After a Good Guy doll is delivered to the home of disabled woman Nica (Fiona Dourif), her mother and support worker dies in mysterious circumstances.
As the family gather for the wake, Nica becomes suspicious of the doll, and the reason why it has suddenly appeared at her home.
Her investigation into the doll becomes more urgent when her family members begin to die - in increasingly violent ways…
Released direct to video, Curse feels like a break from the previous duology.
That shift from the big screen seems to have empowered the filmmakers. With reduced resources, the film goes back to basics as a straightforward pressure cooker. We get a look-in from Chucky’s better-half but this is just a straightforward horror movie.
Set in an old dark house, the first half of the film is effectively tense. We get a few glimpses but the film keeps Chucky offscreen for as long as possible.
Fiona Dourif (Brad’s daughter) is great in the lead role, and the rest of the cast make for an enjoyable rogues gallery of entitled assholes.
Unlike its predecessors, Curse is bleak. It is a feature rather than a bug here, but one misses the humour and interpersonal dynamics with Chucky.
Instead, he is a true movie monster - appearing out of the darkness to wreck and ruin his victims.
A neat, concise entry that proves the series still has plenty of juice.
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