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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Charlene Lydon, 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, Jack Bender’s Child’s Play 3.

After years of legal trouble arising from a high-profile controversy surrounding an alleged “killer doll”, Play Pals is back in business. However, the first doll off the line turns out to have a pretty mean attitude. Reconstituted from the remains of the original possessed doll, Charles Lee Ray once again finds himself trapped in a plastic body. Setting out to avenge himself on Andy Barclay, Chucky discovers that his old adversary has been sent to military school. This time, it seems, it’s war.

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 13th 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 3 at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Chucky attends the Horror Hall of Fame awards, 1990.
• Patti Pauley at iHorror takes a look back at the short-lived Horror Hall of Fame, June 2017.
• William Shatner performs Rocket Man at the Saturn Awards, 1978.
• Scott Meslow at GQ looks back on Jason Takes Manhattan, April 2018.
• Declan Gallagher at Entertainment Weekly ranks the Chucky movies, May 2023.
• Noel Murray at The A.V. Club considers whether plot holes actually matter in assessing a movie’s relative quality, August 2012.
• Nicholas Brooks at Comic Book Resources considers the alternate ending to Child’s Play 2, November 2022.
• Jake Dee at ScreenRant considers the alternative opening to Child’s Play 3 that would have featured John Ritter, September 2020.
• Clark Collis at Entertainment Weekly offers a brief history of the origins of the Child’s Play franchise, February 2019.
• Nathan Smith at The Outline considers the Child’s Play franchise as a commentary on capitalism, July 2019.
• Robert Vaux at Comic Book Resources considers the ways in which the My Buddy dolls influenced the design of Chucky, January 2023.
• Alison Stine at Salon considers the Chucky franchise as a study of gender, October 2022.
• Nat Brehmer at Medium considers the deconstruction of stereotypical masculinity in Child’s Play 3, August 2022.
• Jason Bailey at The Playlist makes an argument for Gremlins 2 as an endearingly madcap and meta sequel, June 2020.
• Derek Thompson at The Atlantic attempts to untangle the drama around Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan and Gawker, February 2018.
• Tasha Robinson at The Dissolve makes an argument about the ubiquity of “Trinity Syndrome”, June 2014.
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