Sep 27 2008
CHILD’S PLAY 20TH BIRTHDAY DVD
It’s pretty hard to believe that Child’s Play has been around for 20 years now, but apparently it has. A few weeks ago I was browsing the selection at my local Target and saw the new DVD starring at me from the shelf for $9.99. Now I already own the box set of the last 3-4 movies, plus the first and last movie on DVD, but I couldn’t pass up this set.The 20th Birthday DVD for Child’s Play includes a number of interviews and behind the scenes footage of the movie. Plus they managed to drag back the old stars and special effects people to talk about what it was like filming the movie. The real highlight is the scene specific commentary from Chucky himself.Yes, Brad Douriff puts on the Chucky voice and sits down for roughly 20 minutes of scenes to talk about things from his perspective. Some of the best quotes?
His taste in music sucks.
Anybody got a cigarette? What, I can’t smoke in here? Are you fucking kidding me?
I like horror movies. Big fucking shock, I know.
Everyone has something they’re good at…I was good at strangling.
Really those scenes make it worth the $10. You also get some behind the scenes info like how Catherine Hicks met her husband on the set of the movie. She was playing the mom (you should know that) and he was the lead puppeteer. It’s kind of cute to see the two of them reminiscing about how they met. Plus they have a short Q&A with Hicks and Chris Sarandon discussing the movie at a convention in the 2000s. Not to mention the kid who played Andy pops up as a fully grownup and good looking individual.
Then there’s trailers, photo galleries and a ton of random crap tossed onto one little disc. If you’ve been hesitating at picking this one up, go for it.
Also you can get a free download of a commentary done by director Tom Holland here:
http://www.iconsoffright.com/news/2008/09/icons_exclusive_tom_holland_di.html
I always have fond memories of watching childs play and my gran would walk in and say oh is this a kids film and I’d laugh and say why yes it is!
Maybe because in the first film chucky looked like a kids doll to start off, not now though he has nice scars and all that, I’ve heard they are going to do a remake, although not a straight remake of the first Childs play film, but Brads voice will return as no one else could really pull it off.
Remakes eh? they are all over the place and nightmare on elm street too, what else?