The Shining Synopsis and Review

 

Considered to be one of the most important movies in the history of horror, The Shining is another movie that was based on a Stephen King book. The movie was made by Stanley Kubrick and is even today known for some of the iconic imagery that the movie portrayed. King himself has gone on record saying that he did not like the way the movie turned out, and there were reports of mismanagement being rife on the sets, because of Kubrick being a perfectionist. However, when we see the movie today, we can only say that it was a disagreement amongst the masters of the trade. 

The Shining Synopsis

The movie begins with a aerial shot that introduces us to the main characters traveling to the hotel. From the very beginning,we understand that Kubrick has tried to make the movie as visually appealing as the terror that we'd experience in the movie. The background music is something that lulls you into one of those dreamless, bitter naps that leave you waking up with a headache. The music and the camera work makes the hotel more foreboding that it normally would be. The first sequence of the movie then introduces us to Jack Tarrance. 

Jack

It seems that Jack is looking for a job as a caretaker, and the hotel where he is being offered the job is a sort of a jinxed one, where the previous caretaker has killed his family, apparently due to cabin fever. The employer informs Jack about this and has apprehensions whether he'd be ready to take on the position.  Jack is quite happy to take on the position and the mystery!

The next scene immediately takes us to Jack's son, Danny who has Extra Sensory Perception and is shown to talking to a 'Tony', who informs him that his dad has already got the job and would be calling his mother in a while to do confirm. And Bingo!

Ask Him Who Wins the Lottery This Week

This brings us to some of the iconic scenes in the movie, like the whole room bathed in blood, the twin sisters, etc. Of course this is just the beginning of some weirdly beautiful scenes that we will be seeing all through the movie. Irrespective, the trio travel to the hotel. The happy family has a good time regaling each other stories about how some people became cannibals and all sorts of safe family stories.

Happy Family

Thus starts their first day in the Hotel, where the family is introduced to all the aspects of the hotel. Daniel, or Don as he is called sees the twin sisters for the second time in the Hotel, counting the first as the one time when he saw them in the dream.

The hotel itself has a very romantic past, it was built in the early nineties,is built on an Indian burial ground and there were some rebellions that were brought down during the construction - how peaceful and serene this place would be!

The mother and child  are then shown the kitchen and when they reach the poultry, the head chef calls Daniel 'Doc', which is his actual nickname, but it  is not known to anyone in the hotel, as yet.  When the mother asks him how he knows that they call Daniel 'Doc', he brushes it away as a coincidence. Well, it is not a coincidence, when the Head Chef speaks to Doc via telepathy and asks him whether he'd like some icecream.

That's him. Check the Telepathy. It's Awesome!

Well very soon Daniel and the Head Chef are left together, with Daniel having a scoop of ice cream and everyone else going to another part of the hotel. The head chef asks him how he knew that Daniel was called Doc and that is where Daniel is introduced to ESP and telepathy, called the 'Shining'.

Daniel is one step ahead of the Head Chef, and tells him that he has his own friend, Tony, who tells him about everything that happens, 'before' it actually happens. The Head Chef seems a bit upset that his place in the sun is being shadowed, and begins asking Daniel as to who this person is.  He also asks Daniel whether Tony has ever told him anything about this place. Daniel answers in the negative, but on some coaxing, Daniel asks whether something bad happened in the Hotel. The head chef then gives a very interesting analogy of bad things to bread and toast.

It is here that Daniel asks about Room 237, and says that the chef is scared of Room 237. When prodded, the chef says that there's nothing in Room 237 and he is told to stay out of the room. Things go well for a month, with the only problem being that Jack's novel not going anywhere. The mother and child go for a walk, and reach the maze.  This is the maze, people:

The Maze

After a while, Daniel comes across the Room 237, and stops his little blue tricycle, trying to go into the room.

The Room

During a storm, when the telephones are down, Daniel is driving his tricycle all through the hotel, only to meet the twin sisters once again, as they invite him to play with them.  While they invite him, Danny also sees visions of the two killed, with a mean looking fireaxe on the side! He tells Tony that he is scared.  Tony tells him that it is just like pictures in a book. It isn't real.

Son meets dad after a while, and this seems to be one of the beginning signs that Jack is becoming insane cooped in that hotel.  He calls Danny to himself and embraces him in a way that denotes a man going mad slowly.  Meanwhile, Danny asks his father whether he would ever hurt his mother and him.

Father Son Talk

The next day, while Danny is playing with his cars on a brightly colored carpet, he walks towards another of the meandering, long running panels in the hotel and finds that Room 237 is unlocked.  He is basically looking for his mother, who's in the machine room, doing what people normally do in machine rooms. The mother hears some crying sounds and goes to check.

At the same time, Jack shouts out loud, making Wendy run through the hotel to console him. Jack says that he had a nightmare, the 'most horrible dream he ever had'. He confesses that he dreamt that he killed her and Danny.  Danny comes back from room 237, walking in one of those slow walks that are part and parcel of horror flicks.  His mother runs to him, only to find some marks on his neck. The mother accuses that Jack tried to kill Danny.

Jack goes deeper into the realms of insanity, now mindlessly trudgling all about the hotel, and finally reaches the Gold Room.  He looks for a drink. Jack begins to speak to himself, thinking that there's a bartender and other people in the Gold Room that is empty. Jack then holds up a complete conversation with the bartender, right from asking for a white man's bourbon to asking how his credit is in that joint.

He confesses to Lloyd that he did not hurt the child. He speaks to him in a very emotional and drunken way, repeating that he did not hurt him and that he would not hurt him at all. Finally, he says that he didn't hurt him and that it was an accident. It is then revealed that he had hurt his son a three years ago, because he had thrown some of his papers all over the floor.

Wendy comes running up to him, and tells him that someone else is in the hotel, a crazy woman, who has tried to strangle Daniel. She says that Daniel told her that a crazy woman lives in the hotel.  The scene ends when Jack asks her which room was it?

Impending the snowstorm and the hinted at ghosts in the hotel, Jack slowly but surely slips into the realm of sheer insanity. The head chef has a dream about Daniel dying after strangulation, while he is surrounded by posted of naked Africa American chicks, while Jack investigates the room 237.  Jack has a vision of a naked woman and has a very sleazy little smile on his face. When Wendy asks whether there was anyone in the room, he replies in the negative. The head chef tries to call the hotel, but the phones are not working, you remember?

While the wife and husband speak, Daniel is having another vision at his bedroom door. Wendy tells Jack that they should leave the hotel, and they have a domestic fight.  Jack has a fit of rage in the hotel room, throwing away the steel and silverware, walking through the hotel like its his own palace. Well, it is his palace anyway.

He returns to the Gold Room, seeing all the ghosts having a party in the gold room, while the Head Chef tries to call the radio to find out what the problem with the phones. He also notifies the radio about a family being in the hotel with a kid.

While at the Gold Room, he meets Lloyd once more, and orders a drink. While being paid, Lloyd says that he won't be charging him, as the money would not work there. He then meets  waiter who messes up with his jacket. The two gentlemen come to a washroom, and the waiter introduces himself as Delbert Grady. Jack asks him whether he has seen him somewhere before, and Grady replies in the negative. Jack asks Grady whether he was the caretaker around the hotel, and Grady again replies in the negative.

He asks whether Grady is married. Grady affirms and says that he has a wife and two daughters. When asked where they are at the moment, Grady says that he cannot be quite sure about it at the moment. Jack argues that he was the caretaker and says that he recognizes him. He also tells him that he killed his wife and daughters and shot himself. Grady says that he does not have any recollection about it. Finally, in a ominous tone, Grady tells Jack that he is the caretaker and he was always the caretaker.

Gradys then queries Jack whether he knew that his son would soon call a outsider to the situation. When Jack says he does not know, Gradys says that a 'nigger cook' will be coming into the hotel, due to the talent that he has, a talent that he has used to solve the situation.

It may be here that Jack actually falls into the deepest depths of insanity, where the two men have a frank talk from the '50s about how the men of the family should correct their families. When Jack walks out, he reaches the radio call, which was initiated by the head chef. Jack disconnects the radio.

The Head Chef meanwhile begins his sojourn to the hotel, first flying and then driving towards the hotel. Unfortunately, he is caught in a big snowstorm. Wendy,  meanwhile is moving around with a big enough baseball bat, and finds out that her husband has been typing 'All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy' in various fonts and typefaces.

And Remember, No Copy Paste

This brings us to Jack's first violent act, which is deferred because his wife basically bashes him unconscious with a baseball bat.  Jack takes the conversation towards Danny, and what should be done with him. Finally, Jack has another domestic argument, where he shows his insanity and warbles about how he has to be in the Overlook Hotel till the 1st of May.

Jack is then locked in a room in the hotel, while the wife and son move to a safer place within the hotel. Jack gains consciousness and then demands to be released. His wife, being the smarter of the two, does not agree. Jack tries some emotional blackmail, but that does not work. Wendy says that she's gonna get a doctor by driving the snowcat.  Jack tells her to check out the radio and the snowcat, and tells her that she's not going anywhere.  As expected, the snowcat is screwed beyond repair.

Meanwhile, Jack and Mr Grady have a talk, while he is locked in the store room. Grady tells him that he has to solve this matter in the harshest manner possible, and Jack tells him that he looks forward to it. Upon his word, Grady unlocks the door.

The head chefs makes his way through harsh weather and snowstorm, only to be killed in an ambush my Jack Torrance. Danny has another ESP experience, where he goes to his mother, mentioning 'Redrum', which is basically written on his bedroom door. We see Jack with a big knife, and the soulful, piano music that is the symnbolism of horror moves nowadays. He writes Redrum on Wendy's bedroom door too.  Wendy wakes up, to hear Jack breaking open the door with the iconic fireaxe. Jack breaks the door down, and there's a chase sequence, which has Wendy sending her son away from the hotel through the window hatch.

The headchef has reached the house by now, as both the predator and the prey hear the sound of an approaching vehicle. Danny himself has gotten back into the hotel, and is trying to hide somewhere safe in the hotel, as Jack searches for his family, fire axe in hand.  It's here that he meets his end in an ambush.

This then leads to a rage filled chase sequence, where the father searches for his son, only to kill him in the snow capped area. Finally, Wendy and Danny drive away, leaving Jack to die in the freezing place.

Great Sick Themes: Horror Movie Themes

Everything about the original Exorcist was a refreshing change in the world of Horror movies and slasher flicks.  Before the Exorcist, most of the movies depended on deaths, slashes and kills of integral and unintegral characters to send the point across to the viewer. The Exorcist was one of the first movies to use sequences and situations to put across the fact that the situation was indeed completely jacked up. 

Another important aspect of the movie was the titular music. As far as I am concerned, it is the best music that I have heard in a horror movie. As OMG Horror puts it, this is truly stunning stuff. 

 

So great was this theme, that it inspired a Bollywood thriller movie, that was quite ahead of its time. To check for yourself:

This brings us to the quite eerie and frightening Friday the 13th movie theme, which had the cult 'ki ki ki ma ma ma' as a background.  What's interesting about this music is that it actually gives a cue to the viewer as to when something nasty is gonna happen on the screen, and when that happens, it only creates a dread/wish for the music to come back again!Another great piece of work here.

 When it comes to Latin chants in a Horror theme, we will never forget The Omen, the original movie that began the Christ/Satan thought. While the thought itself was terrifying enough, they had to create this themesong to make it awesomer:

Before I have my one and a half fans tearing down my front door in a haze of 'How Come no Psycho', I have to say that I keep Psycho a bit down on the list simply because the music has become so commonplace that it is actually a shame. But even so, you cannot disagree that this is one of the most adrenaline pumping scores in a horror movie:

The Exorcist Synopsis and Review

 

Every business has game changers. These game changers, basically change the way the business works, the way the business is looked at by others, and basically takes the business in an entirely different realm and category that was previously nonexistent. Keeping these things in mind, the Exorcist can be considered to be the biggest game changers for the Horror and Sci Fi industry, because it basically gave birth to the 'possessed child/possessed person' concept to the world of Horror movies.

The Exorcist Synopsis:

The movie begins on a eerie note, giving us a profile of a Virgin Mary photograph, and then the ancient Azaan call of the Moslems, interspersed with the movie credits in red and black.

Gentle Beginnings

The movie then takes us to a excavation site, where something strange is found by the excavators, sending the main archeologists in a tizzy, especially when they find that what they have is a statue of the demon itself. 

That's the Devil

Well, the guy has some frights as he goes through his day, and then has the biggest fright, when he finds out that the miniature model of the demon that he found out was just the iceing to this cake:

That's all for the old archaeologist for now, as we are taken to Georgetown, to the peaceful residence of a famous movie actress, Chris MacNeil, who is divorced and stays with her daughter, Regan  (Linda Blair) and some househelps.

Thinks are a ok until Regan falls a bit sick all of a sudden, and the doctors cannot actually place a finger on what's happened to her, other than that she has become temperamental and has knowledge of words that a typical 12 year old wouldn't have (specifically, the c- word). 

Things take a serious turn during a party hosted by Chris, where Regan comes into the hall and pisses on the carpet, and speaks to the guests in a male voice, effectively saying something like,"You are gonna die'

I promised myself no carpet cleaning jokes

When nothing comes out of it, the doctors suggest an exorcism for Regan, which is not exactly shot down by the mother, but she has no idea whom to turn to. Finally she turns to another integral character of the movie, who had another storyline going on. This guy:

Supposed to be the titular character

The guy is a priest who basically loses his faith in God after his mother dies, because of old age, and because the family does not have money to look after her, other than admit her to a government hospital.  While all this is going on, some of the most infamous scenes in Horror History go on, like the now infamous defiling of the Virgin Mary scene, which is basically a scene depicting the Virgin graphically defiled, like this:

Meanwhile, Reagan becomes more violent as the days pass, with her one day stabbing herself furiously, uttering 'Let Jesus Fuck You' and then turning on her mother, slapping her and saying 'Lick me, Lick me!'. This also has the famous sequence where her neck turns a full 180 degrees.

Look Ma, No CGI!

This finally leads to the Priest meeting Regan in her house, and this is where the real meat of the movie begins. Basically, its the interaction between the Priest and the possesses Regan that interests me the most. The taunts, the words, the reflex puking, aah.. just what the doctor ordered!

With the priest finding it difficult to exorcise Regan, the veteran archaeologist cum priest that we first say in the movie is brought in,  so that he may help the young priest in the exorcism. It is then the duo who speak to the spirit, and finally win against in exorcising the demon from the little girl's body.

The movie has several sequences like the infamous spider sequence, the levitation sequence, the room thrashing sequence, each of these sequences are something that should be watched to be experienced. Here is the Spider Walk Scene:

Childs Play 2010: What it will be, What it won't be.

Horror fans all over the world must be pretty kicked up about the remake/reboot of the Child's Play franchise. Well I personally would rate Child's Play 1 as a cult classic, Child's Play 2 as a good follow up, Child's Play 3 as a half hearted endeavor and Child's Play 4 as a completely new idea put into a old concept that really worked for me. That said, I do look forward to Child's Play 4. Here is some information that we have got about Child's Play 4:

Who will be directing Child's Play 4?:

Don Mancini will be directing Child's Play 4. 

How close will it be to the original Child's Play series?:

The writer of the original series, Don Mancini is attached to the project. Of course, that is neither here nor there, but it's safe to say that at least they have their heart in the right place - as yet. 

Will there be Tiffany in the Project?

Child's Play was never about the serial killer, it was about his life as a soul who is trapped in a body of a child. And  thought Tiffany had a major role in the latter Child's Play movies,  it doe snot guarantee her role in the Child's Play remake.

And no, we do not even have a trailer as yet.

Cujo Review and Synopsis

 

When I see the horror movies of the '80s, I cannot help but marvel at the fact that the movie makers back then made such intense movies with such in depth scenes without  the technical and CGI help that is available today.  One such marvel is Child's Play, which was released around the '80s. Another movie that really got me by the scruff was Cujo. 

Cujo was another movie that was based on a Stephen King book, and one can only marvel on how Stephen King picks up completely everyday objects and individuals and weaves his horror fest around it. This time it's a dog that is infested by rabies.  Of course, the movie and the story has one major difference, which we will discuss later in the article. 

Plot:

The main characters, Joe Camber and family live in the fictitious town of Castle Rock, Maine and have a pet, a St. Bernard. Joe Camber is quite fond of the dog, but forgets one important aspect - to vaccinate it against rabies. Inadvertently, Cujo gets rabies from a bat or something, and the entire family is then harassed by a very strong, very brutal and quite ruthless St. Bernard. 

Review:

The movie is a scene to scene follow up to the novel, except for a change in the end, which was brought about because the test audience found the ending too depressing. Make no mistake about it, this is one movie that leaves you tired, frustrated and completely humbled by the end of it all. 

You tend to wonder whether it was a good idea to allow the elements of nature, like a dog to actually have a higher hand on them when it comes to basic survival, and also makes you wonder whether humans are actually as weak as the movie has depicted them as.  Of course, the solitary sequence of humanity rising over the situation does have the necessary effect of exhilaration, but it does leave a bitter taste in your mouth.  Read on to find out the Plot Summary:

The movie begins with the credits, and the artists in the crowd would actually like the font in which the name Cujo is written.

Does it not remind you of Coca Cola?

The movie basically starts with a brief scenery of the nature, with a hare moving about in the forest to some happy and soulful music, who is then chased by the titular character, all to a slightly moving music, telling you, and the one and a half PETA members in the audience that this is life, this is how it works, this is how it is. The movie takes a sordid turn right then, when Cujo is bitten by a rabies infected bat,as he follows the hare into a harehole, setting the trend for the rest of the movie.

We are then introduced to the family, with the boy moving around the house checking if all the light switches work. We are shown that he is scared of the darkness, as he switches off the light and then runs to sleep.  The spooks start right then, with a door opening in the similar creeky manner.Of course, one shriek gets the family up and we are introduced to the family:

Dress that guy up and it becomes a Post Card

Well, its good to know that Scooby Doo was the children's favorite back in the '80s too, which the typical breakfast scene from movies shows. And that introduces us to Steve, apparently the handyman of the family.  Well, you see that almost everyone is ready to kiss him, except the wife, who does not even give him the time of the day. Why? Well, we wouldn't know, would we? Of course, with this kind of a face, who'd hire him?

Would you hire him?

We do not know who'd hire him, but we can tell you one thing. Whenever your wife looks at you like this when another guy is around, you know its trouble. I meant, like this:

The next scene basically shows us that she is having it with the Steve who just brought the horse for her son.  Well, the next scene informs us that the family has a broken down car and they need it repaired, and to repair that car they have to go quite a long way, which they do. And that is where the boy meets Cujo for the first time.  Cujo is introduced to the audience once again, making an entry that would put John Wayne to shame. You wish to see it? Well, you asked for it:

I told you

Now, we know that the woman has some serious eye defects when she lays with Steve, but if she cannot see a dog who has rabid bite on his damn nose, you have to think about her mental state as well. I mean, come on people, she did not see this:

Seriously, think about it.

This brings us to the subplot where the product that Joe works for is said to be the reason for some kids falling sick, which was a false alarm scare as said in the news. What follows is a very interesting litany that Joe gives to his wife about having product responsibility. Seriously, if even ten percent of professionals in the ad and media world would have this kind of responsibility, the world would be a better place to live in.Well, Joe goes back to firefighting for his advertising campaign, while his wife goes back to screwing the beard guy,  This movie does bring a lot of old memories back, with one person saying that "We lost the Sharp Account'.  Now, when was the time when such a statement really meant something, without anyone turning back to you and saying, "We lost the what account?" - That's right, the '80s! Cujo meanwhile is showing signs of becoming rabid, while his owner pays no attention to him.

Doggy Bad News

We are taken through a scene where the woman breaks up with the beard guy and she basically goes to his house to tell him off, and her husband sees them, and then they disappear before he can turn back and reach them.  Inconsequential, for now. However, the lady goes and picks up her son from school. While going back, her car conks out but she finally reaches home, where she is confronted by her husband about the affair a lot subtly than many other men would. While this is going on, we are shown the metamorphosis of Cujo from a very healthy St Bernard to a rabies infested dog, like this:

Very Bad News

Well, there are some plot points, like we find out that the car repairman is quite poor, and that Joe's wife finally tells him that she was having an affair with his best friend. Joe thinks the best way to let this blow over is by driving away for a while. This is where Cujo becomes completely inflicted by rabies, and runs away, when he is found by the car repairman's son. At the same time, Joe drives away from the house in the red Ferrari, leaving mother and son alone.

Meanwhile, the owner of the dog too goes away for a while, leaving Cujo, the mother and the son alone in the sad town.  Of course, the repairman's son wants to take him to the vet, but you know how inconsideration in horror movies actually make the movies work. Cujo begins his murderous spree, bu killing one of the neighbors after a very brutal snapping and biting, and a shooting spree, which does not succeed in getting anything done.

Baldie Dies! Baldie Dies!

The dog's owner turns up at Baldie Gary's house, only to find him dead, almost completely mauled by Cujo, only thing that the dog's owner does not know who has killed Gary actually.  He does a bit of a search around, and tries to call the police, when he sees his beloved Cujo - thusly.

Thats a Done Case

Oh, and he kills his own owner. 

As is wont to happen, Joe's wife and the son are stranded in the middle of nowhere in their shiny little yellow car, which stops just near the repairman's house.  The wife gets out of the car which is not working guaranteed, and shouts out if anyone is around. Finding nobody around, and listening to her son's cries, she is in a position where she cannot shield her son, and she is attacked by Cujo. This makes for a pretty gory scene. I need to tell you, this was one of the greatest fights I have ever seen between human and animal.

In a single moment, the film turns from a broken family movie to a bare gritted survival between animal and dog. The long, protracted sequence speaks about a lot actually in that half an hour, how a woman is torn between her safety and her son's life, how almost anyone can be taken aback by situations and therefore, die,  and how humans can finally get better than the situation that they are thrust in.

This basically leads to a sequence where the woman and the son are left in a car that is slowly heating up, causing breathlessness in the child, and a woman who is getting out of options very quickly.  This finale is one of the most terrify, exhilarating and heartbreaking (in the novel) sequence that one will ever see in any movie. Because in the novel it is shown that the woman, after all her heroics cannot save her son. This was changed in the movie because the audience felt this was a depressing ending.

To make matters more graphic, here is a small collage that shows you the Cujo at the beginning of the movie, as compared to the Cujo we see at the end of the movie:

Child's Play 1 Synopsis and Review

 

Child's Play is one of the more intelligent horror movie franchises, that has lived since the '80s to the '00s. Now, there is news that the entire franchise is being remade/rebooted, a news that will only be greeted with happiness from the cult fans that have been hiding somewhere all these years. I was not much of a Child's Play fan when i first saw the movie, or the movie series, and did have a good laugh when they made a Bollywood movie based on the same concept, information for which you can find here.

Watching Child's Play now makes me wonder what kind of genuises existed in the '80s and '90s and it also makes me sad to think that these guys made history with such trivial resources back in their day. I only hope that the revived Child's Play movie or franchise meets the same success that the original franchise met with. Also, this is one of the few horror/slasher movies that actually were mostly a whodunnit in the first part, but later on became a full fledged horror movie.

Plot Synopsis:

Charles Lee Ray,  aka The Lakeshore Strangler is a serial killer who has the law on his heels. While running away from a cop, Mike Norris, he enters a warehouse housing the most popular kid's toy - Good guys. Using his voodoo, he transfers his soul into the doll, as the entire warehouse then burns down due to to Mike's self defense tactics. 

You can be so angry when you are shot you know!

Charles Lee Ray, also known as Chucky is now entrapped inside the doll's body. We are then introduced to Andy, who is celebrating quite a lonely birthday in his house, watching a cartoon showing Play Pal's Good Guy's cartoon.  He is around making some breakfast for his mom, who still has her lazy hiney in bed. It is upto the poor guy to make toast, make juice as she does whatever women do sleeping late.

Picture of a obedient child

When he thinks the toast and juice is done, he runs up to his mother, who gives him a warm hug and then it's presents time! Apparently, the doll that he wanted is very expensive, and she gets him one of those half assed accessories which are never sold anyway, such a jerk I tell you.

Hey, Beyonce's expensive, can we hire Destiny's Child?

Fortunately, for every foolish woman like this who there is a smart woman, and the smart woman in this movie is Maggie, a friend of Karen, who knows just the place where they can get the Good Guy doll at a half assed price.

Would you buy anything from this guy?

Life is not a bed of roses for Karen, as her supervisor tells her that she has to spend more time in the departmental store, because they are short handed or something. The good hearted Maggie says that she will take care of Andy till the time Karen comes home. 

That's Feminine Bonding Right There

Well, its that time of the movie when the protagonist meets the antagonist, and we were right there to capture the moment for all of our one and a half fans!

Yippity Yippity Yay!

This brings us to the sequences where Andy and Chucky are having a good time together, with Maggie having some chocolate pie, until Chucky finds out that his accomplice who basically turned tail on him has escaped from prison.

As soon as he finds this out, Maggie plays spoilsport and like the typical nagpot that she is, she tells Andy that its bed time. Andy is not someone to take things lying down and tells her that Chucky wants to watch the nine o clock news. Not understanding the greater aspect of such things, Maggie drives both Andy and his doll into bed, leaving Andy to brush his teeth. It is here that we Chucky in his first movement, as he sits on the couch and watches the news, all by himself. 

Now, there have been several horror scenes that revolve around the television, hell, there have been even movies about it. But when you see the Chucky scene for the first time, this scene is still as intriguing.

The Family Scene

Things go pretty interesting after this, with the real Chucky standing up for what he is really supposed to do, kill and maim, yeah! Being the degenerate that he is, he first kills the woman who actually gave him a cosy little home, Maggie. This he does by hitting her forehead with a toy hammer, which accidentally launches her into orbit and finally down on the pavement.

The stupidity of police officials that we hear in real life is actually mirrored in reel life too. Once the woman dies, the six year old obedient and normally silent Andy automatically becomes the number of suspect of the death. I do not know if psychiatric tests were allowed back then, but it seems stupid for a police officer to blame the child for the death directly at the scene of crime.

Basically, he is saying her son is a killer.

Now, I do not know about that time, but I guess we lived in times where we could believe that a bare chested man could save a entire country, but it was not possible for someone to transfer their soul into a doll.  If a child told his mother today that his toy is a soul, it would  be the beginning of a media circus, a book, a movie, a tv series, even coming on Oprah, but back then, such kids were just shut down in their rooms. Sad situation, I say.

Reason of a Media Circus

Anyway, the next day when his mother is out working, Andy is told by Chucky to go to a place where his pardner is basically sleeping peacefully. While Andy begins looking for Chucky, Chucky looks for his friend and leaves a stove on, only to have his friend come in with guns blazing. Do you know what happens when a person comes in with guns blazing into a room with the stove on?

Bada Boom!

The authorities now take Andy into custody, and it is up to the detective to tell his mother that she might have spawned a serial killer. There is a big argument about this, which I do not think should have happened. I'd consider the woman just showing the officer her finger, take her son for a psychiatric test, and then let the law run its own course, and her son would be home within two weeks. But women seldom take the logical way out, and has a slanging match with the officer, and then returns home, trying to have a conversation with Chucky!

While the conversation does not have much success, our inhourse Hercule Poirot sees the box in which Chucky came, and the batteries fall out. Now, this woman has much more brains than a common departmental store helper and it does not take much time for her to reach the defining moment in her life:

Look Ma! No Batteries!

Not content with just one heroic job for the day, our departmental store heroine decides to take matters into her own hands, and threatens Chucky with a life in the hot and melting home fireplace, and this is where Chucky understand that his game is really up, gives her a love mark and runs away! It's Chucky on the loose!

Karen does not know whom to turn to, so she rushes to the police station and meets the police officer who basically is the root of all happenings. Obviously the police officer finds it easier to believe that a six year old kid has killed two people with no remorse of motive, than to believe that a soul has taken control of a doll that was bought by his mother on half price. Come on, people, a simple investigation would have had the police inspector find out that the doll was bought from a cheapskate who looted the doll from the burnt house where a serial killer with a voodoo background had been shot and killed by the authorities!

Well, a person can be dense in the mental department, but he does not believe Karen even when she shows him the love mark. Gawd, where did we get the people in the police force back then?

A week in Vega doesn't do this to a smexy woman.

 But this woman believes in women empowerment, and scurries away to find the person who had actually sold her the doll. This brings us to a scene where we are reminded that it is not a good idea for a curvaceous blonde walking through the scum of the city in the dark of the night - however thick coats she wears. Of course, the knight in shining armor arrives just in time, and the two part ways once more.

Well, maybe Chucky is mad that the police officer does not think it possible that he can infuse his soul into a doll and that's why he decides to slash the police officer! While the police officer is busy saving his ass (literally) Karen does some research on her own, and finds out that The Lakeshore Strangler actually exists, and that  there might be a answer to all these questions in the form of this person:

The Neighborhood Wiccan

Of course, Chucky reaches this guy before everyone, and the guy basically tells Chucky that he is becoming human, and will become completely human unless he doesn't transfer his soul into the first person who exposed himself to. And we guessed who that is, right. It's this guy!

There go my prospects of a normal life. Why was mom such a skinflint!

With this done, the movie basically has a long sequence where Chucky tries to transfer his soul into Andy's body, which is thwarted by his mother and the police officer time and again. I think they save him something like three times. And this happens because Chucky is a real badass who survives a complete burn, some six bullet shots in all types of organs of his body, and finally, he dies when his head is blown off with a bullet, with another shutting out his heart forever!