The Child's Play franchise began in 1988 with the original tale of a Good Guy doll who is possessed by the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray — when Charles is mortally wounded, he uses voodoo to transfer his soul into the doll and continues his evil ways.
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.
While the original Chucky's main goal is to transfer out of the doll, the 2019 version is intent on killing anyone who he sees as a threat to him and Andy's "friendship."
"Chucky" Season 2 premieres on USA Network and SYFY on Oct. 5. Countless movies and series are “based on a true story.” But is the “Child's Play” series — which follows the murderous exploits of a Good Guy doll possessed by the soul of infamous serial killer Charles Lee Ray — based in reality?
So, I think that the brainwashing of Chucky was successful, but as it turns out, it was only temporary," he said. The point, Mancini explained, was never to introduce a permanent change within Chucky, but to explore the larger Catholic themes of the season regarding questions of redemption and forgiveness.
Chucky the Killer Doll - Explained (Child's Play Movie)
What did Chucky do to his victims?
So, while Chucky has stabbed, shot, strangled, and otherwise mangled more victims than he has defenestrated them, by far some of his most shocking kills to date have been the result of someone getting tossed out of a window.
Chucky made his first appearance in the 1988 film Child's Play. In the film, a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky (Brad Dourif) uses a voodoo ritual inside a toy store to transfer his soul into a Good Guy doll to escape from Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon).
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!
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.
The Chuckys reveal that the original Chucky found a voodoo spell on the internet which allowed him to separate his soul into multiple host bodies, creating a "cult." Alice was one host, but she was killed.
He and his mother flee upstairs and hide inside a closet, bringing along a small pocketknife for protection. By the time the killer finds their hiding spot, however, Mrs. Ray is dead, stabbed by her own son. His first-ever kill.
Six years after the events of Seed of Chucky, Tiffany's soul still possesses actress Jennifer Tilly's body. She does not appear on-screen until it is revealed that she was the one responsible for mailing Chucky out to Nica's home, facilitating his murder spree on the family he blames for his human death.
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. For Chucky being a pint-sized killer doll, he has enough expertise and weapons to kill more people in Chucky season 2.
So in the first movie, the Voodoo guy tells Chucky that the longer he stays in the doll body, the more human he'll become. Over the course of the first movie, the doll body indeed becomes more human as far as anatomy goes, blood, organs, and whatnot. Same in the second movie and onwards whenever he gets a new body.
Chucky and Tiffany make plans to transfer their souls into Redman and Jennifer. Tiffany knocks them out and uses a turkey baster to inseminate Jennifer with Chucky's semen, intending to use her baby as a host for Glen's soul.
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.
Unfortunately, as is so often the case, that Good Guy doll has been possessed by the spirit of a serial killer, the notorious Charles Lee Ray. After gruesomely murdering several people in Andy's life, Chucky attempts to transfer his soul into Andy so that he can be a real boy.
Powers. Despite his small size and structure, Chucky has the strength and speed of a full grown human adult. He is able to easily restrain and kill people over three times his size with little to no difficulty. He can also wield many varying types of weaponry with no problem at all.
As Jade retrieves the amulet, Jesse appears and trades hostages. The two embrace, but their reunion is short-lived as Chucky stabs Jesse and ties the two together, for the voodoo ritual. Just before Chucky begins the transfer, Tiffany has second thoughts. She stabs Chucky, and is fatally wounded in their fight.
I'm gonna get you, and I'm gonna get Eddie! No matter what!" ―Charles to Mike before his death. Charles Lee Ray, also known as the Lakeshore Strangler, was Chucky's original human form.
Glen was completely opposite from their father Chucky and their twin sister, Glenda. Even though he was Chucky's son, who was cruel, malevolent and sadistic, Glen is strikingly meek, kind and compassionate. their parents had their different reactions to their gentle nature.
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).
The original Chucky Doll is now located at East Martello Museum, which you can find in Key West, Florida. It was said that Chucky the doll was inspired by a true-to-life doll, Robert the doll, which was a gift for Robert Eugene Otto in 1906 from an angry family servant who was involved in voodoo practice.
