Child’s Play and Chucky Movies in Order: Set a play date with Chucky—America’s favorite killer doll—with the Chucky Movies in order—Enjoy the blood-thirsty fun with Chucky terrorizing his old nemeses, pairing up with the demonic doll of his dreams, and finding new victims. With the Child’s Play reboot now in theaters (starring Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky), now would be a good time to revisit the first seven films in this iconic horror franchise.
Child’s Play (also called Chucky) is an American horror slasher media franchise created by Don Mancini. The films mainly focus on Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif in the original films and Mark Hamill in the reboot), a notorious serial killer who frequently escapes death by performing a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into a “Good Guys” doll. The film series originally started out as straight horror with the first installment Child’s Play, which appears to have more psychological horror elements, while the next two installments Child’s Play 2 and Child’s Play 3 are straightforward slasher films with elements of dark humor. In first three movies, Chucky torments his original victim, young Andy Barclay.
As the films progressed, they became satirical and campy, and the series briefly became a horror-comedy. In 1998’s Bride of Chucky and 2004’s Seed of Chucky, the bloodthirsty boy-toy meets the demonic doll of his dreams, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly). In 2013, Chucky returns for more terror in Curse of Chucky, where the murderous mop-top terrorizes a family with an unusual connection. The film was released on direct-to-video. Unlike Bride and Seed, Curse of Chucky is a full-fledged horror film much like the original three installments, but it does maintain the campy humor to a small degree. Finally, the seventh installment to the series, titled Cult of Chucky, takes this wild story in a whole host of new directions that franchise fans are sure to get a kick out of.
The Child’s Play series paid attention to the little details, and it never rebooted or ret-conned anything out; for better or worse, everything that happened in the Child’s Play franchise STAYED in the Child’s Play franchise. In addition to these films, Chucky has inspired comic books, video games, and a television show that’s been slated to release in the fall of 2021. So watch Chucky movies in order as per the chronological list mentioned below:
How to Watch Chucky and Child’s Play Movies in Order of Event
[Including Short Films and TV Series]
1. Child’s Play — 1988
Chucky made his first appearance in the 1988 film Child’s Play. In the film, a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray mortally wounded in a police shoot-out by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), uses a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into Chucky, a “Good Guys” doll, in an effort to escape from Detective Mike Norris. Pretending to be an inanimate object, Chucky later is given to young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) as a birthday gift from his mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) and Chucky soon resumes his killing spree and makes sure that the evidence points to Andy. The detective who shot the serial killer doesn’t believe Andy’s story but, as he is attracted to Andy’s mom, agrees to investigate. And Chucky doesn’t like that at all…
2. Child’s Play 2 — 1990
Chucky made his second appearance in the 1990 sequel, Child’s Play 2. Two years after the first film Chucky’s back! The notorious killer doll with the satanic smile comes back to life in this new chapter depicting the terrifying struggle between young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) and the demonic doll attempting to possess his soul. Despite being roasted to a crisp in his last escapade, Chucky rises from the ashes after being reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll. Back in one piece, Chucky tracks his prey to a foster home where the chase begins again in this fiendishly clever sequel to the enormously popular original.
3. Child’s Play 3 — 1991
One of filmdom’s most notorious killers is back to wreak more mayhem as Chucky continues his quest to possess the body of a human child. Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin) turns 16 and is placed in a military school. Meanwhile, the greedy president of Play Pals Toy Company decides to resurrect the popular Good Guys doll line, confident that all the bad publicity is forgotten. As the assembly line recreates the first doll from a mass of melted plastic, the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek revenge on Andy. Once again it’s up to Andy to stop the unrelenting killer in this fast-paced thriller.
4. Bride of Chucky — 1998
After being cut apart in the previous film, Bride of Chucky (1998) continues the story! For ten years, the tortured soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray has been imprisoned inside a child’s doll. “Chucky” is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound. But Chucky wants his new playmate cut down to size, so he transforms his blushing bride into a stunning little terror. Chucky and Tiffany can’t wait to start their own homicidal honeymoon. When this demonic duo hits the road and hooks up with a pair of unsuspecting newlyweds, they leave a trail of murder and mayhem behind them. Chucky’s back!
5. Seed of Chucky — 2004
Everyone’s favorite killer doll returns – as the Chucky legacy continues with the introduction of an all-new family member! Seed of Chucky (2004) follows six years after the previous film. This time around, Chucky (voiced again by Brad Dourif) and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then, the outrageous action goes Hollywood, as Chucky and his bride take Tinseltown by storm, unleashing a wild new rampage of murderous mayhem! The trio then set their sights on actress Jennifer Tilly (in a fictionalized version of herself), and hip-hop star Redman, it’s all about family values, Chucky-style!
6. Chucky’s Vacation Slides — 2005 (Short film)
The short, set after the shooting of Seed of Chucky, follows the movie stars Chucky, Tiffany, and Glen after having returned from a family vacation. While browsing through the photographs of their vacation on a slide projector, Tiffany notices various corpses in the background of certain photographs, realizing that Chucky has been killing people again. Tiffany leaves, with a distraught and sickened Glen, while Chucky continues to view the photographs. After a delivery man arrives with a pizza, Chucky leads him to his garage and kills him off-screen.
7. Chucky Invades — 2013 (Curse of Chucky Promotional Tie-in Videos Short film)
It is a series of short film video clips showing Chucky interrupting the events of several other horror films.
- The first clip, Chucky invades Psycho, has Chucky using a stepladder to kill Marion Crane in the shower; he is then discovered by Norman Bates.
- The second clip, Chucky invades The Purge, has Chucky invading the Sandin family’s home.
- In the third clip, Chucky invades Mama, follows Chucky as he hides under the bed of Victoria Desange before attacking her.
- The fourth clip, Chucky invades Drag Me to Hell, follows Chucky attacking Christine Brown in her car.
8. Curse of Chucky — 2013
Looking for revenge, The 2013 film Curse of Chucky saw the series return to the straightforward horror elements found in the first three films. The film takes place twenty-five years after the events of the first film, He’s back! From the filmmakers that brought you Chucky comes the terrifying return of the pint-sized doll possessed by the spirit of a notorious serial killer. When a mysterious package arrives at the house of Nica (Fiona Dourif, True Blood), she doesn’t give it much thought. However, after her mother’s mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the ensuing bloodshed and chaos. The return of America’s favorite toy, voiced again by Brad Dourif, is full of blood-splattered thrills and chills.
9. Cult of Chucky — 2017
In Cult of Chucky (2017), Chucky returns to torment a now institutionalized Nica, confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently smiling face — a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky’s now-grown-up nemesis from the original Child’s Play, races to Nica’s aid. But to save her he’ll have to get past Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), Chucky’s long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved devil doll.
10. Chucky — 2021 (TV series)
In the sequel to Cult of Chucky, the notorious Chucky slashes his way to television in a killer new series written and executive produced by creator Don Mancini, who penned the iconic film franchise. Set five years after Cult of Chucky in the city of Hackensack, New Jersey, 14-year-old teenage loner Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur) discovers a vintage ‘Good Guy’ doll at a suburban yard sale, a quiet American town soon erupts into mayhem as a blood-chilling murder spree begins to spill everyone’s deepest and darkest secrets. While Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) unleashes havoc, familiar faces from his past return and threaten to reveal his shadowy origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became the legendary murderous doll.
11. Child’s Play — 2019
In the 2019 reboot of Child’s Play, Chucky (voiced by Mark Hamill) is presented as a high-tech artificially-intelligent Buddi doll created by the Kaslan Corporation. Primarily designed to be a life-long companion to its owner by learning from its surroundings and acting accordingly, Buddi dolls can also connect to and operate other Kaslan products. One such doll has its safety precautions disabled by a disgruntled Kaslan employee during the assembly process, and as a result, Chucky gradually develops murderous tendencies as he tries to eliminate anyone or anything who’s stopping him and his “best buddy”, his owner Andy Barclay (Gabriel Bateman) from staying best friends forever.
How many Chucky movies are there?
There is a total of EIGHT (8) movies in the Chucky film series. Do you have to watch the Chucky movies in order? Even here is the list of all 8 movies with release dates i.e first Child’s Play (1988), Child’s Play 2 (1990), Child’s Play 3 (1991), Bride of Chucky (1998), Seed of Chucky (2004), Curse of Chucky (2013), Cult of Chucky (2017), and Child’s Play (2019). And if new movies will arrive in the future in this film series, you will get here update here in this post at a relevant time.
All Chucky Movies in Order of Release Date
Here is the list of Chucky films in order, they were released.
1. Child’s Play — November 9, 1988
2. Child’s Play 2 — November 9, 1990
3. Child’s Play 3 — August 30, 1991
4. Bride of Chucky — October 16, 1998
5. Seed of Chucky — November 12, 2004
6. Curse of Chucky — September 24, 2013
7. Cult of Chucky — October 3, 2017
8. Child’s Play — June 21, 2019
FAQ’s
1. Do you have to watch the Chucky movies in order?
A. Yes, watching the Chucky movies in order will help you to understand the full movie series. But in what order should I watch the Chucky movies? Chucky movie can be watched in two orders i.e Chucky in order of release date or Chucky movie in order of chronological order. By the way the release order and chronological order are same. Above both lists of Chucky movies are available.
2. Are all the Chucky movies connected?
A. Yes, All the Chucky movies share the same universe of story follows a vicious serial killer who, as he bleeds out from a gunshot wound, transfers his soul into a “Good Guy” doll and continuously tries to transfer it to a human body.
3. What is the first movie of Chucky?
A. Child’s Play (1988 film) is the first film in the Child’s Play series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky, follows a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
4. How tall is Chucky the doll in the movie?
A. Chucky is 29 inches (.74 m) tall in Child’s Play (1988) – just the ideal size to hunt and kill people.
Conclusion:
Enjoy the blood-thirsty fun with Chucky terrorizing his old nemeses, by watching the Chucky movies in chronological order along with, two short films and a TV series. Luckily, chronologically and by release date o main film series are the same. The order in which you do these things is up to you now. But when we watch it, we prefer to do so in order.
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