Child's Play

Top 10 Fun Facts

1. The working titles for this 1988 film included "Blood Buddy" and "Blood Brother." Had it been produced in 2009, I'm guessing the titles would have included "Blood BFF" and "Blood Homie."
2. E-V-O-OHHH! Chucky's full name, Charles Lee Ray (no relation to Rachael Ray) is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.
3. What a horror-ible actor! Nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Brad Dourif (who played "˜Charles Lee Ray' and provided Chucky's voice) also starred in The Wizard of Gore, Death Machine, Murder in the First, Body parts, Graveyard Shift, Halloween, The Exorcist III. Scared of him!
4. Oh my OshKosh B'gosh! Check out Chucky's red overall buttons as they disappear and then reappear again and again throughout the film.
5. Who's your Mommy? Catherine Hicks (Andy's mother) later played Mom to the Camden kids on "7th Heaven" from 1996-2007.
6. This isn't child psychiatrist Dr. Ardmore's (Jack Colvin's) first time dealing with extreme personalities. (Nowadays, there's a pill for that!) The actor played Jack McGee, the reporter chasing Banner on the old Incredible Hulk TV series.
7. We all knew Chucky wasn't acting alone! See if you can spot the hand pushing him into the fire screen as he attempts to get out of the fireplace.
8. Being violently pushed out of a window is apparently "sooooo 1988." The babysitter's death scene originally had her being electrocuted while taking a bath. The scene was used later in 1998's Bride of Chucky.
9. The name of the TV Channel announcing the death of Charles Lee Ray at the beginning of the movie was W-DOL. W-SOL was probably taken.
10. Writer Don Mancini said that his original script toyed with the audience a bit longer, making them wonder if young Andy was the killer rather than Chucky. This idea was later used by Writer/Director Kevin Tenney in "Pinocchio's Revenge" in 1996. Isn't that Child's Play-gerism?

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