Cult of Chucky (3½ Stars)

This is the seventh film in the Chucky franchise. After it was made the franchise branched. There's a television series (that I still haven't seen) that follows directly from the events at the end of "Cult of Chucky". Then there was a reboot in 2019 which changes several of the premises of the original films.

The first time I watched this film I was excited at the way it gathered together characters from the previous films. I've calmed down a bit now. It's more low key than the previous films, not as much action or humour. The film takes place in a psychiatric hospital. Nica Pierce has been committed after claiming that a doll had killed her family. That sounds crazy, but it was true. Now she's been moved from a high security to a medium security institution because she's showing insight. "Insight" is an important word in psychiatric hospital jargon. Insight means saying what the psychiatrist wants you to say, whether it's true or false. In this case, Nica has shown insight by saying "I killed my family", even though she didn't.

But Chucky never gives up. His girlfriend Tiffany (who's possessing the body of the actress Jennifer Tilly) takes a doll into the hospital as a present for Nica. That's creepy, but the psychiatrist thinks it's therapeutic. And the killing begins again.

The biggest novelty in this film is that it's now possible for Charles Lee Ray to possess several bodies at once. This doesn't just mean multiple Chucky dolls. He can also possess the bodies of human beings.

"Cult of Chucky" isn't a bad film. It just doesn't excite me.

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