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Child"s Play (1988)
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While being chased by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), *** killer and voodoo practitioner (and presumably a mafia hitman, due to the way he"s dressed) Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray ("The Lakeshore Strangler") (Brad Dourif), is shot and mortally wounded. Before dying, Ray takes cover inside a toy store, finding boxes of "Good Guy dolls" (fictional dolls), and uses a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into one of them. The store is then struck by lightning, and it burns to the ground. Chucky is found by a homeless man, and sold to Karen Barclay, who gives him to her son Andy as a birthday gift.

While Karen is working late, Andy"s Aunt Maggie agrees to baby-sit. When she has Andy go to bed, which keeps Chucky from watching a news story about Edward "Eddie" Caputo (his former accomplice who had left him stranded on foot the night he was killed), he causes her to fall out a window to her death (by hitting her in the head with a childs hammer).

The next day, apparently upon Chucky"s request, Andy visits the house of Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntoli). As Andy urinates outside, Chucky is revealed as being alive. He sneaks into Eddie"s house and blows out the pilot light on the stove and turns up the gas; Eddie, in panicked self-defense, fires his gun and the house explodes, killing him.

Andy is questioned by police about his presence at the explosion; he blames the doll, and is placed in a psychiatric ward for a few days. Karen believes that Chucky is the culprit after finding that there were no batteries in his back. Karen tells Chucky to talk to her, or else she is going to throw him in the fire. Chucky then comes alive in her hands, bites her, and runs out of the apartment.

Karen contacts Mike, who is now investigating Aunt Maggie"s death. Although he initially doubts her story, he becomes a firm believer after he is attacked by Chucky in his car, and survives only by shooting Chucky with his gun.

Chucky later meets with John (a.k.a. "Dr. Death"), his voodoo instructor from years past, and asks why his gunshot wound bled. John, under torture through a voodoo doll, informs him that his body is slowly conforming to that of a human"s, and that he will soon be trapped in the body if he doesn"t transfer his soul into the body of the first person that he revealed himself to (which is Andy). Chucky murders John and leaves to find Andy. Mike and Karen find John before he dies, learning that Andy is in danger and that the only way to stop Chucky is to destroy his heart.

Andy escapes from the psychiatric unit as Chucky brutally kills the head doctor. Mike and Karen rush back to the apartment hoping that Andy is there. Chucky reaches the apartment and knocks Andy unconscious with a baseball bat to possess him. After a prolonged struggle, Chucky is thrown into the fireplace where Andy drops a match, setting Chucky on fire. Thinking that Chucky is dead, Andy and Karen go to help the injured Mike. The heavily burned Chucky attacks again, finally stopping Chucky when Mike shoots him through the heart as John instructed.

[edit] Child"s Play 2 (1990)
Main article: Child"s Play 2
Two years later, Andy is in a children"s crisis center and Karen (unseen) is under psychiatric observation, for supporting Andy"s story. Bad publicity about Play Pals Inc. (the company of the Good Guy Doll franchise) is all over the newspapers regarding Chucky. The company has the original doll reconstructed for analysis, and a worker is electrocuted at the completion of that process (due to it still holding Charles" A.K.A Chucky"s soul).

A Yuppie-style couple with no children of their own who have often fostered children, Joanne and Phil Simpson (Jenny Agutter and Gerrit Graham), agree to foster Andy until his mother is able to look after him again. Andy meets an older girl, Kyle (Christine Elise), who is also living with George and Mildred.

Mattson, a Play Pals executive