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, Ronny Yu’s Bride of Chucky.
Liberating the remains of the nefarious killer doll known as “Chucky” from a police evidence locker, Tiffany Valentine longs to be reunited with her former lover: the infamous serial killer Charles Lee Ray. However, the reunited couple quickly discover that their relationship was never perfect. In spite, Chucky traps Tiffany inside her own doll body, and the embark on a road trip across the United States in the hopes of reuniting the killer doll with his corporeal body.
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 20th 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.
- Bride of Chucky at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Joey interviews Don Mancini at FrightFest, October 2017.
- Blake Morrison at The Guardian looks back on the media furore around the Jamie Bulger case, February 2003.
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- Jaden Oberkrom at Fangoria places Bride of Chucky in the context of the success of the Scream franchise, March 2023.
- Michael D. Klemm at CinemaQueer considers the queerness of James Whale’s Frankenstein movies, January 1999.
- Playback reports on the production of Bride of Chucky in Canada, October 1998.
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- Jake Dee at ScreenRant considers the alternative opening to Child’s Play 3 that would have featured John Ritter, September 2020.
- Riley Wade at Horror Obsessive considers the queer subtext of the Hellraiser franchise, November 2021.
- David Kirschner talks to Bloody Disgusting about the tensions concerning Ronny Yu’s direction of Bride of Chucky, October 2018.
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