8. Child's Play (2019)

The Kaslan Corporation Has Just Unveiled Their Brand New Buddi Doll — Something of a Cross Between Alexa and Uber, Designed to Be Your Artificially Intelligent Friend Till the End. After a Disgruntled Factory Worker Removes the Safety Settings on One of the Buddis, the Sinister Toy (Voiced by Mark Hamill) Makes Its Way into the Apartment of Karen Barclay (Aubrey Plaza) and Her Son Andy (Gabriel Bateman). Universal Churned out This Cynical Remake Without the Participation or Consent of Don Mancini, Who Was in the Middle of Developing His Chucky Tv Series When This Film Was Rushed Through Production. an Unfortunate Series of Deals in the Late-'80S and Early-'90S Left Mancini and Producer David Kirschner with the Rights to Sequelize His Original Film, While Studio Ua Retained Rights to Remake Child's Play. "[The Studio] Came to Us and Asked Us to Have This Nominal Involvement in What They Were Doing After We Had Just Made Two Movies [Curse and Cult of Chucky] That Had Done Extremely Well," Mancini Told Ew in 2019. "So, It's Hard Not to Feel a Little Insulted by That. .. It Might Be Different If We Were Finished, but We're Hardly Finished. We Would Prefer Not to Have Our Brand Muddied."

7. Child's Play 3 (1991)

Eight Year's After the Events of Child's Play 2, Chucky Follows Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin) to the Military Academy That the Troubled Youth Has Been Shuffled off To, Guaranteeing Yet More Pint-Sized Carnage for This Third Installment. Child's Play 3 Was Rushed out Just Nine Months After the Release of the Second Film, Which Premiered in April 1991. Don Mancini Has Admitted to This Being His Least Favorite Film in the Franchise, Finding That Having to Turn out a Fresh Story So Soon After Child's Play 2 Left Him Largely out of Ideas. the Obvious Approach (Perhaps Too Obvious for Mancini During the Writing Process) Would Be to Follow Andy and Kyle (Christine Elise) on a New Adventure After Defeating Chucky at the End of the Last Film.

6. Cult of Chucky (2017)

Confined in a Mental Institution After Chucky's Mansion Rampage in the Previous Film, for Which She Took the Blame, Nica (Fiona Dourif, Daughter of Brad) Has Come to Believe That She Did in Fact Slay Her Relatives. Just in Time to Put Her Fears at Ease, Chucky Infiltrates the Hospital and Proceeds to Pick off Nica's Doctors and Fellow Patients One by One. Don Mancini's Third Spin Behind the Camera Is a Somewhat Fractured Production That Seems to Have Difficulty Deciding What It Is, and Where to Go, After the Previous Installment. Mancini Told Fellow Horror Directors Adam Green and Joe Lynch on Their Movie Crypt Podcast, via Ew, "Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Was an Influence [On Cult of Chucky] but So Was Inception, Honestly. These Are Movies Where, Deliberately — and We Had Not Done This Before with a Chucky Movie — You Question Reality." Unfortunately, None of Those Influences (Besides the Nightmare 3-Inspired Setting) Come Through with Any Great Clarity.

5. Curse of Chucky (2013)

Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) Has Been a Wheelchair User Since Her Youth, the Result of an Unspecified Injury While She Was Still in Her Mother's Womb. When Nica's Extended Family Come to Stay at Her Isolated Mansion in the Wake of a Family Tragedy, a Mysterious Doll Turns up in an Unmarked Box and Begins Rampaging Around the Country Home with a Massive Butcher's Knife, Felling Any Member of Nica's Brood That Gets in Their Way.

4. Seed of Chucky (2004)

In This Fifth Installment, Chucky and Tiffany's (Jennifer Tilly) Progeny, Glen (Lord of the Rings' Billy Boyd), Escapes Their Life as a Ventriloquist's Dummy in Glasgow and Travels to Hollywood, Where a Film Starring the Deeply Neurotic Jennifer Tilly (Playing Herself) Is Being Made About Chucky and Tiffany's Most Recent Rampage. Confused About Both Their Gender and Their Purpose in Life, Glen Resurrects Their Parents with the Hope of Discovering More About Themselves. Rather Than Spending Time with Their Long-Lost Child, Chucky and Tiffany Instead Busy Themselves with Transferring Their Souls into the Human Vessels of the Rapper Redman (Also Playing Himself) and Tilly, So That They May Leave Behind Their Doll Forms for Good.

3. Child's Play 2 (1990)

Two Year's After His First Encounter with Chucky, Andy Is Living in Foster Care After His Mother Was Institutionalized for Backing up Her Son's Killer-Doll Claims in Court. When the Play Pals Corporation Begins Manufacturing Another Round of Good Guys Dolls, Chucky Is Reincarnated and Follows Andy to His New Home, Determined to Wipe out His Adoptive Parents (Genre-Veterans Jenny Agutter and Gerrit Graham) as Well as His Feisty Foster Sister, Kyle (Christine Elise).

2. Child's Play (1988)

After He Is Mortally Wounded Whilst Being Pursued Through a Toy Store by Det. Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), Serial Killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) Performs a Voodoo Spell That Transfers His Soul into a Good Guys Doll. Across Town, Widow Karen Barclay's (Catherine Hicks) Young Son Andy (Alex Vincent) Desperately Wants One of Those Very Dolls for His Birthday. Karen Is Thrilled When She Finds One for a Slashed Rate from a Street Vendor Outside of Her Work, but What the Young Mother and Her Son Don't Know Is That They've Just Opened Their Home to a Vicious Murderer.

1. Bride of Chucky (1998)

Tiffany (Tilly), the Ex-Girlfriend of Serial Killer Charles Lee Ray, Steals the Doll in Which Her Beau's Soul Is Trapped and Proceeds to Resurrect Him. Their Honeymoon Is Short-Lived, However, and After a Heated Confrontation, Chucky Electrocutes Tiffany, Trapping Her Soul in a Wedding-Dress-Clad Doll. in Order to Obtain an Amulet That Will Restore Them to Human Form, the Two Killers Hitch a Ride Across the Country with Teenage Runaways Jesse (Nick Stabile) and Jade (Katherine Heigl), Carving up Honeymooners and Law Enforcement Along the Way. Tiffany Valentine, a Voodoo-Practicing, Bustier-Clad Woman Living in a Trailer Park Obsessing over Her Deceased Serial Killer Ex, Whilst Desperately Cajoling Her Reluctant New Lover Damien (Alexis Arquette) to Begin a Hobby of Mass Murder, Has Seemingly Sauntered Directly out of a John Waters Film. ("You Never Really. .. Killed Anybody, Did You? Did You? You Pathetic Worm!" Tiffany Accuses Damien, in a Hissy-Fit Worthy of Mink Stole.) Mancini Has Flirted with a Waters-Influence Throughout the Series, but Here He Goes All-in and Proves Himself as an Admirable Successor to the Schlockmeister's Tasteless Artistry.

Every Child's Play Film, Ranked

By David Miller

• Oct 9, 2026 • 13 min read

Direct Answer • Key Takeaway

Don Mancini Was Barely out of His Teens, and Still Enrolled at Ucla, When He Conceived Child's Play, the Classic 1988 Film That Introduced Audiences Across the Globe to the Foul-Mouthed Slasher Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), Who Within the Opening Minutes Would Perform a Voodoo Spell to Place His Soul Inside the Plastic Bodice of a Good Guys Doll That Would Come to Be Called Chucky.

David Miller

Executive Financial & Market Analyst

David Miller brings 15 years of experience in global economics, personal finance strategy, and market dynamics. He specializes in turning complex economic trends into actionable insights for everyday readers.

Tags: childs play films ranked