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Post by Gee on Apr 22, 2014 11:13:20 GMT -6
As I do the dishes and hum the Child's Play theme song, it kind of had me feeling nostalgic in the sense of Chucky. I remember my first encounter with a Chucky film like it was yesterday.
I remember I was 8 years old and oddly addicted to the Horror genre. I was at a video store with my mother and we were waiting in line when "The Bride of Chucky" caught my eye, I begged her to let me rent it but due to glares from other parents she said no. A couple months later, we had this TV preview for a station called "Scream" which was dedicated to horror/suspense, to my absolute luck "Bride of Chucky" was playing that night and I literally remember jumping for joy as my mother shook her head and went to bed. I was in love with that movie, and I was even happier that they were playing a reverse marathon. I stayed up until 5am watching all the other sequels. From that moment on, I've been in love.
So, how did it start for you guys? Were you just kids getting up to no good watching scary movies, or older and curious?
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Post by dazedduck on Apr 22, 2014 11:19:50 GMT -6
The first time I ever saw a Chucky film was either CP2 OR CP3 when they aired on USA network. Those two used to be on USA network all the time throughout the 90's. At first Chucky scared the crap out of me. But when Bride came,I wasn't as scared and now I am a huge Chucky fan and I love all 6 films,yes even Seed despite it's flaws. Chucky will always be our friend to the end! Hidey-ho! Ha-ha-ha!
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Post by Spanky on Apr 22, 2014 11:23:58 GMT -6
CP2 when I was like 6 or 7. My grandma always talked about these movies, never seen them. Then she's over while my folks are out, Chucky marathon comes on TV. She calls me in so we can watch it, and we missed the first one. We watch CP2, then CP3, then she made one of my brothers go out and rent the first one and we watched that right after.
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Post by Gee on Apr 22, 2014 11:38:13 GMT -6
That's a pretty cool memory with your grandma, bud. I remember the time I've seen the Chucky movies was pretty close to around the time Seed was in production, which made me shit my pants with excitement. My father let me rent it once it came out, and I remember my stepmom yelling at me because I watched the DVD over and over again in our shitty player, and it ended up scratching the disc and my parents had to pay for it lol.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 12:41:06 GMT -6
My parents didn't seem to care if I watched R Rated films or Horrror films and thank God because I had a awesome childhood because of it. I remember my one friends wasn't allowed to watch Terminator 2 because his parents said it was Rated R... must have sucked to be him. lol.
Anyway, by the time Chucky was around I had already seen every other slasher in action. so let me take you on a little journey...
It was a beautiful Sunday morning in the Summer of 1989. My father had gone up on the roof of our apartment building to do a cabel hook up and tape the HBO Saturday premier films. So after I my mom poured me a bowl of cereal she said "Your father taped "Child's Play" for you last night. Would you like to watch it?" I asked "What's Child's Play?" My mom then said "If you like Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers... you'll love this movie" I know... sounds like a Malt-O-Meal ad. You figure most 7 year olds at that time would want to watch cartoons, but not me... I watched horror movie on the weekends.
Anyway, the tape went into the VCR and it was down hill ever since. I think my father regretted taping that for me as my parents would have to endure me watching this films and it's sequels over, and over again. I watched it 3 times that day.
For some reason I didn't get to see CP2 in theaters, but my parents took me to see CP3. Instead of getting grounded for doing an antic that cost my father some money... he barred me from seeing Bride in theaters. I would have much preferred a 2 month grounding. I saw Seed twice as a matter of principle because of that.
So I got to see it from the begining and trust me... it sucked having the wait for another sequel everytime.
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Post by Gee on Apr 22, 2014 12:55:45 GMT -6
what a beautifully described memory. It would have sucked to wait that long every time, but it's cool to say you've been there since the series began
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Post by Spanky on Apr 22, 2014 14:59:34 GMT -6
Yeah my grandma was pretty cool with scary movies. She always told me about them and whatnot, and then we finally got to watch Chucky together, it was pretty awesome. Of course I was so scared I didn't sleep that night, but it was still awesome. It also doesn't help when you're the same age as Andy when you see the movie for the first time because it immediately made me feel "this could happen to me".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 15:18:10 GMT -6
what a beautifully described memory. It would have sucked to wait that long every time, but it's cool to say you've been there since the series began Thank you. Yeah I was one of the 7 Primes at PoC... now that PoC is gone I am all that's left. You know... us old timer fans. I am not old in the physical sense but in this fandom I may as really be a 900 year old Time Lord. Still... I wouldn't have it any other way. Don't get me wrong I envy the younger folks in the sense that back tracking can be fun. I almost can't imagine starting with Seed then seeing CP1... it would feel almost like a trip through another dimension. lol. But seeing from the begining was quite the experience. Now I once again wait... for Chucky 7. |
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Post by smngry on Apr 23, 2014 5:30:31 GMT -6
what a beautifully described memory. It would have sucked to wait that long every time, but it's cool to say you've been there since the series began Thank you. Yeah I was one of the 7 Primes at PoC... now that PoC is gone I am all that's left. You know... us old timer fans. I am not old in the physical sense but in this fandom I may as really be a 900 year old Time Lord. Still... I wouldn't have it any other way. Don't get me wrong I envy the younger folks in the sense that back tracking can be fun. I almost can't imagine starting with Seed then seeing CP1... it would feel almost like a trip through another dimension. lol. But seeing from the begining was quite the experience. Now I once again wait... for Chucky 7. I have a similar story. Not too similar though... It was 1989, and I was 8 years old. I'd always been fascinated by the mythos surrounding these horror films that one of my older friends always talked about. But truth be told, I was always apprehensive. He talked about Freddy, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees and the (at the time banned) Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I wanted to know more. My parents were a little reluctant to let me watch though as they were rated 18, and like I say i was only 8 years old. However, my sister (a full 6 years older than me) had recently been babysitting for a friend of the family and she told me days later that she'd watched a film whilst round there, once the kids were in bed, and it was called Child's Play. She told me it was a horror film, about a doll called Chucky, but with it only being rated 15 there was a good chance she could talk our parents into letting me watch it if she recorded it. The day after, my parents agreed to let me watch it and I was pretty happy at that point. We all watched it together in fact, and I didn't feel scared at all. Not until the very end... The way Andy looked round at his lifeless body, then the freeze frame on Andy looking through the door struck something in me, and it all sunk in. That night, as it started to get dark, I walked upstairs to bed and started to feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I stood in the doorway of my room and my eyes were drawn to this doll. It was a knitted doll of Postman Pat (dunno if you in USA have heard of him, he was a popular kids character on British tv). Knitted by my aunty, and packed with stuffing to give him a rigid stance. As he stood there, propped up against my bedroom wall, arms out to the side, staring me out, he suddenly slid down the wall and into his back. That freaked me out. The amount of times I was up and down those stairs, crying my eyes out telling my parents Chucky was coming for me, was unbelievable. Every time I got in bed and shut my eyes I just saw the shadown on the floor as he walked, knife in hand, hunting for Andy. I had just about gotten over this mentally scarring moment, when I was sat innocently watching something on Sky Movies (there was only one Sky Movies back then. None of this Premier, Drama, Box Office, Sky Movies 1 through to 9 or whatever.) All of a sudden an advert came on for a film. Nothing flash, just a jack in a box with the handle going round and 'pop goes the weasel' chiming. Something struck me about it's look. Then chucky stamped on it and the nightmares started again. Since then I've watched every one and learned to embrace the horror genre. And couldn't be happier about doing so  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 8:54:06 GMT -6
Okay... so you're another Prime. Nice.
I must be messed up, because I was never afraid of Chucky, or any other slasher but again... my parents started me very young. They told me what was on TV was make believe and I guess I always had that in the back of my head. Looking back... I think my parents were a little whacked for letting me watch some films because now that I am older and understand better, I wouldn't let my kids watch some of the films I have at their age.
Then again, maybe that is why the younger people are weaker... they were too guarded from things not worth guarding, and exposed to things that they shouldn't have been exposed to. Of course this is a discussion for another thread.
Point is that I was never afraid of Chucky, but I can see where he can inspire fear out of people. Regardless of age because he does strike cords on the most basic and primal of levels. Even the more comedic films people find scary.
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Post by smngry on Apr 23, 2014 12:35:07 GMT -6
I never found Bride and Seed scary, or menacing. I did find Bride a little dark and gothic.
He does provoke a fear in people though. Even now, in the middle of a power cut, if I'm on my own, he flashes across my brain. Lol
My dad used to tell me it was all puppets and motors, and people controlling him. I eventually watched number 2, then afterwards there was a featurette of how they set up the factory scene, especially the bit where Andy slides down the rollers and Chucky pops up with his knife. That took the sting out of it a bit. Lol
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Post by Spanky on Apr 23, 2014 12:46:50 GMT -6
That's what my grandma would tell me to, that it's all fake, not real, that he's just a puppet with wires and whatnot underneath. But even today if I am in bed at night and I hear a bump somewhere (most likely due to one of the other surrounding apartment units), I get the heebie jeebies.
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Post by smngry on Apr 23, 2014 13:21:00 GMT -6
Ha ha... Same here. The bedroom me and my girlfriend sleep in has a flat roof, and if a bird lands on it at night, we hear it running across the roof. My girlfriend shrugs it off, but deep down I know...
He's comin' for her. Heh heh heh
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Post by Spanky on Apr 23, 2014 13:32:07 GMT -6
Yeah it gets freaky since I live alone. But I do have a wolf blanket, so I am protected from all.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 15:59:35 GMT -6
I sleep alone... nude... with no blanket what so ever. No boogie man will bother me.
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