Review of Cult of Chucky (2017) by Cory T — 02 Oct 2017

'Cult of Chucky' is a refreshingly gonzo, unsettling amelioration over the soft reboot in 2014's 'Curse of Chucky' because the torchbearer is no longer retconning the Lakeshore Strangler mythology for newcomers or being needlessly manipulative on whether the doll is still resuscitated.

Don Mancini circumvents our expectations for a seventh chapter with a skyrise dinner scene in which the initial trilogy's victim, Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), rants about his support for the 2nd Amendment after his doll-possession events of the 1988 original.

The shocker to this aforementioned scene is that Vincent is not an example of retroactive stunt casting, he is the psychologically macerated soul of the film with the aftereffects still malingering his existence (ex.

His vault is a storage unit for the disembodied head of Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif once again) which he tortures regularly with a blowtorch). Much like all authorities in these pictures, Nica Pierce's (Fiona Dourif) pacifying therapist Dr.

Foley (Michael Therriault) is myopic to the point of hebetudinous idiocy (a Good Guy doll from Hot Topic for the group sessions). The setting remodel to an eggshell-white sanitarium is a seamlessly aseptic stomping ground for Chucky's 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Next' rampage.

Next to Andy, Mancini is a volcanically perceptive writer of protagonists who have been percolated through the wringer like Nica (even in infinitesimal details like the revelation that Nica's fling was with Malcolm (Adam Hurtig) whose dissociative pseudonym is "Multiple Malcolm").

The animatronic puppetry F/X are a drastic improvement too with squeaky-rubber sound augmenting Chucky's footsteps. The third act in particular will polarize the fanbase but it is quite audacious for a series that should be postmortem with Chucky (SPOILER ALERT) transferring himself into multiple dolls and finally ensnaring his vitriolic soul inside the heroine (with some titillating lesbianism between Nica and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly).