{"id":8688,"date":"2019-06-22T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:29:51","slug":"the-definitive-ranking-of-every-childs-play-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/childs-play-movie-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definitive Ranking of Every ‘Child\u2019s Play’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0<\/span>Child\u2019s Play<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0franchise has gotten a reboot out in theaters this weekend, but without Charles Lee Ray, which begs the question – why? The franchise has waffled over the years between aiming for straight horror, to taking itself too seriously, to fully embracing camp and queer representation, but not all iterations are considered equal. In order to see how this new version stacks up against the rest of its predecessors, we decided to rank each and every one of them.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Cult\u00a0Of Chucky<\/h2>\n
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Of all the missed opportunities in the\u00a0<\/span>Child\u2019s Play\u00a0<\/span><\/i>franchise, this is easily the biggest misstep. It presents itself as a discourse around psychosis, suggesting that Chucky isn\u2019t real and that Nica (Fiona\u00a0<\/span>Dourif<\/span>) actually did kill her entire family. Consequently, this includes Andy, with Alex Vincent reprising the role he originated. But it shows its hand too quickly, and, in an odd turn of events, doesn\u2019t take itself seriously enough. Where the subject matter in\u00a0<\/span>Bride\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>Seed<\/span><\/i>\u00a0flourished under the yoke of campiness, the idea of an unreliable narrator, in this case, would have benefitted from a bit more gravity. And what\u2019s worse is it falls prey to the exhausting trend of using rape as a means of identifying a bad character rather than putting the work into just crafting an awful character from the get-go. It picks at low-hanging fruit when it doesn\u2019t need\u00a0<\/span>to, and<\/span>\u00a0leaves so much to be desired. But Fiona\u00a0<\/span>Dourif<\/span>\u00a0is amazing, so at least we have that. \u202f\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Child\u2019s Play 3<\/h2>\n