Curse of Chucky (also known as Child's Play 6) is a 2013 horror film written and directed by Don Mancini, who created the Child's Play franchise and has written all sequels.
Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that’s regrouped for a funeral. In the wake of her mother’s passing, a young woman – in a wheelchair since birth – is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a “strange doll” she was sent a couple of days earlier…
Curse of Chucky Review
..Certainly more qualified to fall under the “good stuff” category is Curse of Chucky, the sixth film to star the iconic killer doll first made famous in 1988’s Child’s Play…Taking place some years after Child’s Play 3 – thereby omitting Bride and Seed from the canon – Curse of Chucky finds wheelchair-bound Nica (Dourif) receiving a strange package in the post, at which point her mother passes in gruesome, mysterious circumstances. The suspicious death brings round Nica’s sister, her husband, au pair, and daughter, along with the town’s vicar, to plead with the lonely Nica into selling the family house. As ever, Chucky is watching and waiting, biding his time.
It’s a great shame that Curse of Chucky is headed straight-to-DVD, as it may be the most enjoyable film in the franchise so far. The house in which Nica resides never has its horrors exaggerated; Mancini utilises strong lighting–albeit an over-reliance on the flash of lightning–and a good measure of fluid camera movement to build an aura of menace, dually foreboding and comical, as is par for the course with the series.
Supernatural horrors of this age are almost always fixated on a menace inside the house, not seen or heard until the last moment; until that climactic moment, that presence is an invisible trickster turning the inhabitants’ environment against them. With Chucky, the elephant in the room is right there from the start, with the comedy factor arising from each characters’ complete obliviousness to the fact. With this film especially, it seems as if the doll and the camera are working in tandem to make these people’s lives a living hell in the worst sense. Try to suppress a smile at witnessing Chucky’s non-reaction shot as Nica takes to vegetables with a sharp knife. In arguably the film’s tensest sequence, we’re privy to the doll’s hand tipping rat poison into a random bowl of soup. The camera adopts a bird’s eye position as the plates are served up to the table, which then rotates underneath as if to play a magic trick on the audience. From there, we’re left with an amusingly awkward mealtime wherein the wait for one of these fools to keel over and die becomes agonisingly enjoyable."
It’s this stylish approach and nearly Home Alone-level of in-house torture that keeps Curse of Chucky comfortably on a gleeful spree of vicious gore mixed with petty familial conflict. So it’s disappointing that Mancini felt it necessary for the film to tie its ends definitively with prior installments. As the killings ramp up, so do the revelations. Plot takes over from aesthetic pleasure and the answers all too cleverly fall into place. Longtime fans of the series will be satisfied that the knots of Chucky’s mythology have been helpfully untangled, though the last act may prove a letdown for anyone grateful that events weren’t taken too seriously in the first two-thirds. Still, let’s hear it for the one film in 2013 whose credit sting isn’t an anticipation of the next episode. It’s quite the opposite, but you’ll have to wait and see for yourselves." Sound On Sight