<P> Child's Play (also called Chucky) is an American horror film franchise created by Don Mancini that consists of seven slasher films, starring Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif . The first installment, Child's Play, was released on November 9, 1988 . The film has spawned six sequels and has gone into other media, such as comic books . The films are all centered on Charles Lee Ray (played by Dourif) aka Chucky, a notorious serial killer known as the "Lakeshore Strangler" whose soul is trapped inside a Good Guy doll following a voodoo ritual to avoid the afterlife and possibly going to hell . The first, second, and fourth films were box office successes with all of the films earning over $182 million worldwide . Including revenues from sales of videos, DVDs, VOD and merchandise, the franchise has generated over $250 million . </P> <P> The series originally started out as straight horror with the first installment Child's Play, which appears to have more psychological horror elements while its successors are straightforward slasher films with elements of dark humour . As the films progressed, they became satirical and campy, until the series briefly became a gothic horror comedy, beginning with 1998's Bride of Chucky and 2004's Seed of Chucky . On June 23, 2012, it was confirmed that a new film of the franchise would be made under the title Curse of Chucky and be released direct - to - video . Unlike Bride and Seed, Curse of Chucky is a full - fledged horror film much like the original three installments . However, it does maintain the campy humour to a small degree . Since 1998's Bride of Chucky, titles have no longer been released under the Child's Play brand name and now use the Chucky brand name and will continue to do so with future installments . Chucky has also appeared in TV commercials . It also won a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Franchise . Several short films have been made featuring Chucky: on the DVD release of Seed of Chucky, a short film entitled Chucky's Vacation Slides, set during the events of the film, was included, and a series of short films inserting Chucky into the events of four other films entitled Chucky Invades was released in the run - up to the release of Curse of Chucky; the films included in the series are The Purge, Mama, Drag Me to Hell and Psycho . Chucky has also appeared on Saturday Night Live, with a separate voice actor voicing the character . </P> <P> A seventh installment, titled Cult of Chucky was released on October 3, 2017 . </P> <P> Child's Play is the first and only in the series to be distributed by United Artists and Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer (until Seed of Chucky which is distributed by Rogue) before the franchise was being sold by Universal Pictures . The film is directed by Tom Holland, written by Holland, John Lafia, and Don Mancini, and starring Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif . The film was released on November 9, 1988 . In the film, a serial killer and voodoo practitioner named Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray is mortally wounded and transfers his soul via a voodoo ritual into a child - sized "Good Guy" doll . The doll is found by a homeless peddler and sold to Karen Barclay, who gives it to her son Andy as a birthday gift . As time goes on Chucky has to get his soul out of the doll before it turns human and the transfer becomes permanent, and thus has to possess the first person he told his secret to - Andy . Desperate to leave his doll body, Chucky terrorizes the Barclays in order to restore his soul . </P>

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