Cult of Chucky Influenced By Nightmare on Elm Street & Inception 27 Jul, 2017

“This is Chucky as a mindf— movie. It’s Chucky on drugs. Nightmare on Elm Sreet 3 was an influence but so was Inception, honestly. These are movies where, deliberately — and we had not done this before with a Chucky movie — you question reality. Because it’s a mental hospital, you’re dealing with a bunch of characters whose own perceptions of reality are altered by their own madness, by the drugs that they’re on, by the dreams that they’re having, by the therapy that they’re having. So, that was a fun new genre prism though which to look at this character.”

Mancini also talked about bringing back characters from previous films, including Andy Barclay the original kid from the Child’s Play movies (who hasn’t been seen since Child’s Play 3 outside of a post-credits scene at the end of Curse of Chucky).