Although he’s considered one of slasher cinema’s most iconic antagonists, Baby’s Play‘s Chucky and his films aren’t at all times notably scary. Generally it’s because the movie is deliberately blurring the traces between horror and comedy, with an emphasis on the latter. Different occasions it’s because it’s an easy horror movie that doesn’t fairly stick the touchdown as typically because it ought to. By this level, the franchise consists of the unique trilogy, operating from the late ’80s to the early ’90s, two Tiffany-featuring mild reboot movies, two surprisingly wonderful direct to video films, and a remake that stands fairly far aside in tone and execution. There’s the Chucky present, as nicely, however right here we’re going to be specializing in the films.

We’re taking a look at which of the movies is the most scary. Spoiler alert, it’s not the one the place Chucky and Tiffany have a child.

8) Seed of Chucky

That is the one the place Chucky and Tiffany have a child. Despite The Lord of the Rings‘ Billy Boyd giving the function of Glen/Glenda his all, Seed of Chucky is simply flat-out not a very good film. After all, this isn’t a rating of total high quality, it’s a rating of scariness, and even in that regard Seed is an enormous swing and a miss.

To be truthful, it’s actually not making an attempt to be scary. It’s largely making an attempt to a heretofore unseen stage of self-aware humor to the franchise. Bride of Chucky was self-aware, however Seed takes it to a brand new stage, and consequently it loses lots of what made this sequence considered one of the slasher subgenre’s most iconic. There actually isn’t even a daunting second in the movie. There’s a physique depend, however no actual try at constructing tense scenes.

7) Cult of Chucky

This and the subsequent spot on the listing are successfully tied. Cult of Chucky as soon as extra proved that Baby’s Play may work very nicely as a direct-to-video franchise. Nevertheless it’s far goofier than the first film to do this: Curse of Chucky.

Oddly sufficient, when you add extra Chuckys into the combine, Chucky turns into much less scary. It’s extra simply entertaining to see them bounce off each other. It’s counterintuitive, since you’d think about a number of little killers are extra intimidating than one, particularly in the movie’s confined hospital setting, nevertheless it finally ends up being extra humorous than scary.

6) Bride of Chucky

Seed of Chucky outright was a comedy. That was its intention. And, when it hit theaters, the followers couldn’t have cared much less about it. Bride of Chucky, nonetheless, served as a reasonably simple reboot of the first three movies’ slasher vibes in addition to a significant step in a unique path.

Right here, we see Chucky get humanized a bit. His former self, Charles Lee Ray, had a love curiosity, and now that love curiosity has discovered him. However humanized doesn’t imply the humanized human is a very good human. Then once more, Tiffany Valentine isn’t a very good human, both. And in that morally bankrupt camaraderie do we discover the key to Bride of Chucky‘s scare issue. For the most half, it’s humorous, as a result of even after Tiffany is “killed” and transferred to doll type, she and Chuck simply can’t get alongside. We take pleasure in watching them squabble, simply as they take honest cackling pleasure in ending lives. Watching their shared sadism bounce off each other is definitely fairly creepy, even when not outright scary sufficient to make it considered one of the franchise’s most chill-inducing movies.

5) Baby’s Play 3

By the time Baby’s Play 3 was launched, most of the novelty surrounding Chucky had diminished to zero, as had his skill to scare. Irrespective of how robust Dourif’s vocal efficiency (and his work right here is even barely higher than his already wonderful work in the first two movies), it’s nonetheless an antagonist simply getting as much as his standard tips.

However Baby’s Play 3 continues to be the final simple horror installment of the franchise, at the very least for some time. It’s riddled with plot holes, nevertheless it additionally has a fairly tense sequence involving a rubbish truck. Even nonetheless, the scariest a part of the film is the query of why a navy academy full of teenagers would have dwell ammunition on campus (quick reply: in the actual world it completely wouldn’t).

4) Baby’s Play (2019)

2019’s Baby’s Play is arguably much more divisive than Seed of Chucky, and for good motive. It’s much more a horror film about AI than it’s a Baby’s Play film. And, whereas Mark Hamill offers his all to the unenviable activity of changing Brad Dourif as Chucky, the easy reality is that Dourif can’t be faraway from the character. Outdoors the homicidal tendencies and total jerkiness, Dourif simply flat-out is Chucky. The identical goes for Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

However, if seen as an entity separate from the franchise’s earlier installments, Baby’s Play intermittently works. And, to a level, it makes Chucky scary once more, however in a approach he by no means was earlier than. Having a homicidal maniac’s rotten soul inside a doll is for certain intimidating, particularly provided that maniac actually solely enjoys doing one factor. However having the doll be a bit of equipment that’s starting to assume by itself is horrifying as nicely. To not point out, 2019’s Baby’s Play additionally has somebody die from a lawnmower, which is a nightmarish idea that’s floated by way of the thoughts of anybody who has ever minimize the grass.

3) Baby’s Play 2

It might be the finest Chucky sequel, and arguably the highest installment of the franchise as an entire, however Baby’s Play 3 is just the third scariest movie of the saga. Chucky was by no means actually above cracking sensible along with his victims, however Baby’s Play 2 is the place he actually bought in the groove of doing so. That is the daybreak of one-liner Chucky. As an illustration, “You’ve been very naughty, Miss Kettlewell!” and “How’s it hanging, Phil?”

However these one-liners are nonetheless extra threatening than they’re plastic tongue in plastic cheek. As at all times, Chucky enjoys murdering and enjoys getting away with it, however what helps the first two Baby’s Play films stand out as two of the scariest is the undeniable fact that his principal, true objective is to kill a child and take over that child’s physique. Andy Barclay’s a pleasant, likable child, and we don’t wish to see hurt come to him. Baby’s Play 2 makes that hurt nonetheless seem to be a really actual prospect. In spite of everything, he’s been positioned in a foster house the place one dad or mum is each reluctant and extremely skeptical whereas the different has a coronary heart that’s keen to offer Andy an opportunity, however has skepticism take over as the movie goes on. That skepticism prices each foster mother and father their lives, and had been it not for Andy’s foster sister, Kyle, he very seemingly would have died on this film.

2) Curse of Chucky

Curse of Chucky was the film which confirmed not solely that an A-list horror property may work as a direct-to-video IP, nevertheless it may thrive on that lower-rent market. For the most half, direct-to-video sequels are immense steps down from their theatrical predecessors. As an illustration, the Starship Troopers sequels. But Curse of Chucky isn’t simply considered one of the scariest movies of the franchise, it’s flat-out considered one of the highest.

Curse advantages enormously from its budgetary constraints. It’s 99% confined to a big, darkish home, one which’s creepy even with no killer doll inside its partitions. However there may be that doll inside the partitions, and the scene the place the Good Man Doll’s clear, clear face is peeled again to disclose Chucky’s scars just for him to leap ahead is considered one of the franchise’s most well-paced scenes swiftly adopted by its simplest soar scare.

1) Baby’s Play

It is sensible the unique Baby’s Play is the scariest Baby’s Play as a result of it’s a film that owes its existence to considered one of the scariest The Twilight Zone episodes. What nabs the first film the primary spot on this listing is the easy undeniable fact that, at this level, we all know little or no about Chucky. We solely actually get to know Charles Lee Ray in the opening scene, and he comes throughout as a financial institution robber evading the cops. That’s all. It’s solely as soon as he’s been reincarnated, because it had been, as Chucky will we study that he’s homicidal.

A mysterious antagonist is at all times extra intimidating than one we’ve gotten to know, particularly when he’s grown snug cracking one-liners. There may be some cracking sensible in the unique Baby’s Play, nevertheless it’s extra sporadic. That is extra only a killer’s relentless pursuit of a bit of boy. The primary movie is the place the voodoo stuff was hit the hardest and, admittedly, the voodoo stuff isn’t scary, however most of the time the 1988 film hits its goal when making an attempt to spook the viewers. To not point out, the photographs of Chucky the place he’s not animatronic however relatively an actor in a go well with maintain a sure creepy energy.