TedStixon

10th Aug 2024

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Chucky's body in this film is the longest one he's inhabited. His body from this film gets stitched back together and is the same body he uses in "Bride of Chucky." "Seed of Chucky" mentions that it's the same body from "Bride." "Curse of Chucky" reveals that he's still using the same body, albeit with "prosthetics" covering his scars. And the doll's head is also seen still alive in "Cult of Chucky." The TV show implies it has finally been destroyed... 30 years after "Child's Play 3" came out.

TedStixon

18th Jul 2024

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Chucky's famous/infamous line "Don't fuck with the Chuck!", was actually written by famed comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. Director Jack Bender is friends with Vilanch and asked him for some ideas for potential Chucky one-liners during pre-production.

TedStixon

18th Mar 2023

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Originally, the war-games scene was meant to be a total bloodbath, with numerous students being shot to ribbons. But it was eventually cut down to just Shelton being killed. Series creator Don Mancini has said he believes it was changed for two reasons - first due to budgetary concerns since it'd require so many squibs and so much coordination, and second for "political correctness" reasons, since seeing dozens of kids being shot would be a little too distasteful, even for a Chucky movie.

TedStixon

26th Aug 2022

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: The CEO is played by Peter Haskell. Before writing "Child's Play," creator Don Mancini had briefly worked on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" as an assistant, which Haskell co-starred in. Mancini said Haskell was one of the only cast members who was nice to him, so he recommended him for the CEO in "Child's Play 2." When he was writing "Child's Play 3," he again included the character, and gave him a memorable death as a twisted "thank you" to Haskell for being nice to him years prior.

TedStixon

26th Aug 2022

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: When Andy and De Silva arrive at the fair, there's a brief moment where a father, mother and three girls are on-camera. (The father just won one of his girls a stuffed toy.) This is a cameo by series producer David Kirschner and his family. He players the father, his wife plays the mother, and the three daughters are their actual real-life daughters. Kirschner has said he hates doing cameos, but director Jack Bender talked him into it by including his whole family.

TedStixon

10th Jun 2022

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Perrey Reeves co-stars as Andy's love-interest De Silva. Coincidentally, one year before this film was released, she was a guest-star on the 90's television show "The Flash," based on the popular DC Comics character. And what was the title of her episode? It was "Child's Play." Just an amusing coincidence. (Albeit the "Flash" episode nothing to do with a killer doll).

TedStixon

20th Sep 2021

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Writer Don Mancini has been critical of the casting of Jeremy Sylvers (who plays Tyler) and Dakin Matthews (who plays Cochrane). He felt Sylvers was a year or so too old for his part, and that his infatuation with the Good Guy dolls and trust of Chucky wasn't realistic at his age. He also felt that Matthews was too old for his part, which he had originally envisioned as being played by an "R. Lee Ermy type," making it funny that he'd take one look at a doll and have a heart-attack.

TedStixon

12th Aug 2021

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: As is often the case, when the film was broadcast on cable, several deleted scenes were added back in to make the film fit a two-hour broadcast window. Perhaps most notably, the broadcast television version had an entirely different introduction to Andy and Tyler, who arrive at the military school via bus and talk during the ride in.

TedStixon

12th Aug 2021

Child's Play 3 (1991)

12th Aug 2021

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: John Ritter originally was supposed to have a cameo as a security guard at the doll factory, but his part was written out of the film. He would have caught a group of kids sneaking into the abandoned factory because they heard the "urban legend" of Chucky the killer doll.

TedStixon

12th Aug 2021

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: The film was notorious at the time of its video release as it was said to be one of the inspirations for the death of 2-year-old James Bulger, who was murdered by two 10-year-old boys. Supposedly, one of his killers had seen the film, and it was suggested that it partially inspired him. While investigators subsequently tossed out this theory and said there was no link between the film and the murder, several European television networks refused to air the film due to the controversy.

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