Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Don Mancini
Produced by	David Kirschner Corey Sienega
Written by	Don Mancini
Starring	Jennifer Tilly Redman Hannah Spearritt John Waters Billy Boyd Brad Dourif
Music by	Pino Donaggio
Cinematography	Vernon Layton
Edited by	Chris Dickens
Production company	La Sienega Productions
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures
Release dates	November 12, 2004
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[1]
Box office	$24.8 million

Seed of Chucky is a 2004 American supernatural comedy slasher film and the fifth installment of the Child's Play series. The film was written and directed by Don Mancini, who created Child's Play film and has written all of the films in the series. With this entry, Mancini marked his directorial debut.

Billy Boyd, the voice of Glen/Glenda

Plot

In 2004, six years after the events of Bride of Chucky, a ventriloquist's dummy living in the UK with an abusive owner, is shown being forced to perform and living in a cage. He has a nightmare in which he murders a little girl's parents. In reality, he is living a life of embarrassment and abuse. The pale, nervous little doll has big blue eyes, long eyelashes, and spiky red hair, along with low self esteem due to people always laughing at him. He calls himself a freak and an orphan, and assumes people will laugh at him because of the way he looks.

One day, he sees Chucky and Tiffany on TV and realizes that he's not an orphan after all - he is their son. Desperate to know his parents, Glen tracks Chucky and Tiffany down to Hollywood, where they are first shown killing a man who is dressed as Santa Claus for a movie. He manages to escape his cage, hitch a ride on a truck, and mail himself in a box to California. He wakes up in the prop room of a Jennifer Tilly's horror film, including the Chucky and Tiffany dolls. Glen uses a voodoo amulet to bring them back to life.

When Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) finds out that Glen is his child, after laughing at him and calling him ugly, he faints. However, Tiffany (voice of Jennifer Tilly) is delighted and hugs her child. Tiffany and Chucky argue over whether Glen is a boy or a girl, due to his lack of genitals (though he is evidently a male). Chucky decides to continue labeling him as a boy, while Tiffany labels him as a girl, calling him "Glenda."

Rapper Redman, appears as himself

When a puppeteer Tony Gardner begins taking Tiffany apart, she and Chucky decapitate him with a piano wire, leaving Glen shocked and horrified. Jennifer Tilly sees the beheaded body and calls the police. Chucky, Tiffany, and Glen ride home with her in a limousine. Glen, having witnessed his mom and dad kill the puppeteer, asks them why they murder others, as he feels that violence is bad. Tiffany, feeling parental responsibility, agrees and forces Chucky to join her in an attempt to quit their "addiction" of killing, complete with a 12-step program. He pretends to agree, crossing his fingers behind his back.

Jennifer tries to get a role as the Virgin Mary in Redman's directorial debut, but after Redman says that Jennifer isn't right for the part, she invites him over to her house. Chucky and Tiffany make plans to transfer their souls into Redman and Jennifer. Jennifer and Redman start to make love, only for Tiffany to knock them out. While they are unconscious, Tiffany inseminates Jennifer with Chucky's semen.

Chucky leaves and takes Glen with him on a day of murderous adventures, intending to train him in the family's killing ways whether he likes it or not. After driving Britney Spears' car off the road, killing her, they proceed to go to a photographer's darkroom. The photographer, Pete Peters (John Waters), had taken pictures of Tilly kissing Redman, and of Chucky masturbating. Glen tries to warn Peters that Chucky will kill him, only for Peters to bump into a shelf, causing a jar of acid to fall into his head and accidentally kill himself. Chucky, overjoyed with pride, believes Glen did this on purpose and takes a picture to celebrate, much to Glen's and Tiffany's dismay. The day leaves Glen a bit traumatized.

Jennifer awakens the next morning, realizes that she is pregnant and claims that Redman is responsible, though he denies this. Angered on Jennifer's behalf, Tiffany kills him. The next day, Jennifer is horrified to find herself with a fully pregnant belly. The voodoo magic that fuels the killer dolls has also accelerated the pregnancy. Jennifer is captured by Chucky. Her chauffeur, Stan, serving as Chucky's replacement body due to Redman's death, is also captured. Jennifer's assistant Joan (Hannah Spearritt) tries to help her, but she is brutally burned alive. Chucky, in an attempt to relieve Tiffany's guilt over this, reveals that she isn't the only one who slipped - he killed three people and hid them in a closet like Tiffany did to Redman. However, it wasn't Tiffany after all. Chucky discovers that it was Glenda, Glen's murderous alternate personality, whose soul shares Glen's body. Glenda has donned a white dress similar to Tiffany's, smeared makeup on her face, and killed Joan when Glen couldn't do it. Tiffany discovers this and smacks Glenda to bring back Glen, who is horrified at what has happened.

Jennifer gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and it is then that Chucky has an epiphany. After years of being an infamous killer doll, Chucky finally accepts his circumstances, saying he prefers them. Disturbed by this, Tiffany rejects Chucky and resolves to take Glen/Glenda with her. Chucky tries to throw a knife at Jennifer, but Stan jumps in front of it to save her, causing him to be stabbed in his chest, and he tells Tilly that he loves her before he dies. The police arrive, forcing the dolls to flee. Jennifer is rushed to the hospital but claims she wants to see her babies. Tiffany drugs Jennifer and begins to possess her, but Chucky breaks in and kills Tiffany, hitting her in the forehead with his ax. Before Tiffany dies, she tells Glen to not make the same mistakes his mom and dad have made. Glen, devastated by his mother's death, finally snaps and challenges Chucky to a fight. Jennifer, having watched all of this in shock, throws Chucky's axe to Glen, and Glen impales Chucky in his chest. Chucky assumes it's Glenda again, but Glen reveals that it's actually him, finally able to kill in revenge for his mother's death. As he says this, he brings the axe down, dismembering Chucky limb by limb, calling him "Daddy" and asking if he's proud of him, finally. Chucky actually is, and he congratulates him right before the final, fatal blow. Realizing what he has done, and that he killed his father in revenge instead of defense of his mother, Glen suffers an emotional breakdown, and Jennifer picks him up to comfort him.

Five years later, at Glen and Glenda's birthday party, a nanny quits her job because Jennifer's daughter Glenda, scares her. We see that Glen and Glenda have possessed the bodies of Jennifer's twin babies, and now they are five year old humans with the same personalities they had inside the doll. Jennifer lets the nanny quit, only to kill her when she turns away, and Jennifer's eyes glow green, revealing that it's not actually Jennifer at all: Tiffany is alive, having been successful in possessing Jennifer's body. Glen has one more birthday present to open, an anonymous gift. When he opens it, Chucky's severed arm springs up to grab him, and we hear Chucky's maniacal laugh as the screen goes black.

Cast

• Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky
• Jennifer Tilly as herself / voice of Tiffany
• Billy Boyd as the voice of Glen/Glenda
• Redman as Himself
• Hannah Spearritt as Joan
• John Waters as Pete Peters
• Beans El-Balawi as Human Glen
• Kristina Hewitt as Human Glenda
• Jason Flemyng as himself / Santa
• Steve Lawton as Stan
• Tony Gardner as himself
• Martha Stewart (uncredited, archive footage) as herself
• Rebecca Santos as Fulvia
• Keith-Lee Castle as Psychs
• Paul Grossman as Little Boy
• Simon James Morgan as Richard
• Stephanie Chambers as Claudia's mom
• Betty Simons-Denville as Claudia
• Debbie Lee Carrington as herself (DVD deleted scenes, uncredited)

Production

Filmed almost entirely on the Castel soundstages in Romania. All of the animatronic and makeup effects were the handiwork of Effects Designer Tony Gardner (designer) and his company Alterian, Inc.

Release and reception

Box office

Seed of Chucky opened at #4 with $8,774,520 on November 12–14, 2004. When the film closed on December 23, 2004, the domestic gross was $17,083,732 and $24,829,644 worldwide.^[2]

In Australia, Seed of Chucky opened at #8 with $260,958 for the week of February 6–8, 2005 behind Million Dollar Baby (#2) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (#6). In Australia, Seed of Chucky was distributed by United International Pictures.

In France, Seed of Chucky opened at #11 with $694,948 for the week of March 2–8, 2005. It opened behind Le Couperet (#2) and the remake of Assault of Precinct 13 (#4). In France, Seed of Chucky was distributed by SND Distribution.

In the United Kingdom, Seed of Chucky opened at #10 with $202,022 for the week of May 13–15, 2005. It opened behind Monster-in-Law (#2), The Jacket (#8), and A Good Woman (#9). In the United Kingdom, Seed of Chucky was distributed by Momentum Pictures.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a Rotten 32% rating based on 75 reviews, with 23 fresh ratings. On Metacritic, it has an average score of 46, indicated mixed to average reviews.

Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four stating, "Seed of Chucky is actually two movies, one wretched, the other funny."^[3]

Awards

Sequel

In June 2012, it was confirmed that a fifth sequel to Child's Play will be made titled Curse of Chucky and be released direct-to-video. The new movie began production in early September in Winnipeg, Canada and ended in mid-October. In November 2012, Don Mancini announced that filming for Curse of Chucky had been completed, to be released Halloween 2013. Curse of Chucky went back to the Child's Play series' horror roots instead of being a dark comedy like the last two movies. Brad Dourif's daughter, Fiona Dourif, was featured in Curse of Chucky, and Brad Dourif reprised his role as Chucky. The movie was released straight to DVD.

References

External links

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