"Child's Play 2" (1990)

The people who’ve made a living on this movie should get termites. A lifetime of termites. This movie is horrible. Not only horrible, shamefully awful. This movie is bad in the sense that it should’ve derailed the franchise. And this is only the second one. The movie occurs shortly after the first one. A somewhat innovative story about a doll that inhabits the mind of a maniac killer (played and voiced by Brad Dourif). It’s not original if you think about “Body Parts” or “Shocker.” It is fun to watch. For a while. The first one is decent, it’s not great, but since it made a lot of money. Here we are. Incidentally, a few things you should know about Hollywood…if you hit on a potential series of movies, the logic would say you get MORE money to make a sequel. Nope. You get less. And the stars won’t sign on. Typically. Why? I guess for a few reasons. In the case of horror movies, we’re not there for the acting, it’s the gore. Cheap. Secondly, the money is already sunk in its own marketing. For instance, “Friday The 13^th” started with nobodies, and when the nobody (only one) became somebody..Kevin Bacon, you’ll probably watch to see who could be the next somebody. Remember the reboots of “Friday The 13^th” Who the fuck is Jared Padelecki? That was a swing and miss since most people don’t know who that is now.

In “Child’s Play 2” Their logic is that the doll is star. And Danny. I mean, child labor is cheap, unless you’re Macauley Caulkin. They saddled this mess with character actors. The result is total garbage. But…who cares? Since the brand is already established. You paid your ticket, sure you’d see of the same caliber as the first. Won’t happen. They actually cared about making that one good. This one was clearly a money grab. Cause not a damn thing made sense in this movie.

You know what makes this the most painful? That it was done with big studio money. Not big money, but a studio that has big money but elected to not spend it on: script, actor, director, etc…This is their bet how stupid the public is. And they weren’t wrong. I think there are three others after this.

This movie sucks to high hell. I was surprise I hadn’t come across this fiasco prior to this weekend. Aside from the director of photographer, Stefan Czapsky I’m pretty sure this was the end of most careers. I find it sort of funny…at the end of this movie…well, to give some shit away, it takes three different ways to take Chucky down. It feels like they didn’t know what would please the audience. SO they used all three. It also seemed like they just had to extend the 84 minutes of running time. Without two of the three, it would be a 74 minute movie. That’s how pathetic this movie is.