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Child’s Play 3 movie 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 realizes 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.
Child’s Play 3 is a 1991 American supernatural slasher film directed by Jack Bender and written by Don Mancini. It is the third installment in the Child’s Play series, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky. Although released only one year later, the story takes place eight years following the events of 1990’s Child’s Play 2. It was executive produced by David Kirschner who produced first two Child’s Play films.
The film became notorious in the United Kingdom when it was suggested it might have inspired the real-life murder of British child James Bulger, a suggestion rejected by officers investigating the case, and the murder of Suzanne Capper. The film was followed by Bride of Chucky.
About the Story
In 1998, eight years after the Chucky’s second demise in the Play Pals factory, The Play Pals (Good Guys) has recovered from bad publicity brought along by Chucky’s (voiced by Brad Dourif) murder spree and the factory is sweated and resumes manufacturing of the Good Guy dolls. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls and recycles Chucky’s remains. However, the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray still inhabits the remains, and Chucky is soon revived. Chucky is unwittingly given to Play Pals’ CEO Mr. Sullivan, whom he kills. He then uses computer records to relocate Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent).
Still troubled by his past encounters with Chucky, 16-year-old Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin) has been sent to Kent Military Academy after having failed to cope in several foster homes. Colonel Cochran (Dakin Matthews), the school’s commandant, begrudgingly enrolls Andy, but advises him to forget his “fantasies” about the doll. Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst (Dean Jacobson), Ronald Tyler (Jeremy Sylvers), and Kristin DeSilva (Perrey Reeves), for whom he develops romantic feelings. He also meets Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine), a lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets, especially Andy.
Shortly after Andy arrives, Tyler is asked to deliver a package to his room. Tyler realizes that the package contains a Good Guy doll and, excited, takes it to the cellar to open it, only to have Chucky burst free from the package. Remembering the rule that he can possess the first person who learns his true nature (and that with a new body, it need not be Andy) he tells Tyler his secret, but just as Chucky is about to possess him, they are interrupted by Cochran who takes the doll away.
Cochran throws Chucky into a garbage truck, but Chucky escapes by luring the driver into the truck’s compactor and crushing him. That night, Chucky attacks Andy and tells him his plans for taking over Tyler’s soul. Before Andy can attack Chucky, Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy tries to get the doll back by sneaking into Shelton’s room, but Shelton catches him in the act. Upon realizing the doll has vanished, Shelton suspects it stolen and forces all the cadets to do exercises in the courtyard as punishment.
Child’s Play 3 (1991)
Directed by: Jack Bender
Starring: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Travis Fine, Dean Jacobson, Brad Dourif, Peter Haskell, Dakin Matthews, Andrew Robinson, Matthew Walker
Screenplay by: Don Mancini
Production Design by: Richard Sawyer
Cinematography by: John R. Leonetti
Film Editing by: Scott K. Wallace, Edward A. Warschilka
Set Decoration by: Ethel Robins Richards
Music by: John D’Andrea, Cory Lerios
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and language.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: August 30, 1991
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