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Child's Play (2019)

Child's Play poster
Directed by
Lars Klevberg
Genre
slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h
Rated
R
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2,068 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A single mother gives her young son a high-tech doll that connects to the internet. The doll starts acting strangely and then becomes murderous, terrorizing the family and their neighbors.

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What happens

Child's Play is a 2019 horror film directed by Lars Klevberg from a screenplay written by Tyler Burton Smith. It serves as a remake of the 1988 eponymous film and is the eighth installment in the Child's Play franchise. The film stars Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky. It follows a family terrorized by a high-tech doll that malfunctions and becomes subsequently hostile and murderous. Plans for a Child's Play remake began in the early 2010s, with original Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif set to reprise the role. However, it was turned down and the project entered development hell. By 2018, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced a remake with a different creative team than the original film series. Klevberg signed on as director from a script by Burton Smith, saying in an interview he drew inspiration from the 1982 science fiction film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Principal photography for the film began in September 2018 and wrapped in November in Vancouver, British Columbia. Child's Play premiered in Paris on June 18, 2019, before being theatrically released in the United States and Canada three days later by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing and Elevation Pictures respectively. The film grossed $44.9 million worldwide against a $10 million budget and received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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