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Child's Play (2019)
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Join Nicholas and Mercedes as they wrap up their first season of this show! It's the end of their time with Chucky (for now?) They break down everything that they find strange about this remake, comparing it to the original, but judging it on it's own. They also take some time to discuss Coraline on 3D, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and a beloved Nickelodian television show, As Told By Ginger. And at the end, you get to hear their rankings of all of these Chucky films.
Tune in next week for ALL HALLOWS EVE, ad they kick off their journey with TERRIFIER, and Art The Clown!
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Transcript
Introduction and Movie Context
00:01:12
Speaker
What is up, guys? What is up? We are Morbid Curiosities, and we're back. We're here. We're finally doing it. I'm Nicholas Ewers, and with me is the lightweight champion of the world, the Morbid Mistress of Mayhem herself,
00:01:27
Speaker
Mercedes Martinez. and May I say, I've had quite a few people start calling me like Mistress of Darkness. and I'm just thinking, are they saying that because of the podcast? like i'm ah I am all for that. so it that That was a good a good name you gave me. ah Hell, yes. You got got your own fan base. That's pretty sweet.
00:01:51
Speaker
It's a little nerve-wracking, but yes, definitely. Yeah, I've yet to hear anybody call me anything. they just Nick is usually what they call me, and I'll accept it for now, you know?
00:02:04
Speaker
They're thinking noodle. ah but I know. Yeah, they they are. Well, guys, we've been doing this Chucky thing for a while. I'm sure you've all been listening, and this is the episode you've been the most excited for. Everybody's a big Child's Play 2019 fan. Yeah, everyone's a big fan of this remake that we're about to talk about.
00:02:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty cool to be here. i'm I'm happy to be at the end of this Chucky journey. It sucks we're kind of going out on not the best note, but I think we're going to bring Deliver the Listeners one of the best episodes in the history of this podcast.
00:02:45
Speaker
No pressure, man. This is going to be the best thing associated with this movie. Associated with this movie, yes, I completely agree. People are going to reference this podcast and they're going to be like, oh yeah, have you watched the movie that that episode is based off of? And people are going to like, yeah, I watched that.
00:03:05
Speaker
So we're going to change the world with this one. Yeah, definitely. So spoilers ahead for Child's Play 2019. Nick, start us off with this. What did you think of this movie?
Critique of Child's Play 2019
00:03:18
Speaker
So yeah, I thought this movie was pretty bad. i I didn't love it. got to say, maybe not even the worst of these child's play movies. We're going to rank all of these at the end of the episode or near the episode, guys. So stick around for the full thing. um That might be a pretty divisive part of the episode.
00:03:41
Speaker
Or we might have the same exact rankings. I feel like that's a possibility. I think they'll be similar, but as we all saw, or well heard with Seed of Chucky, you know, that changed your life in the best way possible. And I'm over here hating the movie so much and jaw dropped when you just came out and was like, I enjoyed the fuck out of this movie or whatever you said, basically.
00:04:08
Speaker
So yeah, it'll be slightly different. Seed of Chucky made me a born again Christian. um It changed my life.
00:04:20
Speaker
I'm here to preach about it now. You're going to lead a cult now Seed of Chucky. Yeah, guys, we're a little tired today. Let's just say it's like 2 a.m. right now when we're recording. you know Yeah, let's say 2 a.m.
00:04:36
Speaker
Yeah, we put in the hours for you guys. We've just, the man hours. But back to the movie at hand. I'll talk about a few positives. I have ah a little bit of an appreciation for what this movie is doing.
00:04:49
Speaker
It is full-on remake. it's It's not just taking the movie and doing the original 1988 Child's Play and doing some kind of recreation or some pale imitation.
00:05:06
Speaker
It's trying to actually take the concept of the movie and remake it. So I'd like to give it credit for that. I do find it a little weird. There's remnants of Don Mancini's original script in this movie.
00:05:19
Speaker
Hearing him talk about it in the dock of Chucky and then watching this. It's not a one-to-one, but it's still kind of there, which feels weird because Don Mancini and Universal have no attachment to this movie. It's just Orion who did the original Child's Place. So part of me was like...
00:05:38
Speaker
Did Orion just go like, hey, we'll just dust off this old script. We have the rights to the child's play name. And fuck it. We'll just do this and capitalize on this like remake, this like horror remake craze that was like happening around the time of this movie and that is still happening to this day.
00:05:58
Speaker
Maybe it's never ended. Maybe it's always been happening. But I find all of that very weird, but I do appreciate the fact that it is ah true remake and it's trying to do something different than the original.
00:06:11
Speaker
What it does is pretty bad almost all around. This movie feels tragically miscast. nobody really seems to be knowing what they're doing.
00:06:24
Speaker
Aubrey Plaza is kind of just all over the place. Like, one moment, she's her Parks and Recs character. The next moment, she's like...
00:06:35
Speaker
very openly just banging this like guy in front of her kid, like not even really caring, but she's like playing it as, like, I'm the cool mom, but the movie doesn't understand. That's not really cool, and it's probably traumatic for your kid to deal with.
00:06:51
Speaker
She keeps saying there's stuff weird about Andy, and it's like, Andy's kind of a normal kid. He's pretty chill. He just hangs out on his phone. That's, like, better than a lot of kids nowadays.
00:07:02
Speaker
Right. it's like people keep saying things about andy but the movie's not really showing it brian tyree henry i love the guy so much paper boy go watch atlanta if you guys haven't i don't know how he keeps ending up in like such bad movies not all of the movies he's in our bed but he's slaving away in those goddamn king kong disasters the godzilla king kong disasters I know I'm going on forever, but it sucks to... I mean, good for him. Get paid, dude.
00:07:34
Speaker
He actually is probably the best performance in the movie, in my opinion, um as Detective Mike. And then just the last thing I'll touch on is Mark Hamill's performance as Chucky.
00:07:48
Speaker
It's so just, is this the worst thing Mark Hamill's done? it's Is this his worst for you and voice acting credit? This is the Joker. This is Luke Skywalker.
00:08:00
Speaker
What have we reduced him to? He sings a song at the end of this. I fell asleep to it. It was pretty bad. and haunts my dreams. And it goes on for a while. And then it's at the end of the credits. It's it's obnoxious. fell asleep to it. That means you consider it a lullaby now.
00:08:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's more like a fucking sleep paralysis demon. And I'll pause my shitting on this movie at the cast. You want to take it from there?
00:08:30
Speaker
Yeah, i I remember when it was coming out, like I told you a little bit about how, or wait, no, that was actually a different one. But um no, when it was coming out, I wasn't too hyped on it because i was just wondering why are they going to remake Child's Play? It's perfectly fine on its own.
00:08:51
Speaker
And then when i watched it, I could not stay focused on it because of how stupid I thought it was.
Character Analysis and Casting Issues
00:09:00
Speaker
And i understand they were trying to get into like, you know, the techie side of it. Oh, he's AI.
00:09:08
Speaker
He can control everything in your house. which kind of watching it now makes me laugh because the movie Megan, it's not really a spoiler, but spoiler, guess.
00:09:21
Speaker
I don't remember how much, but when they were making the doll in Megan, they were saying that she's going to be close to how much a Tesla would be, if I'm remembering that correctly. So this doll, I'm wondering how much does this buddy doll cost for these people to go in this...
00:09:40
Speaker
janky looking store to buy one for their kid and you know it basically be their alexa in the house but anyway it was very strange i could not latch on to any other characters i like aubry plaza but i do not like her in here they kind of make her seem trashy andy's character he's yeah like you were saying he He seemed perfectly normal, but everyone's kind of the the plot kind of makes it seem like he's a he's a weird kid or just an outcast.
00:10:13
Speaker
But if you really think about it, they move to a new city. So, of course, he doesn't have friends. And his mom's kind of making it seem as if he never has friends. So she bought him this doll to try to make up for them moving or, you know, blah, blah, blah.
00:10:29
Speaker
They don't even have like a good chemistry with each other as ah mother and son. At least I didn't pick up on anything like that. Even in Child's Play 2, the foster mom had more of a motherly type of nature side to her.
00:10:46
Speaker
than Aubrey Plaza did, but that could just be because i don't see her as a mother figure. um So the casting wasn't great.
00:10:57
Speaker
the The storyline in here was weird. I can appreciate that they were trying to take it in a different direction with all the AI stuff, but my God, i i hate this movie.
00:11:15
Speaker
Hell yeah, let it out. This movie does try really hard to be different from the first child's play in a lot of ways, except for just the characters' names, really.
00:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. um you You have all the character names the same. i actually didn't remember that they had someone be Detective Mike Norris in here.
00:11:42
Speaker
That's just how little ah attention I paid to this movie when I first watched it. So watching it this time around, I was thinking, wow, they really brought in every character from the original except Maggie.
00:11:53
Speaker
That could be why they have her crappy boyfriend in here, Sean or whatever, just to kind of take the place of Maggie and be one of the first kills. But none of these characters were great. um And were you going to say something before I go off on the boyfriend?
00:12:12
Speaker
I'll say one thing about the characters and then, hell yeah, go off on Shane. I actually didn't know the cast going into this movie. I didn't watch a trailer. I didn't know what Chucky looked like. I knew nothing about it. I thought it was just going to be a one-for-one remake.
00:12:29
Speaker
When I saw Aubrey Plaza, I was like, oh my god, is this going to be good? That's pretty cool. And then when I saw Brian Tyree Henry show up, I was like, damn, you got him.
00:12:41
Speaker
like fucking cool can call i love him i love atlanta he's in a movie i think it's called seven days i thought that was pretty good too he's in a couple other like notable things not just bad movies yeah i was just like ah kind of getting on board because i had some familiar faces and that does get the movie like to like half a star for me too ah right now i've got it sitting at one and a half stars but the familiar faces did like Give me a little bit of comfort. It felt good like seeing people even though.
00:13:11
Speaker
Yeah. Aubrey Plaza is so just not doing anything I'm vibing with in this movie. But yeah. Shane, you got some Shane shit Shane, I called him Sean. on Yeah, he oh my God. i Just for one, i hate it when single parents nonchalantly flaunt their encounters with whoever they want to be with in front of their kids as if it's not going to, like you said, traumatize them in some type of way.
00:13:48
Speaker
They meet Shane. We meet Shane as an audience with them banging within the kitchen or living room with the door unlocked and Andy just walks in on them. No kid wants to see that. No one wants to see that shit for one. But also,
00:14:02
Speaker
he is in such a Andy's in such an awkward position because they just moved, so he's uncomfortable. He doesn't have friends here, and his mom looks like she is always working. And then when she is home, she is just with this douchebag of a boyfriend that she has.
00:14:19
Speaker
and I'm just sitting there thinking, what qualities about this guy does Karen um find attractive in here or boyfriend material?
00:14:34
Speaker
like Because he does not have a good personality. He seems very fucking like an asshole, pretty much. he's He's flat out mean to Andy, and she doesn't give a shit until he actually yells at him. Yeah, make him like rich or something, or make it like Aubrey Plaza's just into married guys or something. Something, but right. He's hiding his family, his like wife and two kids from her. and there's There's no appeal.
00:15:02
Speaker
And there's no offense to the guy or the way he looks at all, but Aubrey Plaza's fucking hot. So it's just like, give us like somebody believable for her to like be with her desire.
00:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, he definitely looked way out of her league. So seeing them make out, just seeing them standing next to each other, that was such a strange-looking couple to witness in this movie. So they definitely could have gotten ah different character if they decided to bring this guy into the mix. But he he's such a fucking asshole. Yeah, he just shits on Andy the entire time. and Jumping into the way he dies, were you satisfied with it? I feel like I was m semi-satisfied with his death. What do you think?
00:15:59
Speaker
It was very over the top. i actually can't say that I was disappointed with any of the deaths. I found the deaths pretty entertaining. His, I just felt really bad because it was, yeah, he sucked ass, but it's like he's taking down Christmas lights and Chucky knocks over. i can't even call him Charles in this one.
00:16:21
Speaker
Yeah. ah there's like no just justification charles is dead in here pretty much there's he's not even a character which side note the naming thing i found so weird because yeah he calls him he's like what is my name and he's like han solo which did you just pick that because the voice actor is luke skywalker Probably. It seemed like a weird coincidence, but then he's like, Chucky, okay. And I was like, that's a good bit.
00:16:50
Speaker
But Han Solo was like a weird choice for a kid in 2019. You're telling me a 2019 kid gives a shit about Han Solo? Like, maybe. i don't know.
00:17:01
Speaker
it doesn't... I doubt it. Right. But... ah He's like hanging up or taking down Christmas lights and Chucky knocks down the ladder and he falls and splits one of his legs or whatever. It's like really gross and he's tangled up in the lights. and his daughters When they cut to his daughters, I was like, now I feel bad for the guy. like You know, these kids aren't going to have a father. Like, he seems like he's actually good to them, and they seem like they like him.
00:17:33
Speaker
So, I don't know. They don't know how bad he is in his real life, but damn, they're just going to be left without a dad their whole life. He's just got his legs broken, and he's crawling away from this, like, big-ass, like, snowblower, I think it is. is ah it Was it a snowblower or a lawnmower? It was a snowblower, right?
00:17:54
Speaker
I thought it was something for the lawn, not the snow. I couldn't tell because of the big blades. I was like, is it a snowblower? but And the Christmas lights, too, made me feel like it might have been. but Maybe it was a lawnmower. I couldn't tell. but so Anyway, he's about like this thing kicks on because Chucky like just makes it go after him and Fucking, yeah, he basically gets his head all chopped up.
00:18:20
Speaker
It's so gross. and He was scalped. It was a very hard death to watch. i I don't know if I had many issues with it, because then they take it to the next step, ah and Chucky saws off his face because he watched like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and puts it on a fucking...
00:18:40
Speaker
Watermelon. And then you get watermelon shenanigans. And I mean, and the watermelon stuff may be the best part of the movie, honestly. And so Shane's death got us that then. I mean, what are your thoughts on the watermelon death and Shane's or watermen ah watermelon stuff and Shane's death?
Comparisons and Recommendations
00:18:59
Speaker
So I felt no sympathy for this man whatsoever. what about his kids? Even when they showed it showed his two kids um look behind them because they heard something, I was just thinking, you know, this guy, he's probably a shit dad anyway, because the amount of times you see him with Aubrey Plaza in here, it just makes me think this guy is working and then going to see his mistress.
00:19:23
Speaker
He's probably barely home for his family. Even when he got home, you just see the kids wave to him. His wife doesn't. I'm assuming that's his wife. So did not give a shit about that part and when he died. I was happy that he died.
00:19:37
Speaker
it was funny because... They are automatically cut to ah Andy waking up, and then he's walking out. And when you see Shane's face, I was thinking, wait, that's not his face, right? I was confused.
00:19:52
Speaker
But then they show Andy run back, and then... realization hit me that was very odd to see but it was amusing just his facial expression and how his face still looked like his face like uh he still had his eyeballs intact and everything that was that was gruesome but i dug it it was it was funny for a guy who's such an asshole so i need to come up with a better word for this guy but that's what he is an asshole
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah, I had watched the movie with my girlfriend and she like was like how did his eyes stay intact? Like when they put him on the watermelon and I was like, it's just, don't know, movie. I forgot what I said.
00:20:37
Speaker
um yeah I think I had some dumb justification for it. It's makeup effects. Shane, his last interaction that he had with Andy, actually, I found like incredibly inappropriate, where he like brings him into his room and closes the door. This is like what makes Chucky end up going and like killing Shane in such a brutal way.
00:20:59
Speaker
But Shane essentially like punks him out. He's like, what? Do something, kid. Do something. You think you're tough? Because Chucky scares him in the bathroom, and he pees on himself, which it's like, OK, come on, guy. Get it together.
00:21:12
Speaker
Right. Like, you're peeing on yourself. What the fuck are you doing? Like, on your face? It's ridiculous. Maybe he did deserve death then. did. If he can't handle peeing in a toilet. He did. He definitely did. And then Aubrey Plaza just defending her kid, saying, hey, you know, if there's something going on with him, just let me know and I'll take care of him because you're not his dad.
00:21:41
Speaker
Just that little argument did not seem believable at all. i don't know. I don't like her performance in here. i like her in other movies. Just I don't find it convincing for her to be a mom in this movie.
00:21:54
Speaker
I don't know if she's played a mother in other movies or anything. um i haven't seen a lot of movies with her. The few that I have seen I do like. Just not this one.
00:22:05
Speaker
Have you seen Ingrid Goes West? No. I love that movie. I love that movie so much. It's ah Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, and then um I can't remember his name. I always fuck up his name somehow, but Ice Cube's son, he's in it.
00:22:22
Speaker
It's a great movie, so funny. One of my favorites. It's like a comfort watch for me. If you want a good Aubrey Plaza movie, don't watch this one. Go watch Ingrid Goes West. It's a fucking hoot.
00:22:34
Speaker
Have you seen the to-do list? I haven't, no. Okay, she's in there and that's what I pretty much know her from now.
00:22:44
Speaker
I know she was in Scott Pilgrim too. Oh, yes. Yes.
Exploration of Other Films
00:22:48
Speaker
When she's in the to-do list, you know she plays such a stuck-up nerd and then she wants to become very sexually active so that way she can lose her virginity to this popular guy that she likes.
00:23:02
Speaker
and just her whole journey on doing it is so fucking insane. It's a good laugh. It's so fucking weird. So yeah, I mean, if you want to watch a weird movie with Aubrey Plaza, go for that one too.
00:23:18
Speaker
Yeah, ah Ingrid Goes West is pretty weird, too. i just added that to my watch list. My Old Ass, that came out last year. That was really good. She was in Megalopolis last year, Francis Ford Coppola's most recent movie.
00:23:32
Speaker
It's giving a wild fucking performance in that one if you want to watch a bad movie with a very interesting Aubrey Plaza performance. But to your point about her behavior in that scene when she confronts Shane... You just can't do that when you your character is also... I forgot her name from Parks and Rec, but when she's also playing April.
00:23:58
Speaker
When she's April half of the movie, she can't be serious mom. Because April wouldn't have kids. April wouldn't want anything to do with it. You can't give me April and then fucking make her be serious mom.
00:24:14
Speaker
It just isn't, it's conflicting for me. I'm not buying it. Yeah, I've never seen that, but definitely did not buy that performance from her.
00:24:26
Speaker
Yeah, she, yeah her her her presence in here, just as a mother, i don't know, she could have been a different character in here if they really wanted someone else in here, but... She could have been Maggie. You mentioned she was cut out of the movie.
00:24:42
Speaker
They gave her death to the worker who reprograms Chucky and kills himself. I was like, ah that's when I knew this was off to a rough start. It begins with a commercial, which, okay, makes sense.
00:24:55
Speaker
I mean, everything you're doing, Megan just did better a couple years later. Right. like I saw I liked it when Megan did it like okay cool I know you came first you should have done Megan should it just been Megan the whole time we have Megan 2.0 coming out this year everything should be Megan but she can dance what can this guy do he can sing apparently Yeah, but yeah, that's how I knew we were off to a pretty rough start was when they give the awesome death that Maggie has in the first movie.
00:25:31
Speaker
Just they toss it off to this guy at the beginning who just kills himself in the background. And it's like almost played as like a gag. Yeah, and then that was the reason, or he was the reason why the buddy doll in here turns evil pretty much because he basically programmed all of the standards that ah standard settings in here.
00:25:57
Speaker
like he turned them off. I don't know. I just... I didn't like the way that they had set it up. I understand how why they were setting it up um for that, for a buddy to be like this, but it just seemed too, what, formulated?
00:26:17
Speaker
i don't know, that whole, have I mentioned I don't like this movie? Yeah. Yeah, it's easy. It feels kind of lazy. It's yes the the most basic reach for going from the original Child's Play, which is kind of convoluted. They're like, you know, a serial killer gets shot and is dying and does a voodoo chant and puts himself into a doll.
00:26:40
Speaker
That is epic. ah Yeah, I don't say convoluted in like a derogatory way, but I would consider it pretty convoluted. But this one is just like, hey, what if we take that and just don't do anything interesting?
00:26:54
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, let's just do the most obvious basic thing. And yeah, then just begin the movie and we're off to the races. Let's go in on Buddy's appearance in here. so Buddy is the name of the doll.
00:27:11
Speaker
so He's supposed to be the Chucky doll. um Well, yeah, he is Chucky. He is named Chucky in here. the The doll itself is called Buddy. And i fucking cannot stand the way his face looks. he yeah He has like strange expressions when he does talk, even when Andy's trying to get him um prepared to scare Shane.
00:27:38
Speaker
and telling Chucky, open your mouth really wide. Try to open your eyes really wide. He just looks like the kid YB from Coraline when his mouth was sewn open by the other mother.
00:27:52
Speaker
Don't criticize YB. I love the movie Coraline. I'm not criticizing YB. I'm saying that they were trying so hard to get this doll to look creepy, and he just looks strange. or strange Sidebar.
00:28:10
Speaker
Mercedes, you love Coraline? Next time it comes out in three d go see it in theaters. I highly recommend it. It is such a great experience. Same to the listeners, too, if you're a fan of Coraline. I have been dying to go see it in ah theaters and in 3D.
00:28:26
Speaker
Well, I did see it in theaters, um but I want to see it in 3D because so many people have talked about it. they They just went on a date to go see it. I'm like, motherfucker, I want to go see it in 3D.
00:28:37
Speaker
So yeah, definitely need to do that. I saw it last year. So great. ah Great. Best use of the format is stop motion. Second recommendation, Nightmare Before Christmas in 4DX.
00:28:49
Speaker
Great date night. ah They do that around Halloween. So guys, I mean, these movies, they make money when they're in theaters, so they're going to keep re-releasing them. Go check them out while they're doing it. Great experiences, both of them. Great date nights.
00:29:02
Speaker
I even um took my husband on a date night. ah I think it was at the Congress Hotel. No, I can't remember. But it was um but somewhere downtown and ah they were playing the Nightmare Before Christmas movie, but they had a full-on orchestra on stage playing the entire soundtrack. It was so fucking surreal. I was in heaven. That's so awesome.
00:29:31
Speaker
Yeah, but the 4DX is like a roller coaster that moves with the music. So if you're a fan of the music, that really works too. Great experiences. Guys, go check these things out that we're talking about.
00:29:43
Speaker
Hell yeah. This is why it's the best episode ever. Yeah, we're not even talking about the movie anymore. yeah It's always when we start talking about music or yeah, when we talk about music, that's when it starts to trail off for the better.
00:30:00
Speaker
Hell yeah, but this one came from the, what I thought was YB slander at first, but I'm glad to know a fan of YB. Yes, I love YB. Should this be a YB podcast, just the rest of it? like I even got pissed off ah at Coraline when she was just dissing YB, just calling him, why were you born? Damn, man.
00:30:21
Speaker
Kid's doing nothing wrong to you You're just being a little shit to him. But i love Coraline. Yeah, Coraline. Good insult. Good style, too. I'd like a Coraline doll.
00:30:34
Speaker
Oh, my God,
Engagement with the Audience
00:30:35
Speaker
yes. Yes, I love all the, I'm seeing a lot of um pages on Instagram of dolls being created that have the Coraline aesthetic, well, the other mother aesthetic. They have button eyes, they have kind of ah melancholy faces, and they have the stringy yarn hair, and it looks so cute. I i need one. I need one of myself. I need to start making those.
00:31:01
Speaker
I wonder if we could do a Chucky in the style of Coraline. Chucky doll in the style of Coraline. That would be a good mashup. Listeners, make it happen. Hell yeah. Let's fucking go with that one.
00:31:15
Speaker
We'll put it on a t-shirt. A t-shirt? No, man. We got to go the whole fucking way and make the damn doll. we will If a listener can make it happen, i mean I'll do the research and I'll figure out how to how to get a doll how to get dolls made for us We need your guys' support on it.
00:31:35
Speaker
We didn't get too much support on Slaughterball, so that's that might be going down the drain, but if you guys want these little dolls, ah the Chucky doll in the form of Coraline, let us know. Rate us five stars. Comment on our Instagram what you think.
00:31:51
Speaker
Yes. Hell yeah. I hope people do this. Give us the concept art, and we'll bring it to life. It can happen. We'll see. It'll happen. If they're listening. If they've made it this far.
00:32:04
Speaker
They're listening. They're always listening. um The Coraline talk is what got them in here. They were like oh, people are talking about Coraline. he We should cover that.
00:32:16
Speaker
I would. i mean, ah well figure we'll figure out a way to work it in. I mean, we'll find an excuse Because a lot of people that I have brought up Coraline to, lot of them have said, oh, that movie scared the fuck out of me or it was so disturbing. How do you like that?
00:32:36
Speaker
One, how are you asking me of all people how I like that? But also, it wasn't that fucking scary. But the fact that other people think that can be it can be in the podcast, it's worthy.
00:32:49
Speaker
We could do maybe like a quote unquote like scary kids movie season where we have like that. or And like I would put like Jumanji on there because that scared me as a kid. You know, we we could make something work.
00:33:03
Speaker
We can fucking put some episodes of Goosebumps in here. we have to. Oh my God. Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm sorry. Let's get back to the movie here. We'll do We'll do it. We'll make notes of it in our pod in our notes page. Let's not forget to do that.
00:33:18
Speaker
hello yeah Listeners, you're getting you're getting a good one. you're You're helping us brainstorm here. Tell us what you guys would want us to cover. Let us know in the comments. Yeah, get throw some season ideas out our way. like Let's get creative. I think that would be cool. Throw some concepts. We'll you know maybe put them in our docket or whatever. Mm-hmm.
00:33:41
Speaker
Hell yeah. um but Chucky's ugly look. Yes. Did you like his look in here? No, it was the worst of the Chucky looks. I gotta say, I did respect that they were doing something completely different.
00:33:56
Speaker
I thought that they should have went with the bear Chucky from the very beginning. Make that the look of the buddy. That looked cute, and it looked scary. It was the most terrifying one at the end when shit was like hitting the fan. Those razor blade drones and then those bear Chucky's were the scariest, but...
00:34:16
Speaker
That was the best design out of all the buddies, and I kind of wish that was the one that we had to look at the whole time. I'm looking at the fucking, like, a picture of him right now the whole time we're recording, and it just looks fucking ugly. it's And not even, like, cool, ugly, like, Bride of Chucky. It's just not...
00:34:36
Speaker
Good. no It's not appealing. No one would want to own this. I appreciated the fact that they were like doing the face thing, but then it's it seemed like they were leaning into how ugly it is. And it's like, guys, what Tom Holland did so well about the first movie, the director we did not mention on that episode,
00:34:57
Speaker
What he did so well in the first movie is he took the good guy doll and that was cute and lovable and made it actually like frightening and scary. And it continued to be scary and get even more scary and fucked up as time went on and like gross.
00:35:16
Speaker
And this just doesn't work. It like Megan did it better.
Deeper Dive into Film Elements
00:35:21
Speaker
The only thing that I liked about this Chucky is there were certain um shots where he's standing next to Andy and it basically looks like a toddler is standing next to him.
00:35:37
Speaker
So even when Andy locked him in his closet, when he opens the closet, you see Chucky with his little knife and And he just looks like a little kid in there. So I thought that was cute, I guess.
00:35:53
Speaker
um And one thing that I did find a little um interesting was how the original child's play was supposed to be called Batteries Not Included.
00:36:04
Speaker
Right. Yeah, but Spielberg was doing short or something based off that. I forget. Spielberg had that name and was using it already, though. Before Spielberg was even like the Spielberg we know today, I think he had done Jaws at this point.
00:36:21
Speaker
I thought it was cool that in the original, you have Karen finding or seeing the batteries come out of Chucky's box. And then when she opens the back part of Chucky to find that he has no batteries, but then he starts talking.
00:36:37
Speaker
That was how that movie ended up. But this one, they have him with a battery in him, obviously. And then they need to take him out or take the battery out. I don't know. I thought that was a cool little correlation there.
00:36:52
Speaker
No, I agree. I completely agree. I also, I had some of the details wrong. I'm pretty sure about batteries not included. I just want to get on top of it. I think it was a made-for-TV movie, and and Indiana Jones was something that Spielberg had made already at that time, too. Maybe also Temple of Doom. I'm pretty sure he had done it by 88%.
00:37:13
Speaker
But he wasn't the Schindler's List like I can make any movie Spielberg. I just wanted to get a little clear because I said some statements that may have sounded a little weird when they came out of my mouth.
00:37:26
Speaker
Every statement that I say come sounds weird. um So it's okay. At least you're checking your facts. Yeah. ah What did you think about Andy's friends? that They give him friends in this movie. Something that the original Child's Play also doesn't do. This movie hell-bent on not being 1988 Child's Play.
00:37:48
Speaker
At first, I thought they were going to be okay, just a little band of misfits there, but then very quickly, they turn on him, more so the um the the guy friend, ah Pug, which is such a weird fucking name.
00:38:06
Speaker
And Pug was super obnoxious. He calls Aubrey Plaza hot, which it's like, yes, we know that's true, but you don't say that out loud. don't say it. Exactly, especially to this kid.
00:38:19
Speaker
Yeah, unless you're on a podcast, then you get to say it. And name Nicholas yours, then you get to say it. Yes, me exclusively. i get to say
00:38:31
Speaker
He was really obnoxious. he seems like he's definitely not going to be a loyal friend in the long run. ah the other girl, Fallon, she seemed okay. you know She was kind of to herself. ah She was there to help Andy when he needed to you know um get rid of the evidence of Shane's face on the melon. and Yeah, they were super on board for that.
00:38:59
Speaker
they were They did not need convincing at all. so At that point, I was thinking maybe they are going to be good friends, but then right when um Andy's mom was asking, oh, did you two help with the gif that they ended up wrapping up and they were both just quick to say, nope, that was all him.
00:39:21
Speaker
You fucking traitors. just left him in the dark. i thought that was funny. It was funny, but I was like, damn, motherfuckers just threw his ass under the bus right there. They've only known him for like a couple of days. It's weird that they were even on board to help to begin with.
00:39:40
Speaker
Right. so That's why it's kind of it makes you think, where does your loyalty lie here? You went to help him with no question, but then you just fucking left him hanging right there.
00:39:52
Speaker
And he has to do all of the melon stuff on his own, which, I mean, we can talk about now. Or do you have more to say about the friends? No, we can talk about the melon.
00:40:03
Speaker
So, like, they completely bail on the melon thing. Andy just comes up with a lie, like, oh, yeah, I'm giving it to the the neighbor down the hall because she was helping me with homework, which it's like, you've, like, never been over there. What are you talking about?
00:40:18
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And that happens to be Brian Terry Henry, that the detective, his mom. And so Aubrey Plows is like, oh, I'll come with you when you give it to her, which it's like, again, weird move. Why is she coming with?
00:40:31
Speaker
It doesn't seem like she has any doubts. Yeah, why is he coming with? And then I did like the move. Andy gives it to her. And then it's like, oh, let's open it together at my birthday, which it's like, if you had to say something, that was a good card to pull.
00:40:45
Speaker
Didn't know you had a birthday coming up. I mean, Again, this is hellbent on not being the first child's play because isn't it his birthday in the first child's play in this one? It's like not quite his birthday.
00:40:57
Speaker
Yeah, and here his birthday is a few weeks away apparently. so yeah, that that little detail threw me off. Yeah, and then I don't think, ah yeah, she never actually opens it because Andy comes over for dinner, and Brian Tyree Henry seems like he's suspicious of Andy. Right. And Andy takes the watermelon and leaves, but it turns out Brian Tyree Henry's not because he's like, oh, kids don't even want to listen to me. So I found that to be a little weird, but I like the melon shenanigans. I like a good melon.
00:41:31
Speaker
Yeah, I thought they were going to do more with it or maybe even show it splattering open once he dropped it down the the garbage chute thingy, whatever it's called.
00:41:44
Speaker
But they don't even do that. The next time they show it is when ah Detective Mike gets a photo of it. And then in there, the eyes aren't intact on the face, on the melon. You just see the face itself.
00:42:01
Speaker
They must have deteriorated. out Or that. Maybe they fell out and some bird ate them or something. I don't know what happens to eyes after a bird ate them.
00:42:12
Speaker
I like that. No, it was um because i was watching the show as told by Ginger. I've been binge watching that. What are you watching that on? I watched that as a kid.
00:42:25
Speaker
It's on Paramount. That's cool. Oh, man. Oh, my God. Watch it Watch it again. i I would watch it a lot when it came out. I fucking loved that show.
00:42:36
Speaker
And i only got up to, apparently, start of the third season. I didn't know that there was more after that. So me and my husband were binging it, and then we just finished it the other day.
00:42:50
Speaker
But one of the episodes, small spoiler if anyone wants to watch this, There is a type of bird in there and the little brother Carl, who is always up to no good, he has something to do with it.
00:43:04
Speaker
There is an eyeball involved in they don't show it, but the bird eats the eyeball. So that's what came to mind. Yeah, it was gross.
00:43:15
Speaker
They took some weird ass turns in the last season. I will say just watching it, they you're kind of left depressed at certain points. So fair warning on that.
00:43:28
Speaker
I remember it being like a very real show. I loved it and would watch it all the time. And they even had like a special, i don't know if it was a special episode or a movie episode where I think they go to camp or something like that.
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah, they kind of made it and yeah they made it into a movie um when it came out, but on here it was just a couple of episodes that were split up.
00:43:52
Speaker
um Yeah, that one, that was my favorite one. Yeah, but they they have some but they have some really weird turns in the last season. and It's still good, but at certain points you're just thinking, who the fuck wrote this?
00:44:10
Speaker
Why did they write this in here? it's It's insane. You got to watch it. Did they all come out around the same time or did was the last season made later? I think that was um right after she goes to this boarding school. So I could be wrong, um but I thought it was consistently made um because i need to look that up. But it was just a strange ending. I'm not going to lie.
00:44:38
Speaker
I remember it ending on like a cliffhanger and then not seeing anything else after this cliffhanger or something like they, they leave you hanging on something. And then I just never saw the end of that show. That's how everything was. The Amanda show it was like that. Hey Arnold, it was like a cliffhanger and it never got finality. At least cat dog had some finality.
00:45:01
Speaker
They meet their parents. It was nice. Yeah. This one, it does not leave you on a a cliffhanger. it um They do seal it in all together, but it's such a strange fucking ending. You notice that a lot of the episodes, they start... um skipping details when they would go to the next episode and you're thinking, well, what happened with this or what happened? They they were fighting in this episode and now they're buddy, buddy in here, you know?
00:45:33
Speaker
um So in the last episode, they make a fucking big ass jump into the, into another part of life. And yeah, so I want to stop talking about it because i'm going to give it all away. If anyone hasn't seen it and wants to watch it, please go watch it. It's such a great show.
00:45:50
Speaker
It pulls a Rugrats All Grown Up. They end up going in the closet and they're grown up for a whole episode. But it's so much better than that. Rugrats All Grown Up was such a fail, in my opinion. Yeah.
00:46:04
Speaker
I feel like All About Ginger, that was the name, right? as As Told by Ginger. As told by Ginger, I feel like the it ends in a really existential way or something.
00:46:18
Speaker
I feel like it probably becomes like the ah show Undone that's on Amazon Prime. Guys, if you haven't watched it, phenomenal show. One of the best pieces of television I ever watched. ah Go watch it. I had to just plug that in there. It's incredible.
00:46:32
Speaker
But... yeah um as told by ginger the this was our as told by ginger podcast guys i hope you enjoyed it you know rate reviews five stars hell yeah we're the nickelodeon kids we we need to bring all that shit back the fact that we can access those shows now my god so nostalgic it's insane Hell yeah.
00:46:55
Speaker
The As Told by Ginge cast. Yeah. That's what we'll be called. Guys, blow up Mercedes if you wanted to start an episode-by-episode breakdown of As Told by Ginger. Yeah, I'd fully be down to do that.
00:47:09
Speaker
That would be so fucking fun, especially because now that I've finished the show, I just want to rewatch it from the beginning again. i think that took me maybe, i would say, a month or so to watch all of it. Probably a little less.
00:47:23
Speaker
Because i was ah I was watching it at night a lot and falling asleep and then having to catch up on the part that I fell asleep on the following night. So yeah, let me know. We can all talk about Ginger Feltley. And if you want to hear me do an Impractical Jokers podcast, I just watched a full season of that a couple nights ago. So I'm raring to go Practical Jokers. I feel like I've... I don't know if I've seen that. Wow, I'm lame.
00:47:53
Speaker
Savilcano, Q, Brian Quinn, James Murray, and Joe Gatto. Joe's no longer in it, but he's still one of the jokers in my heart. so not Wow, I feel like one of my buddies, he doesn't want a shout out.
00:48:08
Speaker
So this is me, quote unquote, not shouting him out. Tell him to rate us five stars and then we won't shout him out. Until then, he gets shot out on every episode. Until then, Mercedes, shout him out.
00:48:23
Speaker
Well, this is his threat. This is a threat to him right now. Okay, let's call him Cinnabon. Rate us five stars. On Apple Podcasts, it has to be Review 2, Say Only Nice Things, or Mercedes shouts you out on every episode going forward.
00:48:40
Speaker
Yeah. um But every time I'm talking about a movie to him, i ask him, oh, have you seen this movie? And he would always say no.
00:48:53
Speaker
So after a while, there was one time I asked him, have you seen this? Wait, why am I asking you? I know you're going to say no. And he just started laughing because he definitely was going to say Yeah.
00:49:04
Speaker
So he actually has been listening to the podcast, and I think he's been trying to watch the films too. That way he can keep up with them. So I do respect him for that.
00:49:15
Speaker
ah Love the guy. He's amazing. But every time i would talk about cast members or a movie plot, He's just looking at me and saying, I don't know who any of these people are. That is exactly how I felt right now when you said or named all of those people. I don't know who any of those people are. of the jokers? Damn. Yeah.
00:49:39
Speaker
Pretty important to me. You know, that's real low point in life and watching them kind of helped me through it. Good, good. You needed that comfort, that little pick me up. Hell yeah. Bring back taste buds. That's all I have to say and about that.
00:49:54
Speaker
I had a moment like that too. Actually, the moment I just created for you. I created that moment for someone else yesterday. My girlfriend. I was just going off ah at the beginning of Child's Play, ah I guess to bring it back around.
00:50:08
Speaker
um I was ah going off on like huh, no Universal logo. That's, you know, oh, but Orion. And then I started talking about Don Mancini.
Influence of Don Mancini
00:50:20
Speaker
And then she was like, you just started mentioning Don Mancini and he kept saying his name like I know who the guy is. if you like that, though.
00:50:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, ah sorry. Yeah, shout out to Don Mancini. No involvement with this movie, but we love the guy over here at Morbid Curiosities. We do, definitely. Yeah, bring him back.
00:50:44
Speaker
I know, right? For movies, not the show. The show, maybe we'll get to that one day. Maybe. Edit the show and do a movie, and that way I can watch it a lot easier.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Two movies. Put them on Disney+. plus Yeah, everything seems to be on Disney+, plus that isn't Disney-related. How are these movies not on Peacock if they're Universal movies? Universal, get your fucking head out of your ass.
00:51:12
Speaker
Start running Peacock. you put me in charge of Peacock. Just put Nick in charge of yeah in charge of everything. he can make the world go round. i just want more money.
00:51:26
Speaker
That's all you care about. Yes, I'm a greedy, money-hungry monster. Give me money. feel that. Yeah, pay me. Fuck you. Pay me. Please tell me you've seen Goodfellas.
00:51:39
Speaker
I've seen Goodfellas, yes. Okay, cool. Yeah, sorry. I was thinking about that now. But anyway, and um guys, if you can't tell, after the few times that I've said it already, this movie we we weren't fans of. um But, you know, we...
00:51:56
Speaker
We held it together. we watched it for the podcast for you guys. um Is there anything else you want to comment on the actual movie since we went on so many tangents before we go into our ratings?
00:52:11
Speaker
um oh yeah we have to rank the movies too good sorry yeah good call bringing it back around um yeah fucking they killed a cat that's against yeah the rule the rule of filmmaking or storytelling save the cat you're supposed to save the cat they do it in alien not in this though chucky kills a cat um do you how do you feel about cats I hate him.
00:52:35
Speaker
You hate cats? Yeah, I felt bad for this cat because they literally cut to a scene where Chucky is strangling the cat and the cat is screaming.
00:52:47
Speaker
And I was just thinking, oh man, that that's not a good thing to watch right now. i feel i actually feel disturbed. I felt more disturbed at that part than Shane's death or any other person's death.
00:52:58
Speaker
Which was the part that disturbed you? them showing Chucky choking the cat. Dude, Chucky is supposed to love this kid. He wants Andy to love him back.
00:53:09
Speaker
And after he presents him with like the dead cat, Andy's sitting there like in bed, and Chucky's playing the sounds of the cat dying to him in his sleep and just like staring at him like, Chucky, who is this for? Right. This was for your enjoyment, not Andy's.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah, oh that's that's pretty sick. And then Andy, too. The way he like turns on Chucky after Chucky's murdering people, I would not do that. I would try to get on Chucky's side and try and make him think that we're friends.
00:53:43
Speaker
And then when he's not expecting it, then I kill him some way. I like that logic. Another close to final thought, this movie mirrors two separate Marvel movies when the weirdo camera guy who like puts a camera in Aubrey Plaza's bathroom. I found that pretty upsetting.
00:54:02
Speaker
Yeah, that was gross. The first Marvel shot that they do is... When he's recreating or bringing Chucky back to life, they basically recreate the arc reactor scene with Iron Man in the cave. It's like so evocative of that.
00:54:20
Speaker
And then i was like, okay, must be a coincidence. Then later in the movie, when Chucky dies... I felt like him, because he gets stabbed in like his power source, I feel like that was very Captain America Civil War.
00:54:35
Speaker
Like Tony Stark getting stabbed in the power source by fucking Captain America. So I don't know if that was intentional, but I was like, did this movie evoke two separate Tony Stark moments? um if It did probably did. Good for them.
00:54:51
Speaker
Yeah, and there's also another shot that ah replicates um the iconic kid looking out the door from Close Encounters, which movie, you don't get to do that.
00:55:02
Speaker
I know Spielberg, like, I think he might have produced the first child's play. Yeah, you know you're not Spielberg. Quit while you're ahead. Yeah, even though it's like, to an extent, I appreciate I'm being very hard on this movie. The guy who made it has only made two movies. Like, good for him, actually.
00:55:21
Speaker
Being really rough on it. It's incredible that he made a movie. Hopefully he has a career and he makes movies that I, like, enjoy in the future. Polaroid. I don't know. Maybe I'll check that out. Maybe we'll end up watching it for the podcast. If we do like technology or camera based horror movies or something, who knows?
00:55:39
Speaker
Maybe it'll work its way on there 15 years from now um when we're running out of movies. I feel like I've seen that movie too, or I was trying to watch some of it and I did watch a good chunk of it, but it got boring.
00:55:55
Speaker
So I turned it off. It came out the same year as this movie, and then he hasn't made anything since. um He's a Norwegian filmmaker. Lars Klevberg.
00:56:07
Speaker
Yeah. Lars Klevberg. But yeah, this movie, not that great. and Also not the worst horror movie I've ever seen. it's It's competent.
00:56:18
Speaker
I'll give it that. If I'm going to give it a compliment, it's competent. It has kills that I found fun and gross, too.
Ranking the Child's Play Series
00:56:28
Speaker
The kills were better than some of the... but It didn't reach the lows that some of the its predecessors reached, if you can call the Don Mancini movie's predecessors. This feels like adjacent to Chucky.
00:56:41
Speaker
It doesn't feel... There was another like Chucky-esque child's play movie that came out around this time. i don't remember the name, but um this feels closer to that than it does the the Charles that we know.
00:56:56
Speaker
Here we go again with the Charles. So I guess. and get it out One last time. yeah I guess since we're going into our rankings now, um I do have a question. Are we including this child's play, the 2019 film, in our rankings?
00:57:16
Speaker
Yes, I included it in mine, so that would leave us eight. ah Do you want to go one to eight? ah Let's go eight to one, so worst to best.
00:57:27
Speaker
All right, you want to you want to kick us off? You want to give us your list first? ah Yeah, I'll just go straight down from worst to best. ah so ah um mine my wonderful ranking of the Child's Play franchise, starting with the worst one Child's Play 3.
00:57:52
Speaker
Did you expect anything else? uh that that's pretty cool that you put it there pretty cool yeah i had to ah you know i like you a little bit more now what the fuck where did we go how did we get there no not saying i didn't like you a lot to begin with but you know however much i liked you i like you more now You know what? I don't believe you. I feel like this is gonna is going to divide us.
00:58:24
Speaker
So but let's see. Let me finish. Okay, sorry. um So that was number eight. Number seven, Child's Play 2019. ah Okay, cool. This movie sucks.
00:58:36
Speaker
um The one before that, um or the next one, number six, Cult of Chucky. Number five, Seed of Chucky. Number four, Bride of Chucky.
00:58:50
Speaker
Number three, Curse of Chucky. Number two, what do you think my number two is? The original child's play? so close so it is child's play 2 and my all time favorite the original child's play I cannot I cannot replace that one in my heart maybe in a year or so my opinions will change when I rewatch those two films because I do love to watch them around Halloween but right now it's child's play 2 second and then the original child's play wins my heart is number one
00:59:29
Speaker
Hell yeah. and If I remember, I'm going to put applause in right when you said that. Let's Hopefully i remember. Hopefully I have the applause. sure to remind you. Yeah, hopefully I have it saved on my computer still.
00:59:42
Speaker
i don't have to find another free applause. um So where would you say the movies start getting bad? Or you start, not bad, but where would you say you start not liking the movies on your list? What number?
00:59:58
Speaker
Not liking the movies? Yeah. Number eight? Oh, wait. Going from like best to worst? Yes. Oh, sorry.
01:00:09
Speaker
Number six, Cult of Chucky. Okay. so seed ah You kind of like Seed then. I have to say like Seed just because of how shitty of a job Child's Play 3 was and then this one. don't to revel that detail.
01:00:30
Speaker
you don't have to revel in that detail Seed feels very much like a part of a piece with Bride of Chucky. um Like when I think about these movies, I put those two together and but more than I do any of the other movies that they feel. Yeah. So of a whole.
01:00:50
Speaker
Even more than the first and second one. Yeah, I would say so. um Okay. Just because the first and second one, Andy's really the only carryover character.
01:01:01
Speaker
But at least with Seed of Chucky, it's... You got Chucky, you got Tiffany, and it's like their relationship is continuing to grow. And it is like almost a direct like continuation, it feels like.
01:01:14
Speaker
like it's It's picking up the thread that Pride of Chucky puts down at the very end of it. And... Cult is the only other one to really do something like that, but Cult is such an underwhelming follow-up to Curse, but I find Seed to be like a step in the right and like better direction. It like takes what Bride does and makes it, I think, a bit better.
01:01:45
Speaker
Yeah, I agree on that. It does seem um as if those two movies are kind of a whole piece together compared to the first and second.
01:01:56
Speaker
um But yeah, let's hear your rankings from worst to best. All right, I'll start with number eight. My number eight is Child's Play 3.
01:02:07
Speaker
So we have the same number eight. Yeah, i didn't I didn't know you were going to put that at the bottom. I thought you were going to put this one at the bottom. so Oh, no. Yeah. ah When I heard that, I was like, okay, cool. wait We have that in common. it's We can be friends still.
01:02:24
Speaker
Yeah, it almost feels better than like having a number one in common. It's like, yeah, we both don't like the same one. We both think this one just is the worst, irredeemably worst.
01:02:36
Speaker
when you have a strong hatred towards something and you find someone else to bond over that, you guys are bonded for life. hopefully we hit some more movies that both of us really hate our next mini series which guys we said it before but we'll drop it now terrifier we're covering those ones next i feel like we're we may not find anything that we hate within those four but who knows we'll see stay tuned
01:03:07
Speaker
Yeah, it might be a while before we both truly dislike a movie together. Probably. Given our slate that's coming up. But yeah, so my number seven is the 2019 Child's Play remake.
01:03:22
Speaker
All right. Hell yeah. The number six is Cult of Chucky. So we've got the same bottom three going on. And then this is where we start to diverge.
01:03:32
Speaker
My number five is Bride of Chucky. and this But I like Bride of Chucky a lot. I do. I really dig it. um my number four is seed of chucky the movie that revitalized me as a person i feel like it just i saw it and i got my shit together i straightened out my act and and it's only number four And it's only number four.
01:04:01
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, don't want to give it too much credit because it's got a lot of, you know, questionable stuff in there, like turkey baster stuff that I don't want people thinking.
01:04:11
Speaker
I don't want to cheer from the rooftops anymore, but I'm going to be more quiet. ah But yeah, so Seed is number four. My number three is Child's Play 2.
01:04:23
Speaker
No. What? My top three was very hard. I lost sleep over this for days, weeks even. Wow. Yes.
01:04:35
Speaker
But Child's Play 2, I love it. It might end up in my all-time favorite movies list. I feel like it might end up there before chat the first Child's Play, even though, as you guys can tell, that's going to be ranked higher.
01:04:49
Speaker
There's something very special and heartwarming about Child's Play 2. It's like ah Maybe I've said this before on Mike about another movie, but maybe it's like a warm bowl of soup, kind of. I can see myself watching it every time I get sick, ah kind of. It feels like a comfort watch, and I really appreciate it for that.
01:05:08
Speaker
I could see myself watching these movies every time I have a bowl of cereal. Ooh. We can't relitigate that. I wonder if any other movies, I mean, this is the end of our first season. I wonder if any other movies are going to have some fucking breakfast debba debauchery for me to get upset about. We'll see. We'll keep an out for it.
01:05:29
Speaker
Listeners, recommend movies ah with crazy breakfast scenes or crazy food scenes in general, horror movies, though. And we maybe we'll try to address them.
01:05:41
Speaker
There's so many to choose from, so I'm hoping people will throw some ideas our way. And so my number two, this, I fought finalized this today, and I wasn't sure, but I feel confident.
01:05:57
Speaker
My number two is Curse of Chucky. This almost landed at number one, but I got home from work, and I was in my car looking at my ranking, and I was like, There's just a whole middle section of Curse that's holding this movie back from really being just a top dog horror movie. And like its characters aren't all quite there.
01:06:20
Speaker
But this movie satisfies being a fan. It rewards you. And the movie that kicked it off... My number one is Child's Play.
01:06:31
Speaker
This movie, it's special. It rules. i think anytime I'm thinking about moving this from number one, I think about Karen, something Aubrey Plaza like could never this movie.
01:06:44
Speaker
do in this movie It's just this genuine moment of Karen holding Chucky about to throw him in the fire. Then Chucky transforms in the face she makes and the struggle they have. I mean, that seals of the deal. That's one of my favorite scenes in this entire series.
01:07:00
Speaker
And I it makes me feel something whenever I think about that or Maggie's death um or just the ending with Andy going crazy or even the breakfast scene, to be honest.
01:07:11
Speaker
It just all feels so familiar, so comfortable, and I'm very happy to put Child's Play at number one. And that is why I should be President of the United States. Thank you for my speech.
01:07:30
Speaker
At least we can agree on the movies that we absolutely hate and the movie that we absolutely love, Child's Play. but It all just boils down to Chucky, Brad Dourif.
01:07:50
Speaker
He's the man. he He makes Chucky, Chucky. Um... and That's probably why i don't like this film because it is someone else's voice.
01:08:03
Speaker
It is someone else completely different playing Chucky. so um It's no offense to that guy, but it's just you are not my Chucky. That guy Yes. No offense to that because I can't remember his name.
01:08:16
Speaker
Luke Skywalker. That's Mark Hamill. I mean, can't remember names. I got to give him credit. At least you're going with a very famous, very recognizable voice actor who's like iconic for playing a character like the Joker.
01:08:34
Speaker
He just is not a good fit for this movie. ah Brad Dourif, his voice, it's just so sinister at times, but it can be so comedic too.
01:08:48
Speaker
And it just flows very well. Whenever Chucky speaks, it's music to my ears. And watching the child's play, the original, scared the hell out of me as a kid.
01:09:00
Speaker
Took me a while to actually watch it and be okay with watching it and not having to sleep with a light on. and um at night and being able to just put it on either around Halloween time or any other time throughout the year because remember everyone every day is Halloween um but being able to just watch it whatever with a blanket with some snacks just being able to see every scene how unsettling it is how heartwarming ah the relationship between Andy and his mom Karen is
01:09:37
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It goes...
Personal Reflections and Podcast Journey
01:09:38
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it It really ah pulls at all of your emotions because then, yes, you get Karen's death or not Karen's death, Maggie's death. um And then that's when you just know, OK, shit's really going down here and it's just all going to go downhill.
01:09:54
Speaker
What's going to happen next? Well, you already know what's going to happen next, but you still have that feeling of, fuck, what if it happened this way or what if this didn't happen? It's such a good watch and I will forever love this movie.
01:10:08
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<unk> I gotta say to your point about Brad Dourif, no matter how bad the previous movies were getting, which none of them, only like one and half of them were bad or like, you know, it only one of them is truly bad and another one is like just okay.
01:10:31
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But, uh, No matter how low the lows were at certain points, Brad Durif being there just kept it all feeling okay. You had that iconic voice, and...
01:10:47
Speaker
Yeah, that's why you watch these movies. And the one-liners, they work, even if they're like kind of cheesy at times. like it's It's awesome what he was doing here. I hope to see him return to the big screen at least one more time. I don't know where the TV show left off, but...
01:11:06
Speaker
I kind of wish they would just take what they did with Curse of Chucky and then do like el leap forward and figure out something cool with Alex Vincent that isn't Curse of Chucky or a Cult of Chucky. I mean,
01:11:21
Speaker
I may dabble into the series, the TV show again, just just for shits and giggles. But um I do want to mention something before we wrap up the episode that I was going to say before, but I didn't just because I didn't want to give Seed of Chucky so much credit. But...
01:11:43
Speaker
I feel like now that we are at the end of our journey with the Child's Play franchise, I should say it. let me Let me just go for it. so um Remember the scene where they're trying to do ah the switch ah between Chucky, Glenn, slash Glenda, and Tiffany with ah Jennifer Tilly and her driver?
01:12:05
Speaker
the when everyone's just talking to Chucky and trying to get him to hurry up and then he's just like okay everybody shut up and he's just making his full-on speech you know that he pretty much has everything he needs um and he's like you know why do I want to change like I'm Chucky the killer doll and I dig it one of the times that I did see it i was just thinking wow that is so inspirational gave me such a confidence boost because he's short he's tiny he he has anger issues and he finds a solution to deal with all of them no they may not be the best but he finds a way and after all of this shit he has been through
01:12:54
Speaker
He found a woman while he went back to a woman that truly loves him. They ended up having a kid and he has come to the realization that he doesn't need to be in someone else's body. That was that was life changing for me. So um I have to thank Chucky for a lot of my confidence. So thank you, Chucky.
01:13:16
Speaker
Wow, that I got to say that was pretty powerful. I'm not, no, I'm, I i don't know why you're laughing. Because you're laughing at me.
01:13:28
Speaker
I'm not laughing at you. I thought that was pretty powerful. I was going to ask, did you cry or have you cried at any point ah while watching these movies?
01:13:40
Speaker
Like a positive cry, like I love these movies type of cry. Hmm. Not this time around. I, uh...
01:13:52
Speaker
I cried one time when I was watching Curse of Chucky and the original Child's Play, but it wasn't like in a positive way. It was because, wow, those scenes are so sad. Or when Alex Vincent was crying in the original one, that was heartbreaking to see. so um yeah but I had a lot of good moments and good times with these films, but never Tears of Joy. why did you...
01:14:21
Speaker
No, I don't think so. i It is weird. I started thinking for a second right now, like, damn, this is the end of our first season. This feels pretty big. And then, like, I started to get emotional for a second. But and this has been a really cool journey. Like...
01:14:38
Speaker
doing this starting this podcast like was exciting has been exciting every time we record and every time I like start a movie ah that we're about to cover I get pretty excited and I'm like ready to do this every time we put out an episode it's like it It feels pretty good, but there's something like special about completing an entire like horror movie, and ah like a horror movie series and a remake and talking about it, recording it, and putting it out there to the world.
Season Finale and Future Outlook
01:15:15
Speaker
It feels like a pretty big like task or hurdle. I don't know how many people start podcasts, and I don't know like how far they make it, but
01:15:25
Speaker
We finished like a full season. and i know I don't mean to like pat ourselves on the back right now, but it feels pretty cool. and I'm happy to be here and happy to be doing Terrifier coming up. Those like four movies.
01:15:40
Speaker
ah I think that's going to be so much fun. Yeah, it it is And it is a little emotional just thinking back at all of our episodes because we don't want to say a rough start, but we had a start where we were, you could see we were still a little nervous. We were trying to get our footing down with um how we wanted our structure to be.
01:16:07
Speaker
And then we re-recorded our first few episodes and those came out even better than what we originally thought they were going to be so that was cool but just thinking back to our original episode psycho that seems so long ago It does. And it feels like we're kind of, I don't know about you, but for me, it feels like we're kind of a bit more mature as like podcasters since we recorded that, even though I still love the episode and think it was great. But we've learned a lot since our first like three we batch recorded. And I mean, people don't even know, like we have a whole episode that we like scrap that we don't even talk about. Yeah.
01:16:56
Speaker
It's those we don't speak of. Yeah, we won't even say which movie it was for. We'll leave them guessing. Right. But it's like, you know, we've done like a lot. We've put hours into this that people will never hear too.
01:17:11
Speaker
And we started this back in October, November of last year and restarted it and Now, I feel like if we're if we're not fully formed now, we will be fully formed soon. Or we're like at the budding stages of what it'll look like when we're fully formed. I don't know what this podcast will look like a year from now. If we'll even still want to do this a year from now. Like what life will be like. But where we are right now, it it feels good. We jumped over our first hurdle together. And guys, you were here with us.
01:17:46
Speaker
Yeah, you know, we i promise we won't get so emotional after every season that we complete, but this is a good milestone for both of us. We we definitely put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into these first episodes that we... will um pretty much aired to the world for everyone to listen to So, you know, we just want to say thank you for everyone who has supported us and been here on this journey with us.
01:18:18
Speaker
No, we don't have all of our facts all the time. um Correct. And yes, we go on stupid tangents, but you guys are here for us. I hope. But yeah so thank you guys. It's been fun and just...
01:18:34
Speaker
Stay tuned for everything that we have coming in the future because it's going to be a fucking ride. We've been Morbid Curiosities.