It doesn’t discount what happened before, it just expands on it.Īlso, the tone is very consistent between Bride and Seed, both movies had a very meta approach to their dialogue and both were a lot more comedic than previous incarnations.
#The seed of chucky movie
It even has Chucky and Tiffany’s life story being made into a movie which is a natural follow up to their murder filled road trip back in the 90s. It brings back the mystical necklace that was a major plot point in Bride so that Glen has the ability to revive his parent’s. We spend the best part of the opening exploring this new character who we saw for a few seconds at the end of Bride, and then he becomes the one to bring Chucky and Tiffany back. It’s a genuinely effective scene and could’ve just been written off as a pointless jump scare but Seed takes the ball and runs with it by showing what happened to that child within the first few minutes. Bride ends with a burnt Tiffany giving birth to the demonic spawn that would end up becoming Glen. Seed uses the ending of Bride of Chucky as it’s entire foundation (Chucky’s child being the focus of Seed’s plotline). Watch all of those movies in order sometime and tell me that they didn’t pretend key elements of previous films weren’t there (I’m looking at you Halloween 5 and your pretending the last five minutes of Halloween 4 didn’t matter).
#The seed of chucky series
Series like Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th and even Halloween all have this habit of starting the new movie while forgetting major elements of the previous one. One thing that I respect about the Child’s Play movies is that they don’t ignore previous movies in their franchise, they retain everything as canon no matter what. If Seed had come out a year before while we were still in the meta-horror period then it might’ve done better at the box office but it absolutely wasn’t what ruined the franchise, it was just moving with what was popular at the time and didn’t see the surprise that was Saw. We wanted pure raw terror… you weren’t getting that with Seed. We wanted something shocking, something intense. No longer did we want movies that knew all the tropes of horror movies, we weren’t looking for high concept slasher films that didn’t take themselves seriously. If Scream revived the horror genre, Saw changed it. Not only did it get made during the early 2000’s when we were saturated with horror movies, it appeared in cinemas two weeks after Saw. Seed honestly was just was really unlucky in its timing. It can never be said enough, this film saved the horror genre Bride just happened to appear during the horror resurgence of the late 90s. Seed isn’t where the franchise went downhill, that started with the third movie. If you adjust for inflation it’s the second lowest, only barely beating Seed (It has about a decade or two worth of added inflation, obviously it’s going to be bigger).
Child’s Play 3 is, officially, the lowest earning film in the franchise before adjusting for inflation.
The gap between Child’s Play 3 and Bride was seven years because no one wanted the series anymore. That’s just how the cycle works with these movies now. six years between Bride and Seed, then nine years between Seed and Curse. Somehow they seem to forget that the movie before Seed was Bride Of Chucky which was a huge hit, second highest grossing in the franchise, but was in 1998. For starters, let’s dispel a rumourĪ lot of people act as though Seed is why we didn’t get a movie between 20. I disagree with that idea and I want to try and explain why it’s a valid sequel that we shouldn’t just discount. Yet every time I see an article online about the series there is, inevitably, a reference to Seed and how it almost ruined the franchise. I think it’s one of the funniest sequels that a horror franchise has ever come up with and one of the best self-referential films in recent years.
Personally, I have nothing but good memories regarding this movie.
However, there is one movie in the franchise that always gets pointed to as the lowest point in the series, that being the fifth movie of the franchise Seed Of Chucky. The series recently got a revival with the surprisingly amazing Curse Of Chucky that came out in 2013 and the upcoming Cult Of Chucky is looking to be similarly dark in it’s tone. I can still remember my first time seeing it and being terrified by this little killer doll that was relentless as hell.
#The seed of chucky Patch
It starred a Cabbage Patch doll wannabe running about and murdering people and it was goddamn amazing. In 1988 a little horror movie called Child’s Play was unleashed upon the world.
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