Child's Play (1988)

Rated R

Runtime: 1 hours and 27 minutes

 

Genre: Horror

 

Director: Tom Holland

 

Writer: Don Mancini, John Lafia and Tom Holland

 

Actors: Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon

Budget: $9,000,000

Box Office: $33,401,286

Positives:

• It feels like an entertaining horror franchise

• It does add emotional weight and grounded believability to a highly unusual premise.

• Dynamic range and impact sound effects that were crispy and tasteful

• Excellent twist

• Chucky fighting other characters are intense and exciting

• Impressive chucky voice over

Negatives:

• Very creepy and dangerous

• Misunderstandings with murder and making up stories

• Need more communication with these characters, rather than being angry with each other. It would make more sense if this movie have more logic with dialogue, tweaking and evidence.

• Too many cuts going on since I haven't seen much with chucky.

• Very lip sync issues on Chucky

• Some missing audio ambience

Final Verdict:

Story/Genre 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (6)

Characters/Dialogue 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7)

Direction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3)

Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

33.5/50 6.7/10