These films are so unintentionally hilarious and silly.
You, a salty water ocean wave.
Knock, me down and kiss my face.
I remember bring terrified with the first one because I was so young. But by the time the third came out me and my cousin were in such great anticipation because of the comical aspect. Lol.
shareI don't think it was meant to be a supremely scary movie in the first place. It's a movie about a killer doll--I doubt the creators expected everyone to take a premise like that dead serious. It was entertaining.
shareThe first one was scary for its time.
"Without management, there is only chaos."
"Can we try the chaos thing?"
The first one was pretty scary and the only one to be really terrifying. The second one was still scary but was centered around more of Andy than just Chucky. The third one was where it got a little goofy and was hardly even scary at all and most of Chucky's one-liners started increasing in films. The fourth one was pretty much a "self aware" entry and added "romance" between Chucky and Tiffany and other stuff that was considered "irony". The fifth one pretty much was 100% comedy and parodied that of raising a kid with "gender issues". Now the sixth one brought back the creepy atmosphere of the first three films (mainly the first and second films and a little of the 3rd and 4th films in the last 5-10 minutes of the film).
shareI was a kid when I saw the first one and was terrified, especially the way they end the film, w/ his burnt corpse, never had any thing that resembles a doll after this movie.
Def scarier when your an innocent kid. Now it's funny and that's why I watch them, but back then.. that first one >.>
It's still scary now. The people who don't think it's scary consider movies with gore to be scary.
shareback then the film was scary. it became a part of pop culture because even adults were terrified of the doll. it really had adults see cabbage patch dolls and such as being strange and eerie.
by the 90s Chucky became mainstream and cool as a horror icon similar to Freddy, but in the late 80s he was new and scary.
to this day i still know a few girls in their mid 20s that are still traumatized by the doll. they strongly refuse to see a Child's Play/Chucky film.
The answer is: dolls that come to life and kill people are scary.
But really, what do you find so unintentionally funny about them? (You're far from being the only one that's for sure.) Is it Chucky's hilarious insults (his cursing in general), or the way he moves his legs when he's holding on to someone or something? Or is it just the fact that he's a doll (or human, if you will) who comes to life and wreaks havoc? If it's the former, then I think everyone would agree that that is supposed to be funny. If it's actually the latter (or all of the above), well then I guess not everyone can take this seriously. But you know, dolls are creepy to some people... especially killer ones; Talky Tina, the original evil doll for instance, is one genuinely scary bitch that we never even see come to life.
Anyhow, while I do find Chucky to be more entertaining than scary (his human-like appearance in the first movie is a bit frightening, though), I must say that Child's Play 1 and 2 (possibly 3) remain effective horror movies (particularly the first one since it begins as a whodunnit) because of the direction, score, and dark atmosphere.
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It's not scary anymore?
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I know, Talking Tina was much worse.
shareIt was the charred body of Chucky and the lady falling out the window that got me as a kid. Think I was about 10 or 11 when I saw this and had very little experience of horror films. As such, I find the film scary as it reminds me of being a scared kid. Lol.
shareI'm not scared of any movie. I don't watch horror movies to be scared, I watch them to get told a mysterious, imaginative, intriguing story which this one definitely has. Reality is what scares me and I watch movies to get a temporary break from it.
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