Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky (2004) This series now spans over 15 years since the first ‘Chucky’ movie was made. In that time Chucky has made a successful transformation from a straight horror star to a horror comedy leading man (er…ah…doll). Most sequels get worse and worse but if anything; ‘Seed’ sows new ground and comes up a bumper cropper. Jennifer Tilly starred in ‘Bride of Chucky’ and gleefully continues, this time playing a parody of herself as an ambitious declining movie star. She continually complains about Julia Roberts stealing her roles by sleeping with producers and finally decides to try this career advancing strategy. This time Chuck and Tif (his doll-mate) want to have a real child and since Jennifer Tilly plays the voice of Tif and looks somewhat like her, they choose her to be the mom. Needless to say, this throws a monkey wrench (or perhaps I should say a sharp implement) into her plans for career advancement. Meanwhile their doll son from an earlier all doll grappling shows up without the same serial killer style as his parents and tries to reform them. The movie is filled with inside jokes and hilarious situations but isn’t short in the blood spray department either. There are several scenes paying homage to Hitchcock and the DVD comes packed with extras. This is a very funny horror movie with some very sharp points to it. The DVD was unrated but should come in as an R for: massive arterial sprays, topless puppets, topless ‘Psycho’-like shower scene, really topless people-- that is, headless people, urinating dolls, swearing dolls, garroting dolls, dolls doing something that can make you sleepy, and for the untimely death of the token rap star.