Chucky's full name, Charles Lee Ray, is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald (assassin of John F. Kennedy) and James Earl Ray (assassin of Martin Luther King). Catherine Hicks (Karen) and Kevin Yagher (Chucky's creator) met on set and were married a year later.
Chucky's human name, Charles Lee Ray, was inspired by three distinct, yet almost equally terrible murderers. Starting off, his first name, Charles, was inspired by cult-leading psychopath Charles Manson, who orchestrated nine murders in 1969, and finally died in prison in 2017.
Fascinatingly, Chucky also is a homage to a real-life story concerning an equally creepy doll from 1906. The doll is named Robert, and he had been gifted to a young boy from Key West, Florida, by the name of Robert Eugene Otto. Otto had a profound love for Robert and was said to have kept him right up to his death.
Charles performs a Voodoo spell using an amulet, the Heart of Damballa, that transfers his consciousness out of his human body and into the doll's "body." With that, Charles Lee Ray dies and lives again as Chucky, the killer doll ... and he digs it!
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What is Chucky's voodoo chant?
The magical incantation — "Ade due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you!" — brings about broiling storm clouds of lightning and thunder in the skies above as the practitioner effectively swaps one body for another. Chucky's knowledge of the occult also includes Voodoo dolls (which he uses to kill Dr.
He only became evil due to his sadistic desire to hurt and kill others, shown when his father was killed by the Hackensack killer, and decided to become just like him because he was inspired by the killers actions.
Annabelle is an allegedly-haunted Raggedy Ann doll, housed in the now closed occult museum of the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Annabelle was moved there after supposed hauntings in 1970. A character based on the doll is one of the antagonists that appear in The Conjuring Universe.
The longer he inhabits the doll, the more that doll starts to take on human characteristics, meaning that he can be wounded like a regular person. His other downfall is his heart - not because he's secretly a softy, but because a bullet there can killed him.
An inspiration for the Good Guys dolls was a line of talking dolls produced by Playmates Toys. The Corky doll was introduced in 1987, and Corky's voice actor Edan Gross was used as the Good Guy voice. In Cult of Chucky, it is shown that replica Good Guy dolls were being produced by Hot Topic.
At the end of the film, Andy, his mother Karen, and two police detectives, Mike Norris and Jackie Santos, try to fight off Chucky. After he's lit on fire and loses both an arm and a leg, Karen shoots him repeatedly, and he is even beheaded. It isn't until Norris shoots Chucky in the heart that he finally dies.
Chucky's full name, Charles Lee Ray, is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald (assassin of John F. Kennedy) and James Earl Ray (assassin of Martin Luther King).
— Loomis' description of a young Michael was inspired by John Carpenter's experience with a real-life mental patient. 'Michael Myers' was the real-life name of the head of the now-dissolved British company Miracle Films.
The Child's Play franchise is known for its brutal, high kill counts. Racking up the kills together from all seven movies, Chucky has killed a total of 67 people.
“There's no question that M3GAN would definitely win. She's much smarter than Chucky,” says Jason Blum, the powerhouse horror producer behind M3GAN and many other Blumhouse Productions. The other big-name producer of the movie, co-writer James Wan of The Conjuring and Malignant fame, was inclined to cut Chucky a break.
Turns out it's a clever ruse. In a dramatic moment, it's revealed that Chucky put on some makeup to hide his facial scars. He's still the same killer doll that was put through an industrial fan and sewed back together.
It's been noted several times that Annabelle isn't an "evil doll", she's just a vessel for evil spirits. But this is the case for quite a few dolls featured in horror movies, and they move around and wreak havoc. Annabelle, however, is never technically seen moving all on her own.
Tony Spera, the real-life Occult Museum curator and son-in-law of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren opens the case that houses the Annabelle doll a the Museum at the Center for Paranormal Research in Monroe, Conn.
Annabelle also looks a bit different in the movies, as in real life, she is a Raggedy Ann doll, but in the movies, she is a porcelain doll who looks like she has a ton of makeup painted on her face.
Despite inside the body of a doll, Chucky can feel pain and can bleed when injured, and has a large scar with stitches on his face. He used many weapons including guns, but mostly an axe or a knife to kill people who buy or sees him killing someone.
Chucky is 29 inches (. 74 m) tall in Child's Play (1988). Chucky is the main villain of the Child's Play movie franchise. Chucky is a “Good Guys” doll who is possessed by the soul of Charles Lee Ray, a criminal that was fatally shot by the cops after committing a robbery.
"Hi, I'm Chucky, your friend till the end", was one of the first things Chucky was heard saying to Andy in the original Child's Play movie. This catchphrase was a recurring one throughout the entire series of films, so of course, it became one of the most well-known Child's Play quotes.
