤣🤣🤣🤣 "This Doll Is A Menace."🤣🤣🤣

[@JamesVSCinema]

On demon time for the entire film it’s incredible 😂

[@slasha761]

@@JamesVSCinema The one problem with this film is I wish the story wasn't in chronological order, and we learned later about how Chucky became a killer doll. I think it would of made it scarier. But either way Chucky will never be scary because he is so damn funny.

[@jaremybill652]

Oh man i really hope you go through the entire Child's Play franchise, it goes off the rails during Seed, then gets back to its roots in Curse, and completely goes wild during Cult. and the TV show is great too. and best part is: its all one story, same characters, same actors and crew and everything. Highly recommended.

[@JamesVSCinema]

That’s what I’ve been seeing from the recent comments!

[@jaremybill652]

@@JamesVSCinema for real man, Chucky really carved out a space in the horror zeitgeist as being one of, if not the most, consistent and cohesive horror franchises out there.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

The series is fucking disgusting and makes me think the creator is actually a predator…You like watching children do shit secually? F the series. It got cancelled for a reason…

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Sexually

[@djcantskate3883]

24:31 fr it’s so funny picturing serious actors standing still asf probably straight faced too just making the most random noises you’ve ever heard

[@JamesVSCinema]

I’m dead hahaha

[@marennicholson5444]

Andy crying is maybe one of the top ten child movie performance moments which is wild considering the context lol

[@Arsolon618]

What makes this movie great is the build up to the violent active, talking doll. Everything until then is more like the infamous Twilight Zone episode with the ventriloquist doll. If you haven't seen that episode of the original Twilight Zone, its called The Dummy, and it heavily influenced the first half of Child's Play.

[@steelbarber]

The scars became Chucky's signature look but he's always been creepiest at his base design imo.

[@queerlybelovdd]

fun fact: chris sarandon, who plays the detective, also did the speaking voice for jack skellington in the nightmare before christmas.

[@everyonelovesmajima]

Hi, I'm Chucky, and I wouldn't talk if I were you. Heidy-ho!

[@JamesVSCinema]

Calling the cops hahaha

[@ryansmith8102]

I'm one of these who was traumatized by Child's Play as a kid thanks to a neighborhood friend who was a few years older than me. I was only 7 whereas he was 11. His older sister would babysit us and she wasn't a great babysitter as we would watch any movies that they had. They had a lot of horror movies. This began my experience of horror movies in which I watched films like Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Hellraiser as well as several others to name some. I fell in love with Horror movies as a kid. My parents had no idea at all. Not until Child's Play. I didn't know what kind of horror movie I was going to watch and during this movie, I didn't finish it. Instead, I cried and ran back home across the street. My parents found out quite quickly. I was so terrified of Chucky that I even threw my younger brother's life sized dolls into the basement where I rarely went. I refused to go into Spencers at the Mall because they always had Chucky dolls. I also even avoided the horror section at Blockbuster simply because I did not want to accidentally see the cover of Chucky. That's how traumatized I was, and yet, I was fine watching other horror movies. I really grew up on a lot of other horror movies. It wasn't until around 7 years later or so, when I was just entering high school, that I finally got over it by watching the movie. It can be a goofy movie and I ended up loving it. Went on to watching all other Chucky movies, haha. Wild memories. Many years of nightmares. Love Chucky now, though.

[@eyesofblue86]

The artist who painted the walls of his home after his wife's death was Francisco Goya. Entertaining Reaction as always James 👍

[@sirlisterofsmeg333]

Brad Dourif the greatest character actor ever IMO. And every role I've seen him in, he gives 150% without hamming it up.

[@kaiitlynross]

i love the child’s play franchise! chucky is seriously an underrated horror character. he always used to freak me out the most too haha.

[@TheUnknownDungeon]

I remember when I was 5 or 6 and I was flipping through the channels on tv late at night after having a bad dream, and after channel surfing for awhile I went into the movie channels and the first thing I see and hear is Chucky's melted corpse saying "Hi I'm Chucky, wanna PLLLLLAAAAAAYYYYyyyy..." And I was freaked the hell out because I had zero context so I thought i was watching some kid looking being burning and melting and saying creepy shit. It was my first encounter with the fear of the unknown and it has stuck with me permanently.

[@reflixnmix1762]

I was lucky enough to see all the 80s movies in the theater ...this one was awesome!!!!

[@2044Nick]

Chucky was my favorite as a kid in the 90’s then instantly terrified after watching.I grew up in Chicago and crazy old lady gave us Chucky doll that lived in the closet in my bedroom. My nights terrified of the closet door opening lol

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

Bride of Chucky is the best of the series, nobody @ me.

[@HeyKosmo]

Yo, when Slappy replaced that kid's eyeballs in one episode of Goosebumps, it traumatized me for life. Also Child's Play 2 is a must.

[@JamesVSCinema]

Slappy was a problem lmfao!

[@danwilliams2551]

The doll breaking out into swearing is both darkly hilarious but disturbing to think about how Andy was left alone with someone like that. It harkens the feeling of a child being lured in by a predatory adult using kids toys, quite literally in this case

[@PodyTheCirate]

Seriously fantastic practical effects and some of the best voice acting in anything!

[@LoneCloudHopper]

With "Jaws", Spielberg wanted to show a lot more of the shark but their creation was looking unrealistic, so he filmed most of the film around it until the shark looked right. It worked out beautifully. Art through adversity.

[@chrisbryz1652]

First 3 are legit

[@samwise1982]

Welcome to my nightmare. The Chucky Good Guy Doll is based on the My Buddy doll, which looks nearly identical to one in the movie. I saw this when I was a kid while that doll was in my bedroom. I also had the Robotron toy, which comes to life in Poltergeist. My trauma is real.

[@carlosfuentes4944]

That’s academy award winner Brad Dourif who plays Charles Lee ray in the beginning and is the voice of chucky btw

[@TheHilavitkutin]

I don't remember Brad winning academy award? He was nominated for sure but never won one.

[@OneFiction666]

Someone may have already mentioned this but I think the artist you were thinking of who went deaf and painted the black paintings was Goya. He’s my favourite painter purely because of how raw and unpolished his paintings were, especially for the time (1820s). I’m so glad you mentioned him.

[@JamesVSCinema]

Correct! Thanks for correcting the name for me, but I’m happy someone caught it.

[@AAA__]

The 2nd movie is even better.

[@trol68419]

Bride of Chucky is my favorite of all of these films, I hope you get a chance to check it out.

[@Gabrielhllbrpe]

The 80s man the best decade for horror

[@shainewhite2781]

Saw this movie when I was younger and it scared the hell out of me! I learned to love the films and the TV series based on the film franchise. Originally, Steven Spielberg was going to direct the film, but turned down as he was too busy working on Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Tom Holland was hired after Spielberg was impressed by the horror comedy Fright Night. William Friedkin, Howard Franklin, Robert Wise, Robert Aldrich, Rocky Morton and Annabel Jenkel, Irvin Kershner, and Jack Clayton were considered for directing.

[@JamesVSCinema]

Yeah I genuinely had a great time with this one!

[@mparantha]

glad you enjoyed this one. it' sone of my fave horror series. I found out when i was a little older that the actress playing aunt maggie is a distant cousin. i got to meet her finally a few years back over thanksgiving.

[@olicorrivo3289]

imagine watching this as a kid... just from the kid actor performance, it could cause trauma.

[@2044Nick]

Best movie in the series. It gets more comical with each movie both takes away from the movie and adds the charm of Chucky.

[@Tempest_Elixir]

16:26 Such a great moment 😂

[@carolinehaf21]

I watched this when I was 7 bc I was at a cousins sleepover and the older kids made fun of me screaming at the TV when normal methods to kill him don't work. THEN had to sleepover at their TOTALLY unfamiliar 3 storey gothic house right after the movie that I was totally unfamiliar with (and it was filled with toys lol)... This huge 3 story house with a creepy basement and the bedroom I stayed in also had a walk in closet that had been modified to be big enough to fit a desk for homework so you could literally close yourself in the closet and no one would know... Needless to say, had some TERRIFYING nightmares that night for all these reasons (and my scared of the dark phase as well at the time). So I've HATED Childs Play and Chuckie and ANY millionth version of the movie that has continued him to NOT JUST EFFING DIE for my entire life lol. I do recognise they did a good job with the horror comedy elements... just- it wasn't for a 7 year old already petrified of the dark, sleeping in a strange 3 storey house with a million entrances for a small alive doll to easily manoever through.

[@applejax1017]

My dad showed me this movie when I was like 5 and it scared the living hell out of me!

[@fuyocouch]

This movie was so great to watch back in the day, always watched horror movies with my family even though I was only 10 at the time, 80's parents didnt give a shit about violence in movies, as long as no graphic sex scenes, then all good.

[@MattKayser]

We 80's kids were built different 😆

[@MissChambersxo]

The chucky franchise is awesome. The same actors and crew have stuck with it for decades, and you can see the love that goes into it. Even the bad movies have their moments. Chucky has this weird quality where he’s both hilarious and super messed up, similar to Englund’s Freddy I suppose but it really works with him being this killer doll. He’s both creepy where he’s this uncanny valley doll who’s super fucked up but also the premise of this foul mouthed killer Beanie Baby is just kind of hilarious.

[@Ahluk1]

Damn it James, now you have to do the entire series, plus the show. Sorry, thems the rules

[@BB13131313]

Nice, I grew up a big fan of this franchise.. Child's Play 3 is my personal favorite, it was actually the first R rated film I ever saw when I was like 8 lol..

[@stonecoldfox5064]

I think you’re referring to Francisco Goya brother 👊🏽 His black paintings were insane and some of my fav pieces of all time

[@LupusLifestyle]

Can't believe my parents let me watch this as a kid. I blame them for why I'm single now! Don't ask me what one has to do with the other. Anyway, looking forward to your reaction!

[@JamesVSCinema]

Lmfaoooo, your parents knew ball!

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

I had the damn “My Buddy” doll hes designed after lmao. My family had no problems when I lit sob on fire out back in the trash barrell. 🤣

[@BertonMelch]

Child’s Play 2 is 🐐 status

[@botz77]

This one is directed by Tom Holland (Not that Tom Holland) the guy that directed the original Fright Night, and Psycho II, etc. It is probably the best directed of all the Chucky films, but the others are at least great horror/comedies if not as affective as thrillers.

[@jonwright6472]

I actually recommend the remake, although the Internet tells me I'm dumb for that. Idk, new kid and Aubrey Plaza were really good, and Mark Hamill is the best possible voice for Chucky 2.0.

[@daltonmorgan5739]

please continue I love watching you and the second I saw you are watching Chucky i immediately pressed it.

[@JamesVSCinema]

awesome! happy people are enjoying this as much as me

[@Wonderpalm1979]

I snuck into this movie when i was 9 but got thrown out before the credits finished.

[@aandromaliuss]

Oh my god you have to watch the rest of the franchise, one of my all time faves. There are only two mediocre entries in the whole thing which are the remake (which you can skip) and three. The rest are insanely fun camp that lean more and more into satirical horror comedy.

[@JamesVSCinema]

That’s awesome. Really enjoyed this film so that sounds like a lot of fun!

[@luismedeiros7139]

I always believed that the Chucky movies and Candy Man are in the same universe.

[@khronotrigga2638]

2nd one is a continuation that's really good as well.

[@jaredstephens1686]

Honestly the first 3 keep this same tone. At 4 is when they get more cheesy & the over the top Chucky people mostly know.

[@spoileralertksua]

Child’s Play is good but Child’s Play 2 is a perfect sequel and is a total all timer

[@fuyocouch]

@james VS Cinema I know im not a patreon guy, but ive followed you for a while and I would love to recommend a movie that is relevant now, but is from the 70's. 'Being There' with Peter Sellers, a sleeper cult hit. Worth seeing 100%.

[@PodyTheCirate]

This is sort of a Christmas movie I think…totally..

[@ViolenziaDomestica]

I’m loving this deviation from the Christmas norm. I mean, don’t get me wrong! I’m a Christmas girlie!!! But it’s gonna be cool to hear your thoughts on this classic film outside of the time frame other channels tend to review.

[@alicestevens8291]

I like it and don't. I am aware the creators did not get make the story they wanted to and that's the don't. Because when I know that I can see it (usually could see the holes regardless but?). They did eventually after years of devotion to this which is my favorite thing about the franchise. It helps to distinguish it and per entry from it's slasher film counterparts. So more seeing them complete their achievement and picturing the pride they must feel about Chucky. I like it when the underdogs win.

[@BrunaCubbins]

Chucky is a good guy, love him.

[@JamesVSCinema]

The cops are being called.

[@dajmasta94]

So the chucky franchise is probably the most consistent slasher series there is. That’s because they’re all written by the same guy. After 3 they become more satirical but they’re still pretty good and curse of Chucky is actually one of the better ones imo which is the second to last. Haven’t seen the show yet but heard good things. Highly recommend you checking out at least the first 4

[@jayralph2795]

I’m just waiting for the last episode of better call Saul. (So good! Can’t wait till you break down the writing of the ending.)

[@KevinDobson-k3q]

Can't wait for more Curb 😊

[@partyjunglekonto]

munchies and flick, doctors order

[@JamesVSCinema]

good vibesss

[@pr0kzee]

This movie had no right being this good

[@AlexCass1515]

I saw this movie for the first time when I was 11 and I had crazy nightmares 😂 watching it now that I’m 23 I actually really like it but Jesus Christ I could not sleep for a while 😂

[@djcantskate3883]

Mad curious what you’d think about Jordan peele’s movies if you haven’t seen them yet. They’re not really scary more thriller-y but loads of amazing concepts and shots ventriloquism is a word btw good shit and leaves you with a good deal to wanna pick apart

[@virgoprinze9465]

I can’t wait for you to watch Bride and Seed of Chucky 😂

[@SmokinDroFrayser]

You gotta finish Andy’s story

[@gogames31]

You need to watch puppet master movies, they are even smaller toys but you could not win against them.

[@SmokinDroFrayser]

We need all these and the show please and then OZ

[@Mizgrievoux]

I don’t speak Spanish at all but I still almost died laughing at Spanish Chucky 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKfEoZhvls5oZpYsi=3WGjZ-dKH1Pz_oBE

[@WrestlingGod-f4v]

James, please do a reaction to the TV show and all of the movies please and not the 2019 one that is not Canon

[@ivanjuarez1160]

1st

[@s1lentch1ll]

2nd

[@JamesVSCinema]

Speedy

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Dont fall for the diddlers saying to watch the series. Please do yourself a favor and skip the series. It starts off cool but begins to go this really sketchy route of child sexualization. It got to the point where I could no longer watch it. It made me uncomfortable. I can watch gore and brutality…I cannot watch children doing sexual shit w each other.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

If you dont believe me just look up “Chucky series and child sexualization” and you will see all the ppl that thought the exact same.