Child's Play (1988 film)

The Child's Play series is a series of five horror movies featuring an doll named Chucky possessed by the soul of a serial killer and trying to kill his owner, Andy Barclay.

The first three movies are straight horror movies. The fourth movie, released seven years after the third, followed the trend set by Scream in emphasizing humour and lingering less on the scenes of high tension.

The movies are

Child's Play (1988), directed by Tom Holland

Child's Play 2 (1990), directed by John Lafia

Child's Play 3 (1991), directed by Jack Bender

Bride of Chucky (1998), directed by Ronny Yu

Seed of Chucky (2004), directed by Don Mancini (not yet released)

Child's Play 3 was the subject of controvesy in the United Kingdom in 1993, when tabloid newspapers reported that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson had watched the film in the weeks before they killed Liverpool toddler Jamie Bulger. Although no proof of their watching the film was ever presented, and though the film was never banned as some report, many video retailers removed the film series from the shelves in response to the public outcry.