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Child’s Play 3

Date Released: August 30, 1991
Directed By: Jack Bender
Written By: Don Mancini
Certificate: US: R, UK: 18
Tagline: Look who’s stalking!
Length: 90 Minutes
Budget: $13M
Box Office: $20,560,255

Cast

Perrey ReevesDe Silva
Brad DourifChucky (voice)
Jeremy SylversTyler
Travis FineShelton
Dean JacobsonWhitehurst
Justin WhalinAndy Barclay
Peter HaskellSullivan
Dakin MatthewsColonel Cochrane
Andrew RobinsonSergeant Botnick
Burke ByrnesSergeant Clark
Matthew WalkerEllis
Donna EskraIvers

Storyline

It’s been eight years since the events in the second film; we now see that Andy is a teenager who has been enrolled in a military school. Play Pals Toy Company decides to re-release its Good Guys line, feeling that after all this time, the bad publicity has died down. As they re-used old materials, the spirit of Charles Lee Ray once again comes to life. In his search for Andy, Chucky falls into the hands of a younger boy, and he realises that it may be easier to transfer his soul into this unsuspecting child. Andy is the only one who knows what Chucky is up to, and it’s now up to him to put a stop to it.

Trivia

Under pressure from Universal, screenwriter Don Mancini was asked to begin writing the third film even before the second film was released. Hence, this picture was released only nine months after Child’s Play 2. Mancini has called it his least favourite because he felt he was out of ideas so soon after Part 2.
The movie was the centre of a tabloid panic on its British release, with one newspaper – The Sun – even demanding copies be burned. Journalists claimed the film had influenced two young boys in their murder of a younger child, two-year-old James Bulger, although it was later determined that neither had actually seen this film.
The first film in the series that Chucky in doll form uses a gun as a weapon.
This was the first film in the series to use computers to aid in Chucky’s puppetry – in order to perfect the lip-syncing.
The young adult cast participated in actual war games together.