Episode 39 - Child's Play (1988)
Pod Mortem: A Horror Podcast
Reneé Hunter Vasquez, John Paul Vasquez, Travis Hunter-Sayapin
4.7 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Travis Hunter, |
| 0:31.4 | joined as always by my co-host, my sister, and my brother-in-law. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi, I'm Renee Hunter Vasquez. Hi, I'm John Paul Vasquez. This week, we're |
| 0:37.7 | broadcasting live from the alley behind a Chicago department store discussing the 1988 |
| 0:41.8 | horror classic Child's Play. The film was directed by Tom Holland, who shared |
| 0:46.5 | screenwriting credit with John Lafia and series creator Don Mancini. Drawing inspiration from |
| 0:51.7 | Trilogy of Terror in the Twilight Zone, this film took the well-worn |
| 0:55.2 | trope of a creepy doll and creatively fitted into the slasher subgenre. |
| 0:59.5 | The film received mostly positive reviews from critics with praise given to the story, |
| 1:03.5 | visual effects, and the fantastic voice work of Brad Dorif in the role of Chucky. |
| 1:08.0 | After the box office success of this film, Mancini spawned a film franchise which still continues to this day. |
| 1:13.8 | So, Child's Play. |
| 1:15.9 | What were your first impressions on the film? |
| 1:18.1 | So I know we watched this when we were kids, |
| 1:21.0 | but I can't remember a first time I ever saw this. |
| 1:25.6 | And then it's been so long since I've watched it that through the passage of time, |
| 1:31.0 | combined with what the franchise turned into, watching it again, not too long ago, |
| 1:36.5 | I was expecting a very high level of cheese. |
| 1:40.0 | No, yeah, me too. |
| 1:41.2 | I think it is because of what it turned into. |
| 1:43.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.0 | I don't really remember Childs Play of what it turned into. Yeah. |
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