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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Charlene Lydon, this week joined by special guest Diamanda Hagan, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, John Lafia’s Child’s Play 2.

Following a series of unexplained traumatic events, Andy Barclay has been taken into foster care, hoping to put the nightmare of “Chucky” behind him. Unfortunately, the Play Pal Corporation has other ideas. Desperate to put rumours about their Good Guy Dolls to rest, the company decides to reconstruct the doll at the centre of that horrific incident. Naturally, the doll takes on a life of its own, and Chucky resumes his fixation on the young victim who got away.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 8th February 2023.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
• Child’s Play 2 at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Peter Suderman at Vox reflects on the Coen Brothers’ work in genre, February 2016.
• Samuel Williamson at Collider considers the versatility of Sam Raimi, January 2023.
• Roger Ebert reviews Child’s Play for The Chicago Sun Times, November 1988.
• Roger Ebert reviews Child’s Play 2 for At the Movies, November 1990.
• Richard W. Stevenson at The New York Times reports on the sale of MGM assets to QINTEX, April 1989.
• Kathryn Harris at The New York Times reports on Ted Turner’s plans to buy MGM, December 1989.
• Cody Hamman at JoBlo looks at how the Child’s Play rights got split across two different studios, February 2019.
• Clark Collis at Entertainment Weekly offers a brief history of the origins of the Child’s Play franchise, February 2019.
• David Kirschner talks to Bloody Disgusting about how Steven Spielberg helped to bring the Child’s Play franchise to Universal, July 2018.
• Jenny Agutter talks to Empire about her life and career, April 2015.
• Christopher Nguyen at Bootleg Comparisons compares the theatrical and television cuts of Child’s Play 2, March 2019.
• Jon O’Brien at SyFy makes an argument for Child’s Play 2 as the best Chucky movie, November 2020.
• Chris Evangelista at /film reports on the “fan consensus” that Child’s Play 2 is the best Chucky film, July 2021.
• Andrew Dominguez at MovieWeb looks at how Child’s Play 2 is very much the bridge to the Chucky television series, January 2023.
• Sharareh Drury at The Hollywood Reporter prints Don Mancini’s statement on the passing of John Lafia, May 2020.
• Christopher Fiduccia at ScreenRant reports on Don Mancini’s decision to model so much of Chucky on Child’s Play 2, July 2021.
• Alec Bojalad at Den of Geek considers the metaphor of the Ship of Theseus, March 2021.
• Bill Bria at Crooked Marquee considers Child’s Play as a metaphor for consumerism run amok, November 2018.
• Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the paradox of Chucky as a singular franchise, January 2022.
• Bill Bria at Crooked Marquee considers Child’s Play as a metaphor for consumerism run amok, November 2018.
• Matthew Costello talks to Bloody Disgusting about writing the novelisation of Child’s Play 2, February 2023.
• Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant considers the back story offered for Chucky in the novelisation of Child’s Play 2, January 2020.
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Filed under: The 250 | Tagged: andy barclay, Brad Dourif, charlene lydon, charles lee ray, child's play, child's play 2, chucky, diamanda hagan, don mancini, horror, john lafia, roger ebert, sequel, slasher |