Bride Of Chucky (1998)

Derek and Max hit the road with a couple of dolls looking for a cemetery to watch Bride Of Chucky in.

Transcript

SPEAKER_08 0:09

I'm not getting ready to watch a video.

SPEAKER_07 1:00

And then we with you.

SPEAKER_06 1:32

How are you guys doing? Welcome to another episode of the Stone Screens Podcast, a podcast where a couple horror movie buffs watch scary movies and then talk about them. I am your host, Derek Snyder, and I am pleased once again to be joined by one of the OD co-hosts, Max Bosberg. I hello.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

I I'm back. Back again. Uh you can't kill me. Just like just like our friends that we're gonna talk about tonight. I just keep coming back from the deck.

SPEAKER_06 1:58

Uh d no, I I can I can uh attest to the fact that I did not uh rent or check out or go to Half Price Books and buy uh a Boobie for Dummies book and bring you back uh from this. So like I wonder I wonder if somebody else out there, some some listen one of the screen team, like was like, yes, we need Max back. Uh we cannot keep him, you know, uh in the dark. So let's let's get the Booty for Dummies book, uh, recite the incantation. And I well right now we're not on camera, so I can't I can't say that you're not a doll. That is you're not like in a doll body right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

So I mean you've never seen me and a doll in the same room.

SPEAKER_06 2:46

Yeah, we'll put it that way, and the fact that I can't uh refute that eviden that you know claim right now uh because I can't see you on camera, uh, I'm just going to assume that like that's what happened, and that you know, in the true spirit of the Bride of Chucky uh film, like to really do it the honors, uh, I think that's what happened is that you're you're in a you're you're possessing a doll right now and talking to me through that. So that's how I'm going to envision you uh for the rest of this podcast. Uh and feel free to envision me the same way because I mean there's two dolls in this movie, so I think it would only make sense if you know like that was what happened. Like we're both in uh we're both possessing dolls right now. So there you go, Scream Team.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

Hey babe, those dishes aren't gonna watch themselves.

SPEAKER_06 3:33

You ungrateful asshole. Yeah, see, like that's it, that's exactly what's happening. Like, it's just like the movie. How you doing today, man?

SPEAKER_02 3:46

Oh man, I'm good. I'm good. I'm glad uh we are we are getting on and uh get to talk about this 1990s classic. What you call it? Classic.

SPEAKER_06 3:56

I you know, I this like honestly, like this was the first time that I like really sat down and watched this movie the entire way through. I've seen like I caught like bits and pieces of it, just like when it was on like sci-fi channel or something like one of those like cable channels, like it was just on during like a marathon or something during Halloween, and I would just like catch clips of it. I never really sat down and watched the entire thing. I uh like spoiler alert, I really enjoyed this movie. Like this was a fun watch.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Uh it's a wild ride. I've I've so I we're we're talking about Bride of Chucky. Bride of Chucky, 1999, 1998, yeah, or 98, 1998. Uh never been a huge Chucky guy, but again, I I vividly remember uh the poster, I remember the commercials for this film. But yeah, I I this is like the Chucky, this doll with like all the scars and stuff, yeah, and like the blown out eye is like the Chucky doll I think of. Yeah when I think of Chucky.

SPEAKER_06 5:02

Yeah. The Child's Play franchise is probably my least watched uh horror franchise out of all of them, which is like kind of surprising to me because you think about how big of a pop culture like uh staple uh Chucky is. Like you talk about Chucky and everybody knows like you know who that is.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Well, yeah, I mean he's he's just as popular as uh you know Freddie or Jason or Michael Myers.

SPEAKER_04 5:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Uh he was it was interesting too in the 90s, right? Like he and even though I guess he was uh I guess he started in the 80s, but uh you know he was probably the newest like uh i horror icon before Ghost Space uh I would think uh to to really get into the zeitgeist.

SPEAKER_06 5:53

Yeah, uh 1988 was when the first Child's Play movie released. Uh then Child's Play 2 in 1990, Child's Play 3, 91, uh, and then not until 1998 when we got Bride of Chucky. So yeah, this is the fourth film in the franchise.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Wow. And and then was uh was there anything I mean I know they tried to do, didn't they just try and do like a reboot with Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky uh like a couple years ago, I feel like yeah, in 2019. Yeah, so it's crazy that he like he continues, you know, people people are still trying, still trying to resurrect him.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

Looking at this, like the biggest gap in the franchise was between uh Seed of Chucky in 2004 and Curse of Chucky in 2013.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Um so that's six before a reboot, right? And then the next one was a reboot?

SPEAKER_06 6:53

No, the next one was Cult of Chucky in 2017 and then 2019 we get the Child's Play reboot.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

What the hell? So yeah, Chucky has He's stuck around, man.

SPEAKER_06 7:07

Like he's been around just like quietly like skittering around in the in the dark corners of the of the horror world. That's yeah, and I and again, like it's it's just you know, like he's been around, but again, like not been a not really been at the forefront of my of my person on my radar. Uh which, you know, maybe like maybe this like watching this one, Bride of Chucky, makes me go back and really like watch, like watch through these. Especially like the like the 90s ones, because I feel like those ones would be kind of in the same vein as this. Like maybe Child's Play 3 like is early 90s, so you're getting like that late 80s, like you know, kind of like shticky horror and everything. Uh, but yeah, Seed of Chucky like has to be has to be along the same lines as this one, I would imagine, especially with the way this one ended. Like, we I'm not gonna like give it away right now because we still haven't done the spoiler warning for this movie yet, so which, you know what? Speaking of it, and because we're like kind of teetering or kind of edging on like talking about this film a little bit more in depth, let's go ahead and give the spoiler a warning here. Uh, so I will let you know that the uh two murderer stalls that are riding in the back of your Winnebago are not the most dangerous thing you will encounter here. No, that would be the spoilers for this movie that are just lying right around the corner. Uh, so if you have not seen Bride of Chucky yet, go check it out uh and then come back here and listen to this podcast. And uh let's go ahead and take a quick little break here uh while we work out a few like little technical glitches that we've been experiencing here. Uh maybe Chucky is somewhere in my studio in the dungeon here, uh fucking with my wires a little shit. Uh all right, so I'm gonna go check on that and then we don't go away, Scream Team. We will be right back.

SPEAKER_05 8:56

And we're back. We're back.

SPEAKER_06 8:59

Well, uh as we said before, I think Chucky is running around in the dungeon uh fucking with the Wi-Fi right now because uh Max got disconnected. Uh so Max is now joining us via phone.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Yeah, we're we're we're really we're really digging into the 90s theme of this film. Uh I'm like calling into the radio station right now to get my two cents on Bride's show.

SPEAKER_06 9:27

This is this is how this is how much we wanted to talk about this movie is that that um yeah, we're we got Max calling in from a landline. And actually, like the other thing too, like the Max, like we we kind of talked about this like off episode before we started recording and before we like really started having problems, but uh in the in true like cursed doll fashion, I feel like this really fits the theme because I I have to say the whole reason for me picking Bride of Chucky uh to do another episode on uh with you is that this is actually like a little bit of a a homework assignment for me, or a scare work, if you will. Um because one of the one of the horror uh streamers that I follow on Twitch, uh Scaroline, uh she's an awesome like horror game streamer, uh she's a voice actress, uh, really, really cool, uh fun streams uh on over on Twitch. And one of the things that she does with her community is if you if you want to, she will assign you what's called scare work, which is like homework for her uh for her channel. And on her Discord uh server, you watch this movie that she assigns you, and then you go write a review on it. Well, uh, me, you know, being a podcast host, I'm like, well, I can do extra credit and you know do a whole podcast episode on on the move on the scare work that I got assigned, which was Bride of Chucky. So that's that's that's really why I dragged you into this whole mess. And the reason I say that it's fitting that we've had so many like difficulties with this is because like one of the big things about her streaming channel, like she the the underworld that she streams from, she is surrounded by cursed dolls uh in her streaming room.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

And so that's that's normal.

SPEAKER_06 11:26

I it's perfectly normal, and I can't think of a more appropriate like series of issues that we've been having when we're talking about a movie about cursed dolls. So uh yeah, shout out to Scaroline over on uh Twitch there. Thank you for assigning this scare work. And uh I'm not directly blaming her for this, but I think this just fits with the theme of her uh streams, and I think it's just so appropriate and so perfect. So that's that's why we're here and doing this. And so thank you for your dedication, Max, and for helping me finish my assignment.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

Well, I I hope you get I hope you get a good grade.

SPEAKER_06 12:05

I hope so too. I fucking better. All right, uh so yeah, time for uh Max's facts.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

Uh yeah, okay, so Bride of Chucky came out in 1998, October 1998. It's rated R. It's an hour and 29 minutes, which we absolutely love. Uh I I don't think it overstayed its welcome. I don't think it understayed its welcome. Uh I I felt like it was just like kind of a perfect I I was I was with Chucky and and the bride just a perfect amount of time.

SPEAKER_06 12:50

Yeah, it just it never felt too long. It uh felt like just the right amount of time to spend.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

Yeah. The uh the rating, the IMDB rating for this film is at a 5.7 out of 10.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

Hey.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

And that's with 70,000, over 70,000 user reviews. Uh so a lot of people have re reviewed this, but it it's just kind of a five, right? An average. Um The IMDB synopsis is Chucky, a doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect make to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

SPEAKER_06 13:32

I think I think that's a perfect, you know, like little synopsis. Doesn't oversell the movie, doesn't undersell the movie. Like tells you exactly what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Yeah, and much like the you know, the play on Bride and Frankenstein, it's I mean, it's it that's pretty much the template uh of this film, uh, which even they they even show some clips. I think at one point Tiffany is in the bath watching Bride and Frankenstein on the TV. So it's it's it's like a very meta movie in a way.

SPEAKER_06 14:02

It is like I mean the movie opens with uh like you know, since we were pat we're past the spoiler warning, and this is the very first scene of the movie, so like if yeah, this isn't spoiling anything, but in the very beginning of the movie, like it opens in a police evidence locker room, and in all these cages are the iconic uh paraphernalia from all the other like major horror franchises. You have Jason's hockey mask, you have Michael Myers mask, uh, you have the uh the fing the knife finger gloves from the nightmare on Elm Street franchise and the chainsaw from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Yeah, it's it's pretty pretty wild that they were able to get all of those get the okay to put all those items in here, which which is w like why it ha they they should just do an Avengers like team up maybe of all these characters.

SPEAKER_06 14:57

Man, could you imagine what that would be like? Like just like the ultimate like fight to the death of these horror villains, like ganging up on these like helpless teenagers.

SPEAKER_03 15:09

And who knows, maybe the director of this film, who is which is Ronnie Yu, might have had that that vision down the road because he not only does this film, but then in 2003 he does Freddie vs. Jason.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

Which is like just a a a 2000s classic for me. I th I really, really love that movie. Yeah. And it makes sense that this movie was at least entertaining enough to get through because it's the same thing director.

SPEAKER_06 15:38

Well, so another another fun little tie-in there then with that. Uh funny we should mention uh Ronnie Yu and Freddie versus Jason because that just so happens to be the Friday Night Frights movie for the month of April.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

No way. That would be awesome to see on the big screen.

SPEAKER_06 15:58

So yeah, uh South Sound Scream Team, uh Washington uh located Scream Team, Friday, April 17th at 10 p.m. at the Blue Mouse Theater here in Tacoma, they're gonna be showing Freddie versus Jason on the big screen. And if you haven't been out to a Friday Night Fright screening before, you really should come out. It's a great way to meet other people in the horror community. Uh, our good friend Anthony DeLuzac, who's been on the podcast before, uh, both talking about a movie, and we've had him on. Uh, he's the one that puts on the Tacoma Halloween parade, which we've been out to twice, like both years now. He does such an amazing job curating these films and bringing such fun movies back to the big screen. And not only that, but he does trivia beforehand where you can win prizes, you can win cool signed posters from the artist that he gets to bring in and do special one-of-a-kind movie posters for these films. And they sell the prints there at the at the theater. Yeah, I have a whole collection which I need to like start buying picture frames for actually to decorate the dungeon. So, yeah, April 17th, 10 p.m., Blue Mouse Theater in Tacoma. Come out and watch Freddie versus Jason.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

That's that's really awesome. And also this the 17th, you could have yourself a nice little double feature because Lee Corrin's the mummy comes out uh in Cineplexes and in theaters of you know across the nation, and you go see that in the the afternoon and the evening, and then you go hit a late show of Freddie vs. Jason, and you got yourself a a great monster double feature, you know, horror icon double featured night gone.

SPEAKER_06 17:36

I can't think of a better way to kick off the weekend. So yeah, you'll you know where you'll find me.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

The cast for this film. We of course uh in the voice the voice of Chucky is Brad Dorf, and he has been the voice of Chucky since the beginning, up until I believe 2019-ish, uh, when they tried to do a r a reboot of this series. Yep. Um iconic voice, iconic personality. Iconic laugh.

SPEAKER_06 18:09

Like I think he has one of the best like evil laughs in in horror movies.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

Absolutely. Um you know, uh some other people it it's interesting, John Ritter, uh R.I.P. John Ritter, he shows up in kind of like a almost a cameo, but just like a smaller supporting role. Um it was nice to see him on screen. Um he was always such a great character actor. You've got Jennifer uh Tilly, who plays Tiffany. I believe she she's in a couple of these movies, uh and and was kind of like a staple uh of this franchise, especially in the 90s. And then in one of her like first big screen roles is Katherine Heigel. Is it Eagle or Heigel? I can't remember. Heigel. Um of Gray's Anatomy. Uh she would blow up on that, and then of course go on to be in films like Knock Up and 27 Dresses. Um but yeah, really, really uh fun to see her you know, dipping her toe into big screen movie making in a in a horror franchise like this.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

The let's see, I got some trivia for ya.

SPEAKER_06 19:33

Alright, yeah, let's let's hear some trivia.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

Uh according to Jennifer Killey, the doll sex scene was all improvised.

SPEAKER_06 19:43

All improvised, okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Uh also, okay, to connect back to the evidence room at the beginning of the movie, uh, there's also with with all the you know, Jason and Michael Myers mask, the Freddy gloves, the leather face chainsaw. Uh there's also the crate from the movie Creep Show in 1982.

SPEAKER_05 20:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

And then originally uh Julia Stiles was supposed to play the part of Jade. Um dropped out of the role uh to go do Ten Things I Hate About You told them to come to Washington. Uh there's your trivia. Derek, you wanna guess how much of the budget is?

SPEAKER_05 20:38

Uh let's see, like late nineties. I mean I'm gonna say 15 million.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

A little higher than that. It was 25 million at 10.

SPEAKER_04 20:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

The uh it flopped its opening weekend. Um Well, actually I don't even know if you call this a flop. It made over 11 million in its opening weekend. In uh US and the US and Canada, it grossed thirty over thirty-two million. And then worldwide it ended up growing over fifty million dollars. Oh wow. So Chucky Chucky's got a reach out there in in the the wide the wide international audience. And those have been Max's facts.

SPEAKER_06 21:32

Alright. Well, uh let's start talking about this movie, man, because there is some there's some like fun stuff in here. Uh what like what were what were some like you and I both said at the top of this that we like the child's play franchise is kind of a blind spot for us, both you and I. Uh not something that we've really like you know, take like taken in very much of. Um This is only the the second uh child's play franchise movie that I've seen. I've seen the very first uh the original child's play movie uh years ago, and then now this one uh and only this one because it was homework assigned to me. So but I remember I always remember seeing the the trailer for this, like back in the 90s and everything, because it has that maybe it's like just the way that it sticks out, like as like one of those true like 90s feeling films, like it almost has that like uh like the Batman and Robin, like Batman Returns kind of feel to it, like the the kind of just the way the movie looks, like the or like maybe it's just like the trailer and everything. Just something about it just has that 90s feel.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Well, yeah, I think I said earlier that like I I re I vividly remember the poster um in 1998. You know, I was eight years old. So I I I didn't get to go see this in theaters, but I I remember the poster, I remember commercials, I remember, you know, again, like this style of Chucky with all the stitches and whatnot is it's kind of the Chucky I think of um when when I think of Chucky. Uh not the not the clean version in in the child child's play films. Yeah. Uh so it was it was definitely a thing and you know, I think it was he was such a he was I I iconic character that star of course started in 1988, but he was still gone strong in the nineties. And uh other than like Ghostface, I think was probably the other iconic character created in the nineties, those guys were all kind of post both of the these characters were post, you know, the big you know, three. So uh and to actually have something thick like that is it's it's pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_04 24:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

And I I think a lot of it has to do with the personality of Chucky and and something I I enjoyed in this film was the banter between Jennifer Tilley and and Brad Store. Yeah. Um I you can you can tell that they you know, they had chemistry, they really trusted each other, they had done films together, you know, in this franchise. Because they just had a really good grasp on these characters and on the voices.

SPEAKER_06 24:35

I might have to like go back and watch the Child's Play franchise because I am very curious how he how he ended up like in the condition that uh Tiffany found him in uh in the beginning of this movie, because he's he arrives in a trash bag and uh his face is all like smashed in, which is actually how he gets like these the stitches and everything like that is uh Tiffany brings him back to her trailer and stitches him back together.

SPEAKER_03 25:05

Yeah, in in true, like, you know, very again like Dr. Frankenstein, you know, or Frankenstein and this doll back together. Um I thought that was that was really well done. And and has has a certain amount of style to it that you you can appreciate uh from from those 90s movies.

SPEAKER_06 25:27

Yeah, so let's talk about some of our favorite scenes. Like what really what really stuck out to you?

SPEAKER_03 25:32

Well, I mean, I uh again, some of the comedy between these two characters, uh specifically I it I you know I impersonated it earlier, but when they're in the Winnebago and the fact that like Chucky like goes kind of back and forth between if he wants to like be married or not. Yeah. And I love that the two human characters that are hostages start playing them against each other, or like, you know, you need to do the dishes, and like, you know, you can do a fucking dish, and then and then they just they just it's like an ultimate like toxic relationship, but it's because it's these dolls, it's ridiculous and and entertaining.

SPEAKER_06 26:17

It does take on like a like a little bit more of a comedic overtone, I guess, like because you're watching two dolls uh like argue with each other and you know be the married couple while they're holding these two uh you know teenage lovers hostage uh on this uh fucking crazy ass road trip that they're on. Because the whole plot is, you know, Tiffany brings back Chucky through a voodoo for dummies book, and he comes back and she discovered the the diamond ring in his apartment uh when he was killed in the first in the first movie. Chucky says to her, like, that was never like I wasn't gonna ask you to marry me. And she gets she gets you know her feelings hurt about it and locks him up in this like little playpen that she had for their child that they were going to have together, that she thought they were going to have together, locks him up in this child playpen, and ends up going to get him, she buys him a like a a little doll uh that dressed up like a bride and says, Here, I got your bride for you, and like leaves the wedding ring attached to a necklace there, which leads into like one of my favorite scenes is when uh she gets uh when Chucky like breaks out of there using the diamond ring to cut through, like to saw the wood, the wood slats on the on the playpen, and pushes a TV into the bathtub uh as she's as Tiffany's in there taking a bath and electrocutes her and then uses that same voodoo for dummies book to bring her back to life in that bride doll's body.

SPEAKER_05 28:00

Yeah, it's it's good stuff. It's it's just it's it's very silly.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

It's very silly, but like you know, just enjoyable. And the other thing too about this, like the kills are are really good. I felt like uh some some pretty original stuff. There were a lot of like you know, not alerts uh in this one. We said in the beginning there was all the memorabilia from all the other like big horror franchises and stuff. They were saying that the Chief Warren kill was uh a little bit of a nod to Pinhead when he gets all the nails uh shot into his face from the airbag.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:45

And uh like when Chucky delivers that line, like, why does this look familiar? Uh it was yeah, because of the the pinhead uh reference there.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

That's hilarious. I did not even think of that when when that part came up, but that's totally uh not alert.

SPEAKER_06 29:05

Yeah, one of the one of the things I love, like the like a lot of the stuff with Tiffany was really great. I think you know, Jennifer Tilley did such a good job playing this character just really well. And even early on, like she plays sort of that lovable psycho almost. Yeah. She talks, you know, early on with her little uh boy toy, uh, who's it, Damien? I think, played by Alexis Arquette. Uh yeah, Damien, uh who shows up and uh shows her a Polaroid of a person that they killed, quote unquote. Uh, but it was really just them in like with a lipstick covering their face to look like look like they were dead.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

Like I was like the Timu version of the crow.

unknown 29:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 29:54

Yeah, like the the fishnets on the feet and everything, too. Like it was hilarious character. Uh the kill on that one too, when she when Tiffany realizes that Chucky is now back to life in the trailer when they're in there and she's like looking around for him and gets Damien to go onto the bed, and then uh Chucky kills him by by putting up smothering them with a pillow and like sitting on the sitting on the pillow while it's over their face. Tough for a doll.

SPEAKER_04 30:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 30:26

Uh dude do you have any other scenes that you I mean uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

Most most of the scenes that really stuck out are are are the kills.

SPEAKER_06 30:35

Yeah. Right? Yeah, I I I think that too. Like I I would say probably like one of the other ones for me, uh maybe like a little bit like contender for I would say heavy contender for like favorite kill uh would be the one at the fucking motel uh with the with the other couple that shows up there.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Yeah, that was crazy too. Very 90s, you know, swinging.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

So yeah, Jesse, Jesse and Jade, who are uh at this point on the run because they are suspected of killing, blowing up a cop car and aren't considered armed and dangerous. They're basically on the run, even though it was like Chucky and Tiffany who are doing all this, doing all the killing uh along this little crazy road trip. They stay at a motel after getting like roadside motel married, uh, at like one of those like drive-up wedding chapel kind of things. And the other funny thing about it too is they're both so apprehensive to get married to the other one because while because they don't know that the dolls are alive yet, they just know that they're supposed to be deliver delivering these dolls to a graveyard, which is where uh the body of Ray, uh, who Chucky was originally the original serial killer who transferred his body into the doll of Chucky, where his body is buried with an amulet that can transfer him back into a human body. Uh so they so Tiffany and Chucky developed this plan to like trick these kids to go deliver them to the graveyard where they will dig up the the body, get the amulet, and transfer themselves into the body of these two, Jesse and Jade. And along the way, Jesse and Jade, who are kind of like the Romeo and Juliet of this story, you know, want to be together, but Chief Warren Kincaid, played by John Ritter, doesn't want Jade to be with Jesse. He's not her dad. Like, he's like an uncle or something who she lives with, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:37

Because it's like they're yeah, it's never it's never really explained, but like her parents died at some point.

SPEAKER_05 32:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:48

So like, yeah, he's not even like I mean, I guess he's is the father figure, but he's the father figure and trying to look out for her in this in this situation, and like doesn't want her to end up with the trailer trash who uh Jesse is like who lives in the trail trailer park next to Tiffany. He's the one who's trying to keep them apart. They run off together, they get married in this like little roadside motel, like wedding chapel, and that night they're staying at this motel, another couple wanders in. Uh, I believe it's uh Diane and Russ are the character names there. They wander in and steal a bunch of stuff from uh Jade and Jesse, and Tiffany and Chucky kind of like are sitting in the in the room, like just looking like dolls, but they see this happen, and Tiffany goes over to their room that night as they are starting to get down and shows up with a bottle of champagne and throws it at the mirror on the ceiling above the bed, which causes it to shatter and crash down on this couple and impale them multiple, like all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

Yeah, it's uh it it's a spectacular death.

SPEAKER_06 34:09

Oh, and uh discovered discovered the next morning by uh another uh neat little cameo here, Kathy Na uh Najimi, who plays the maid there, and she uh famously from Hocus Pocus fame.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

That's right, she's one of the witches. I knew I recognized her, and sister act and voice of Peggy Hill.

SPEAKER_06 34:32

Wow, yeah, yeah, that's why she looks so familiar. Yeah, I saw her too, like in that, and I was like, I know who this is. Like, and I had to go on IMDB and look who was in this movie because I was like, I know.

SPEAKER_07 34:43

Well, I guess I guess that kind of takes us into uh kill, kill, kill.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

Yeah, like Kristen Marlowe's favorite part.

SPEAKER_06 34:59

Yes, Chris Marlowe.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

Do you think she would have enjoyed this?

SPEAKER_06 35:03

I you know, I think she would have a lot of kills. You see a lot of death in this movie. I think she she probably would have been like reluctantly like enjoying it. She she she would have done the classic, like, is this a scary movie? No, it's really not a scary movie, but like there were some good kills. So I think that's what she would say if she was here. I don't know. It's hard, it's hard to say. Like, she has she tends to have a soft spot for those like 90s movies.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

Well, yeah, I wonder if you know she's so old that this might have been like really a uh nostalgic watch for her.

SPEAKER_06 35:48

I would say the only reason like you're saying all this stuff is because you're down in LA, but you said this stuff to her face like when you were up here on the pod too. So you don't have that excuse anymore.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Well, yeah, but don't you agree?

SPEAKER_06 36:01

I mean, uh we're in we're in doll, we're we're possessed dolls right now, so what's she gonna do to us, right? Uh yeah, so uh favorite kills. Let's uh like I I think the kill count was like 10. I didn't keep track, and I I think the kill count was ten.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Well yeah, you got the there I mean there's a lot.

SPEAKER_05 36:26

There's a ton. There's a bunch of kills. A lot of people die. I definitely have a favorite for sure. Okay. Lay it on us. My favorite kill's gotta be John Ritter.

SPEAKER_06 36:38

John Ritter.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

And it and and it's even more of a favorite kill now that I realize that that's a nod to fucking pinhead. I didn't realize that in the moment, but now I like it even more.

SPEAKER_05 36:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

Because we're getting creative with the nails. When it's striking to to look at. You don't it's not just seen once, because he they fucking store him like under the seats in the car uh or in the van. And um and so you get to see it again when he's discovered. Um but yeah, I I just I really, really enjoyed. And you know, I mean, he's kind of like this weird, he's not a bad guy per se, but like he's he's definitely a dumbone. He's definitely a kind of movie again.

SPEAKER_06 37:32

Yeah, like he's definitely a heel in this movie. Right. Because I mean it starts. So your first introduction to him is when one of the characters who's friends with Jade and Jesse, this character, David, shows up to pick up uh Jade for like prom or like a school dance or something. Like she's all dressed up, he's dressed up, and he's playing the very like, you know, likable, clean-cut guy, uh who's trying to impress, you know, uh Chief Kincaid, John Ritter's character. And when they get out to the car, uh Jesse happens to be in the backseat. Uh and so David, David picking her up for the dance was a cover for so that they could all hang out, which they're soon found out because they get followed by one of the other Needle Nose. Yeah, by Needlenose.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Uh as he's as he's been cut he's he's become to be known. Needle nose.

SPEAKER_06 38:31

I think that yeah, I can't remember like I can't remember if they say his actual name in the in the movie.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

Just some cop wacky.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

You know?

SPEAKER_06 38:40

Yeah, he's he's we find out he's paid by uh Chief Kincaid to to follow Jade around and basically harass her and make sure she isn't kissing Jesse in the backseat of a car. Yeah, so his his kill is definitely like one of those ones that you're like you don't hate to see him go.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

Yeah. And you know, for a Chucky movie, that's that's what we're here for. We're here for the kills.

SPEAKER_06 39:10

So I was looking it up because I I knew that it was like the nod to Hellraiser, I just couldn't remember what the exact connection was. And it says that uh when John Ritter's character is killed, his face looks like Pinhead from Hellraiser. Chucky exclaims, why does that look so familiar? And it's uh Andrew Robinson, who played Sergeant Botnik in Child's Play 3, was in the first Hellraiser movie as Larry Cotton. Wow. So that's the that's the Hellraiser Child's Play connection.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

What's your favorite kill?

SPEAKER_06 39:41

Oh man, my favorite kill. Like I said, uh definitely in contention was the uh was the motel couple. But I think the one that I was just like that stuck out to me and it kind of like made me laugh a little bit was David's death. Like Chucky and Tiffany at this point, they haven't revealed themselves just yet. They're in Jesse's van. This is like the morning after they got married uh at the little roadside motel, and they are kind of going back and forth about how they've kind of cleared things up. They were both kind of a little apprehensive, still untrustworthy, still not trusting the other one fully yet. Uh, David had kind of given them a pep talk though. They talked it out and they kind of came to the conclusion that yeah, everything was gonna be fine. And as they're like sort of having this like a little conversation, David notices like he says there's like a funny smell back there or something, and notices some blood leaking out from like under the seat. And when he lifts the the padded seat, he sees you know, Chief Kincaid under there with all the with all the nails in his face and the goofy expression when he died. Uh he freaks out appropriately and uh pulls a gun on Jesse and Jade, and they see a cop he sees a cop like driving by at that time and like flags him down, and the cop like turns around, like pulls a U-turn. They're on like the freeway at this point. So he pulls a U-turn and like gets into the other the other direction, and that's when Chucky and Tiffany and their doll forms are like, okay, we're not getting we're not getting taken down this way. They reveal themselves uh to be alive, and uh David freaks out and gets out of the van and wander like stumbles backwards into traffic where he gets just obliterated by a semi-truck. That's a good one. Obliterated by the semi truck. Jesse and Jade drive off after Tiffany and Chucky tell them to. Uh, and the cop the cop that like pulled around, still following, still following that van, but as they're passing by, like you see the truck driver like get out and like scratching his head at the front of his truck, which is dented in and just covered in blood. I think that had to be my favorite. There, like I could have picked any of these kills. Like I I found myself chuckling at most of these kills. A lot of like creative, goofy stuff, like the Damien kill I laughed at, just like the the watching him struggle and like the cutaways to like his legs and everything in his hands that were like handcuffed to the bed. Uh, the motel couple, like just that one being such a you know, crazy way to like the shattering mirror on the ceiling. There's a lot to choose from. Ten kills. Very creative stuff. All right. Well, after we talk about these films, we gotta give them a rating. And on this podcast, we use the scream scale. For the uninitiated, the scream scale is a scientifically perfected system where we award the films that we watch a number of screams from one to ten. So without further ado, Max, how many screams are you giving Bride of Chucky?

SPEAKER_03 43:10

You know, I had more fun watching this than I thought I would.

SPEAKER_05 43:16

Yeah. Um I don't think, you know, I again Chucky is not my my deal, but but I was entertained.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

I'm gonna give I'm gonna give it five screams.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

Five screams, okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:35

Five on the dot. Like five point zero.

SPEAKER_05 43:38

Wow. Okay. Five screams exactly.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

You need some time to to kill and you want some some creative death fire death.

SPEAKER_06 43:53

Yeah. Uh for me, I uh I'm kind of around the same area as you. Like Like I said, this was a very enjoyable watch for me. Again, only the second child's play franchise movie that I've seen. But I think it's very it kind of hits the same kind of notes that you like from other movies, sort of of this era uh or the franchises of this era. Like you think about like Nightmare on Elm Street, uh you've got, you know, the psychotic, you know, killer who's got all the one-liners and everything like that, that hits this. Uh, you get sort of the look of these other nineties horror movies, kind of like Scream and the ones of those of that of the 90s. Like it has kind of that look to it. And I think they were saying that even like the poster for this movie is sort of a nod to Scream too. Just the way that the poster is uh the poster's done up. I yeah, I just had a good time watching this and it's you know, one-liners throughout, nods to other horror movies and stuff. It's it's cheesy, it's fun, uh it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it still has like a lot of like really cool kills in it. Which, you know, what more do you want from a horror movie? Like what are we really here for? Let's be honest. Uh I am going to give Bride of Chucky six screams.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

Six screams.

SPEAKER_06 45:20

Nice. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

Well, I guess so. You're definitely gonna check out the rest.

SPEAKER_06 45:26

I think so. I think I think this this one will be my springboard into the child's play franchise. Like this is this is the one that gets me to go back and look, take a look at you know the other ones. I don't know if Child's Play 2 or 3 is gonna have the same kind of charm uh that this one has. Maybe Seed of Chucky is probably going to be a little bit more in this vein of like what Bride of Chucky was as far as like the look and like even the very end scene when when the Tiffany doll gives birth to the little demon baby. Uh if that's a if that's you know the lead-in to Seed of Chucky, like yeah, I'm I'm I'll definitely check it out. And yeah, then who know who knows what the what the new ones look like. I tried this, you know, this might be more something that I that I look into a little more.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

Good job on Ronnie U, man. He he hook he hooked ya.

SPEAKER_06 46:25

Yeah. Yeah, he did he did enough to did enough to get me get me to check out the other stuff. And I'm ex I'm excited to see his his you know other installment. Uh one of the other few films that he got to do, uh Freddie vs. Jason. Another one that I'm sure will be full of like great one-liners uh from the psychotic killers. Well maybe one really, because Jason doesn't really ever say anything. So But at least at least one of the killers will will have a lot of great one-liners for that movie. So can't wait to see that. Again, uh Friday Night Frights at the Blue Mouse Theater in Tacoma, 10 p.m. April 17th.

SPEAKER_03 47:08

17th. Yeah, Friday the 17th.

SPEAKER_06 47:11

Alright, well, that's gonna about wrap it up here for us. I wanna thank uh I guess first of all thanks Scaroline for assigning me this uh scare work and uh giving me the opportunity uh to watch this movie and to drag one of my friends along for that ride.

SPEAKER_03 47:29

You know, if she is if she's a surrounded by dolls, she must be a huge fan, right, of of Chucky, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_06 47:37

I I'd love to hear her review and her ranking of all the I I mean when I when I post this episode, uh I will be sure to you know tag her. Uh I'm gonna go post this in the in the Discord where the the the assignments are supposed to be posted. I will I will post a link there uh for the other classmates to hear uh as well. And yeah, I I will be asking her, you know, her thoughts on this film, the franchise, and everything. I'll report back.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Caroline, if you if you're listening, you need to get on the Silver Screams podcast.

SPEAKER_06 48:17

Yeah. Uh like like Max said, Scaroline, join us. Join us for uh for an episode. We'd love to have you on. It's the crossover everybody's talking about, so it's the it's the Freddie versus Jason of podcast and Twitch streaming, so I I think I think that's a great sell. I I don't know how how you say no to something like that. Alright, yeah, again, thank you, Scaroline, for assigning this uh scare work to me. Max, thank you for joining me on this. I'm sorry that we are in doll form. I guess like we have to go track down this amulet now. Um maybe I it's a good thing we watched this, so now we know what to do. We can trick a couple of love-drunk teenagers to drive us to wherever this amulet is, and so we can use our Voodoo Dummies book to get ourselves back into our regular bodies. Uh, hopefully before the next podcast. It's kinda hard to operate these bones with like little plastic pants, so.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

Yeah, it'd be nice to get this wedding dressed off.

SPEAKER_06 49:20

Yeah. I think you look great. You know, just saying. Like I'm picturing you in my head, and I think I think it looks great on you. Alright, well that's gonna do it for us here on the Silver Screens podcast. Uh, thank you all so much for listening, and uh thank you, Max, for joining me. Once again, I'm Derek, and I'm Matt. And we'll catch you next time. Stay spooky, screen team.