Curse of Chucky (2013)
An excellent reboot of the Child's Play series which sees a Chucky doll sent to the family home of wheelchair bound Nica (Fiona Dourif) as her bickering family gather the night before Nica's mother's funeral.
Second time of watching this and i loved it once again. It's basically Chucky set in a classic old dark house so we have a creepy setting and a maniacal doll gorily murdering the guests.
Adding to the Gothic horror atmosphere we have some lovely homages to Argento's Suspiria with music cues as Nica uses a lift in the house and also Mario Bava's Kill Baby Kill (1966) but instead of a ball bouncing down the flight of stairs it's an eyeball.
The script by writer / director Don Mancini is tight and characters are well rounded and come out with some choice put downs for one another round the dinner table, it's perfectly paced with some superior shocks and reasonable levels of tension. All round a great sequel which i'd argue is actually the best film in the series.
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