Child's Play 3 [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Director: Jack Bender Jack Bender

Overview

Several years have passed since the events of the previous film, and yet again the makers of Good Guys dolls -- a line which included the homicidal Chucky -- decide to reinstate their product line. Unfortunately, some of the materials used are still imbued with the evil spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (voice of Brad Dourif), whose soul once inhabited the Chucky doll... and who returns to action in a spanking new Good Guy body. Determined at first to finish the job he started by swapping bodies with young Andy (Justin Whalin) -- who is now a teenager in military school -- Chucky decides to change tactics, setting his sights on a much younger boy. When Andy becomes aware of the situation, he is compelled to put a stop to Chucky's Satanic antics once and for all. The signs of a creatively-depleted horror franchise are evident (they had already shown themselves in the previous installment), but there is still enough juice left for the spooky climax, which borrows a riff from Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/16/2022
UPC:	0826663228526
Original Release:	1991
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	10,363

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Justin Whalin	Andy Barclay
Perrey Reeves	Kristen De Silva
Jeremy Sylvers	Ronald Tyler
Travis Fine	Brett C. Shelton
Dean Jacobson	Harold Aubrey Whitehurst
Peter Haskel	Sullivan
Dakin Matthews	Colonel Cochrane
Burke Byrnes	Sergeant Clark
Donna Eskra	Ivers
Terry Wills	Garbage Man
Richard Marion	Patterson
Laura Owens	Lady Executive
Ron Fassler	Petzold
Michael Chieffo	Security Guard
Henry Gayle Sanders	Major,Major
Lois Foraker	Sergeant Frazier
David Ellzey	Ghoul
Mark Christopher Lawrence	Cop
Richard A. Pack	Nelson
Michael Renna	Cadet
Ryan Austine	Cadet
Kent Winfrey	Cadet
Aimee Joy Slutske	Carnival Teenager
Alexis Kirschner	Carnival Kid,Carnival Kid
Sophie Owens-Bender	Carnival Kid,Carnival Kid
Kim Stockdale	Mother
David O. Sosna	Trash Picker
Mark Taormino	Kent Blue Team Cadet
Glenn Daniels	Actor
Matthew Walker	Ellis
Edan Gross	Good Guy Doll
Cory Lerios	Composer
John D'Andrea	Composer

Technical Credits

Don Mancini

Jack Bender	Director
Don Mancini	Screenwriter
Robert Latham Brown	Producer
David Kirshner	Executive Producer
David Kirschner	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Child's Play 3 is fascinating not just because of the extremity of its badness, but because its badness suggests a fascinating story of production catastrophes taking place right outside the frame. Though the product of director Jack Bender and series creator/writer Don Mancini, this movie looks like it was shot by a variety of directors and written by a plethora of writers, with a budget, and vision that fluctuates from scene to scene. The story opens with a carefully structured, drawn-out sequence where Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) stalks and kills the CEO of Play Pals Toys in his high-rise office. What does this have to do with the rest of the movie? Nothing! From there, Chucky tracks down his good-guy buddy Andy Justin Whalin at a military academy. The school's population fluctuates from a handful of students to a couple classrooms worth and provides plenty of opportunities to sleazily revel in the grotesque murder of young children. (Some so stupid they might be better off dead.) Eventually the kids are packed off for a simulated war game in the woods, curiously free of adult supervision, and accidentally outfitted with real weapons. (A long story, but they really shouldn't have those on campus anyway.) Once this gambit becomes tiresome, the kids stumble upon a carnival, for the most tired of horror movie tropes, a fun house-set finale. Will spooky laughing clowns pop up out of nowhere? You bet they will. Child's Play 3, sandwiched between the series' successful second installment and Ronny Yu's 1998 campy re-imagining, belongs to a tradition of long since overworked horror movies franchises that, while utterly forgettable, are entertaining in their own gut-bucket nonsensical fashion.

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