Bride of Chucky (Childs Play 4)

Bride of Chucky title

Tag line : Chucky gets Lucky.

Bride of Chucky : Childs Play4 The moment I heard the Rob Zombie's opening song "Living Dead Girl", I knew I was going to love this movie . This, the fourth in the "Childs Play" series, see's the return of Brad Douriff as Chucky's voice and introduces Jennifer Tilly as Chucky's new "Doll" Tiffany.

Tiffany, the former girlfriend of Charles Lee Ray (Chucky), manages to aquire the old "Good Guys" doll that his soul took over. After stitching him back together and using a little help from her "Voodoo for Dummies" manual, he is ressurected once again into the body of the doll.

Unfortunately, they have a bit of a falling out session and she refuses to help him find a new host body for him to take over. So Chucky subsequently kills her, then resurects her into the body of another doll so that she is forced to help him.

This poses one slight problem though. In order to transfer into new host bodies they need to recover Chucky's amulet necklace, which is buried with his body in the next county. How do you get there when you're a doll?

Chucky, being a resourceful type, concocts a plan to recover the necklace by conning Tiffanys next door neighbour into delivering them to the cemetery keepers house. Of course, what follows is a trail of blood and carnage, as the young lad who's taking them accross state lines is also eloping with his girlfriend, the neice of the local police cheif (John Ritter), and they run into a whole lot of trouble as Chucky and Tiffany proceed to start bumping off everybody who get's in their way. Leaving a mysterious trail of corpses in the unsuspecting couples wake.

By far, this is the best in the "Childs Play" series since the first film. There have been obvious efforts made to update the franchise, and bring the series in line with the 90's style of "Scream era" horror. The killings are on fine form, there's some hilarious gags in it, and the soundtrack is all by Heavy Metal / Hard rock artist's. I recommend it wholeheartedly, even though parts 2 & 3 sucked.

Best line : Chucky, having killed a cop by firing a load of nails into his head, exclaims "Hmmm now why does this guys face look familiar?"

Overall marks : 7/10

Other Information.

Bride of Chucky Soundtrack Rob Zombie : Hellbilly De-Luxe Album There's a great Heavy Metal/Hard Rock soundtrack album of this film currently available, (pictured left) featuring "Slayer", "White zombie", "Type O negative" and "Motorhead" to name but a few. Unfortunately though, the intro song - Living Dead Girl - by Rob Zombie does not appear on it for some strange reason, so if you want to listen to that one you'll have to buy Rob Zombie's own album "Hellbilly Deluxe" (pictured on the right) (Yes I'm sure it's a marketting scam, but both are excellent albums, Beleive me!).

The US poster was a parody of the poster for "Scream 2".

Jennifer Tilly is probably best known for her role in the comedy film "The Trueman Show", for which she received an Oscar nomination.

John Ritter is probably best known for his roles in comedy films, in particular "Problem Child" in which he had to deal with another pint sized menace.

Tiffany's Line "We belong dead" was a direct quoute from the film "Bride of Frankenstein".

Apparently Universal studio's where a little reluctant to release Bride of Chucky in the UK, either because of lack of interest, or because of the fuss kicked up about Childs Play 3 being (FALSELY) linked to a couple of murders over here. In the end it was released by a small independant distributor who, presumably, laughed all the way to the bank.