Parents' Guide to

Curse of Chucky

By Brian Costello, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 17+

Heavy-handed blood and gore in sixth Chucky movie.

Movie R 2013 97 minutes
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age 16+

Based on 8 parent reviews

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AgeReviewer Adult
November 20, 2021
age 12+

12 and up

This movie is an ok movie, I love how they try bringing Chucky back to scary after his last movie which was mostly comedy. There is a scene where a woman has an affair with the nanny. Some kissing scenes. Nothing not for tweens. There are violence and swear words. There are scenes where the family drinks though I dont remember smoking.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much swearing
MovieMadness88
MovieMadness88 Adult
April 11, 2021
age 15+

Garbage advertised as Cinema

I think the only people giving this a good review are family friends of the Actors or the actors themselves. Plot: non-existent, sex: gratuitous and aimed at teenage boys, scares: ridiculous (20-something nanny in lingerie murdered while having video sex with employers wife). Add a wheelchair bound hottie (wheelchair from Neiman Marcus made of steel with no cushions) and people running around a house at night making noise and screaming at the top of their lungs while others just peacefully sleep, and you have one big pile of crap. Do not waist your time.
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What's the Story?

In CURSE OF CHUCKY, Nica (Fiona Dourif) is a young paraplegic woman living with her mother, Sarah (Chantal Quesnel), when a mysterious package arrives. The package, with no return address, contains a Chucky doll (voiced by Brad Dourif). That night, Nica finds Sarah dead, and her death is ruled a suicide. Nica's condescending older sister Barb, her husband Ian, their young daughter Alice, and their nanny Jill arrive for the funeral and to help put affairs in order. Alice immediately takes a liking to the Chucky doll, and Nica allows her to keep him. But things immediately take a dark turn. Chucky seems to be moving. Alice tells her mother that Chucky has told her that life is meaningless and that we're all going to die. While speaking with the parcel delivery company to find out who sent the Chucky doll, Nica's cell reception becomes staticky, but she thinks she hears the words "evidence depository." A search on the internet reveals the shocking and deadly history of the murder sprees conducted by Chucky over the years, and the serial killer who possessed the doll. As Nica tries to alert Barb and her family to the evils of Chucky, she realizes that it's up to her to stop him, and to find out why Chucky was sent to her house in the first place.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (8):
Kids say (19):

The sixth movie in any movie franchise is rarely good, and this is no exception. Curse of Chucky is chock-full of heavy-handed moves like rain storms, fake-outs (characters tapping other characters on the shoulder accompanied by bursts of horror background music, for instance), and gratuitous blood and gore. The attempts to tie everything up into a neat bow at the end feel jarring, abrupt, and rushed. It more or less follows the typical horror movie formula of making the characters just human enough to care one way or the other if they're brutally murdered and ratcheting up the novelty in each new death.

And yet, it's not without merit, especially for the sixth movie of a franchise. The dinner scene in which Chucky has poured rat poison in one of the six dinners on the verge of being eaten is genuinely suspenseful, and one of the rare times in which the movie's tendency to go way overboard with the exaggerated tension and suspense is fun in a "whodunit" (whoeatsit?) kind of way. And the character of Nica shows a disabled woman who is, unlike so many portrayals of disabled people, three-dimensional, independent, and capable of being a lead character who can take on the horror movie monster rather than being just another victim.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about horror movies. How does Curse of Chucky compare to other scary movies you've seen? What's the appeal of horror movies?

  • One of the lead characters is disabled. How is she portrayed in the movie? How does this compare to the way other movies depict people with disabilities?

  • There have been seven movies centered on Chucky, with a remake of the original 1988 Child's Play movie in the works. Why do you think these movies have remained popular?

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