Taglines: This time, Chucky has a playmate of his own.
Bride of Chucky movie storyline. One month after Chucky’s demise in the last film, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), a former girlfriend and accomplice of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) acquires Chucky’s remains from a police compound after murdering an officer who removed the doll’s remains from an evidence locker. Believing that Ray’s soul still inhabits the doll, Tiffany crudely stitches Chucky back together and reenacts the voodoo ritual which had instilled Ray’s soul inside the doll ten years ago.
The incantations fail at first, but Chucky suddenly springs to life and kills Tiffany’s Goth admirer Damien (Alexis Arquette) as Tiffany looks on with excitement. Later, Tiffany and Chucky have an argument because Tiffany believed that Chucky wanted to marry her. Upon learning he had no intention of doing so- the engagement ring she discovered in his possessions after his death was just something he took from a recent victim- Tiffany locks Chucky in a playpen, and later gives him a doll in a wedding dress to make fun of him.
While Tiffany is taking a bath, Chucky escapes the play pen and pushes the television set into the bathtub, electrocuting her. He then uses the same voodoo ritual to transfer Tiffany’s soul into the bride doll in order for her to feel what he went through as a living doll. Still intent on becoming human again, Chucky plans to retrieve the magical amulet that was buried with Ray’s body to transfer their souls into the bodies of Tiffany’s neighbor Jesse (Nick Stabile) and his girlfriend Jade (Katherine Heigl).
Tiffany sends Jesse a message asking him to transport the two dolls to Hackensack, New Jersey, in exchange for money. Jesse convinces Jade to go with him, but as they pack up, Jade’s strict and overprotective uncle police chief Warren (John Ritter) plants a bag of marijuana in Jesse’s van to frame him. Chucky and Tiffany set up a car airbag to launch nails into his face, then hide the body. Jesse and Jade return and begin their trip.
Outside a convenience store, they are pulled over by Officer Norton, who searches Jesse’s car and finds the marijuana. As he goes back to his patrol car to report it, Chucky causes the car to explode, killing Officer Norton in the process, and Jesse and Jade flee the scene. They stop at a wedding chapel/hotel and get married. Meanwhile, Warren, still alive, tries to escape but is killed by Chucky. While Jesse and Jade are at the hotel, a con artist couple steals Jesse’s money. As the criminals have sex in their room, Tiffany throws a bottle at the mirrored ceiling. The falling shards of glass kill the two con artists. Amazed at the murder, Chucky proposes to Tiffany.
The next morning, a maid finds the corpses of the couple, and Jesse and Jade drive away with their best friend David (Gordon Michael Woolvett), who knew about their plan to elope. David reveals that Jesse and Jade are the main suspects for all of the deaths. He finds Warren’s body in the car and confront them. The dolls come alive and hold them hostage with guns, ordering them to keep driving. David alerts a police officer and is instantly killed by a passing truck. Horrified, Jesse and Jade drive away with the dolls.
Chucky and Tiffany reveal their plan, and direct Jesse to steal a mobile home to use as a new vehicle to evade the police. While Tiffany prepares Jade for the body-switch, Jade convinces her to turn on Chucky. A fight between Tiffany and Chucky ensues. Jade locks Tiffany into an oven, while Jesse pushes Chucky out the window.
Chucky shoots at Jesse, causing the mobile home to run off the road and into a ditch. Chucky forces Jade at gunpoint to take him to his grave site, while Jesse takes Tiffany and follows them. Chucky orders Jade to open the casket and take the amulet, which she does. Jesse then appears with Tiffany and they trade hostages, but Chucky throws a knife into Jesse’s back, and ties up the couple for the ritual.
Bride of Chucky is a 1998 American supernatural comedy slasher film and the fourth installment of the Child’s Play franchise. The film is written by Don Mancini and directed by Ronny Yu, and stars Jennifer Tilly (who plays and voices the title character Tiffany) and Brad Dourif (who voices Chucky), as well as John Ritter, Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile.
Bride of Chucky was released in North America on October 16, 1998 on 2,467 movie screens. It managed to pull in $11,830,855 on its opening weekend, with a total North American gross of $32,383,850 and another $18,288,000 internationally. Its worldwide gross was $50,671,850, making it the most financially successful Chukcy film to date, beating the original film Child’s Play for 6 million dollars.
Unlike the first three Child’s Play films, this film takes a more humorous turn and often into self-referential parody. It does not continue on with the concept of a child victim in possession of the doll, thus the absence of Child’s Play in the title. From this entry and onward, Chucky became the official brand name of the film series.
Bride of Chucky follows the events of Child’s Play 3 in continuity, but not tonally or in a continuation of those films’ overall plot (where Chucky pursued the character Andy Barclay in the first and second films and later Ronald Tyler in the third film). This film also marks Chucky’s new permanent look, a more frightening appearance in which his face is covered in stitches, staples, and scars following his fate in Child’s Play 3. Although made seven years after, the setting is one month following the events depicted in Child’s Play 3, as the previous film took place chronologically in 1998 anyway, eight years after Child’s Play 2. It was followed by Seed of Chucky in 2004, set six years after the film.
Bride of Chucky (1998)
Directed by: Ronny Yu
Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Brad Dourif, Alexis Arquette, Janet Kidder, Vince Corazza, Kathy Najimy, Emily Weedon
Screenplay by: Don Mancini
Production Design by: Alicia Keywan
Cinematography by: Peter Pau
Film Editing by: Randy Bricker, David Wu
Costume Design by: Lynne MacKay
Set Decoration by: Mike Harris, Carol Lavoie
Art Direction by: James McAteer
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence and gore, language, some sexual content and brief drug use.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 16, 1998
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