New Chucky Reveal Clip … Doesn’t Reveal Chucky
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We’re officially three weeks away from the theatrical release of Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play remake and we still haven’t seen a decent clip of the film’s feared antagonist.
Orion debuted the latest “first look” clip from the contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror cult-classic earlier this afternoon, the first of three trailers to feature Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky.
Well—Hamill sounds great. And suitably spooky. But where the hell is Chucky?
Despite releasing three trailers in anticipation for the forthcoming film, Orion Pictures still hasn’t debuted a clip of the character in action and full motion. The trailers only show obscured images of the reimagined character: shots of the doll hiding in shadows and standing motionless in corners, his arms or his legs in motion or the back of his head.
The film’s producers made a stylistic choice early on to forgo relying entirely on CGI effects, which meant that six animatronic dolls (with a slight CGI crutch) were used to bring the Chucky character to life. Your childhood nightmare is just an assembly of plaster, foam latex and a plastic exoskeleton. Feel better?