list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Child's Play on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Child_s_Play/5873/default.aspx Title: Child's Play
Year: 1988
Director: Tom Holland
Plot: Child's Play seems to have been concocted by a parent who went berserk after standing in line for hours on end to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980s. The film opens with serial killer Brad Dourif taking refuge in a doll factory. Dourif is killed by the cops, but not before he has invoked a voodoo curse which transfers his soul into one of the dolls. That particular doll, nicknamed Chuckie, is unwittingly purchased by Catherine Hicks for her son Alex Vincent. Several murders occur shortly thereafter; all evidence points to Alex, who insists that his cherub-faced doll is responsible. Detective Chris Sarandon, the man responsible for Dourif's death, doesn't swallow Alex's story, but he agrees to investigate because he's sweet on Alex's mom. The slasher-flick ending of Child's Play would seem to have settled Chuckie's hash for good and all, but guess again--the film spawned numerous sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:22:21 GMTChild's Play1988Tom HollandChild's Play seems to have been concocted by a parent who went berserk after standing in line for hours on end to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980s. The film opens with serial killer <a href="/players/P____19921/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Brad Dourif</a> taking refuge in a doll factory. Dourif is killed by the cops, but not before he has invoked a voodoo curse which transfers his soul into one of the dolls. That particular doll, nicknamed Chuckie, is unwittingly purchased by <a href="/players/P____32179/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Catherine Hicks</a> for her son Alex Vincent. Several murders occur shortly thereafter; all evidence points to Alex, who insists that his cherub-faced doll is responsible. Detective <a href="/players/P____63156/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Chris Sarandon</a>, the man responsible for Dourif's death, doesn't swallow Alex's story, but he agrees to investigate because he's sweet on Alex's mom. The slasher-flick ending of Child's Play would seem to have settled Chuckie's hash for good and all, but guess again--the film spawned numerous sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)21133http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t03284awnuk.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Child_s_Play/5873/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_Scarred_for_Life_Most_traumatic_movie_memorie/563/30823/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: cinechic
Post To: Filmgaming
Post Date: 6/7/2008 1:08:14 AM
Body: My mom claims not to be a movie person nor a good Catholic, but I'm not so sure. Case in point:One day when I was five, I learned how to make my voice hoarse. I was teasing my mom with it, who kept asking me to stop. She said it freaked her out, and even threatened to punish me. The brat I was, I didn't. So she did. My punishment? Not a grounding, but a showing of "The Exorcist", which my mom had told me the voice reminded her of. So at the tender age of five, I was exposed to Reagan and her spinning head, pea soup vomit, and crucifix vagina-stabbing. Needless to say, I never used that voice again, AND had the fear of God put into me at an early age.Second place: me, at the age of six, wanting to hang out with my older and therefore cool cousins. I find them in the basement, watching a movie. I watch it for a moment, say, "Ooh, a doll!" and sit down with them. They, being teenage boys, let me watch the movie with them. The movie they were watching? "Child's Play." Gah!
]]>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:08:14 GMTcinechicFilmgaming6/7/2008 1:08:14 AMMy mom claims not to be a movie person nor a good Catholic, but I'm not so sure. Case in point:One day when I was five, I learned how to make my voice hoarse. I was teasing my mom with it, who kept asking me to stop. She said it freaked her out, and even threatened to punish me. The brat I was, I didn't. So she did. My punishment? Not a grounding, but a showing of "The Exorcist", which my mom had told me the voice reminded her of. So at the tender age of five, I was exposed to Reagan and her spinning head, pea soup vomit, and crucifix vagina-stabbing. Needless to say, I never used that voice again, AND had the fear of God put into me at an early age.Second place: me, at the age of six, wanting to hang out with my older and therefore cool cousins. I find them in the basement, watching a movie. I watch it for a moment, say, "Ooh, a doll!" and sit down with them. They, being teenage boys, let me watch the movie with them. The movie they were watching? "Child's Play." Gah! http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_top_five_movies_that_scared_the_crap_out_of_you/190/23778/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: asnakeofjuly
Post To: Top 5
Post Date: 1/11/2008 12:51:33 PM
Body: All the ones that I remember have already been mentioned. Willy Wonka, Gremlins, Alien, Child's Play, but I also remember one night I stayed up and caught Akira on television. The scene with Tetsuo's ' hallucinations' of the giant toys spewing milk gave me nightmares for years to come before I finally saw it again when I was older.
]]>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:51:33 GMTasnakeofjulyTop 51/11/2008 12:51:33 PMAll the ones that I remember have already been mentioned. Willy Wonka, Gremlins, Alien, Child&#39;s Play, but I also remember one night I stayed up and caught Akira on television. The scene with Tetsuo&#39;s &#39; hallucinations&#39; of the giant toys spewing milk gave me nightmares for years to come before I finally saw it again when I was older. http://www.spout.com/blogs/gradysghost/archive/2007/5/18/9013.aspx Post By: GradysGhost
Post To: GradysGhost Blog
Post Date: 5/18/2007 8:51:00 PM
Body: I came in early to work today only to find that the boss wouldn't let me clock in. So I went to the breakroom and turned on the TV and clickered through the "Movie and Event" channels. Everything was ending. Why watch the last twenty minutes of a movie if you've never seen the first and second acts?But one movie was just beginning. Mothra. Get this. An American visits an island near Japan where nuclear bomb testing took place years ago. Somehow or another, it left these twin girls fully matured but only a few inches tall. So the American steals them and puts them in a show for people to pay and see. They sing well, you understand, and they're freaks. But their songs have an underlying telepathic effect that calls upon the god those crazy miniature islanders worshipped - a giant moth called (you guessed it) Mothra (or Mosura in Japanese). The giant moth wreaks havoc on a cardboard Tokyo for awhile Godzilla-style (no, seriously) until the girls are finally returned to it.So I got to thinking about the movie. After all, I had an hour to do it and the only other thing on TV was Rachel Ray and I can't stand her. It occurred to me that Mothra is really a way for the Japanese to voice their anger with we Americans for nuking their country. See, an American came over and kidnapped some very small Japanese folks, then displayed them for money - a prime example of that capitalism stuff we all love so much - but the result of his actions was the destruction of the bulk of Tokyo. To state it even more briefly: a self-proclaimed American displaying American traits portrayed in evil light uses said evil trait to bring about the destruction of Tokyo.I guess they forgot they bombed us in Hawaii.But that's okay. We made a worse film about that.Enough.The point is, I saw something in Mothra that I didn't expect to. I analyzed Mothra. I analyzed a B-movie. Is that possible? That's one of the things I thought about before and after I clocked in. I thought maybe I should define what a B-movie is, at least as far as my thought process (and this article) is concerned. Like any genre film, a B-rated horror should meet certain criteria. - Involve a creature/monster/haunting of some sort - something supernatural, but tangible. - That creature (or whatever) should look really, really cheap onscreen. - Have bad acting or a poorly dubbed language track. Take your pick. For Mothra, the latter. (For the record, have you ever noticed that it's difficult to judge the quality of acting when it's in another language?) - Contain poor, cheap special effects. - Begin as a bad script with a poorly constructed story arc and almost no subplot written by a guy who didn't get paid much. (Notice how cheapness is a trend?) - At least one plot point must make absolutely no sense, even once you've suspended belief to adapt to the fact that you're watching a movie about a highly implausible creature. (In Mothra's case - humans somehow survived nuclear fallout on the island and became tiny. This is hard for me to believe, even though I'll believe a giant friggin' moth is decimating the vast majority of Tokyo, unstoppable even by some super-radio-heat-wave-ray-rifle-thingy.)Mothra meets these criteria. So does Godzilla. So do Child's Play and Plan 9 from Outer Space and Manos: the Hands of Fate. So what is there in a B-movie worth analysis?I think to get to the bottom of this, you have to ask someone who's a total crappy movie nut. Fortunately, you're in the immediate prescence of the Spout.com Filmblog of just such a one.Look beyond the crappiness. That's the key. B-movies are cheap. Not as glitzy as Hollywood might make them. Outdated. Look past it. Accept it as a genre in the same way that you categorize movies like The Poseidon Adventure and Twister with other "disaster flicks." These are all films about disasters happening to unsuspecting victims. They have their own criteria and "rules." Yet we find a connection to Gene Hackman, the preacher who gives his life, in The Poseidon Adventure. There's moral there. There's commentary.So look through the title "B-movie," which I think gets a bad rap because one the major criterion for the aquisition of that title involves a certain magnitude of crappiness. Mothra is still a story about Japanese people who are done a horrible injustice by an American. Agree with the message or not, that's it. Some would say I'm overthinking this, but what's a guy to do when he's got a couple of hours before the boss will let him on the clock?
]]>Sat, 19 May 2007 00:51:00 GMTGradysGhostGradysGhost Blog5/18/2007 8:51:00 PMI came in early to work today only to find that the boss wouldn&#39;t let me clock in. So I went to the breakroom and turned on the TV and clickered through the "Movie and Event" channels. Everything was ending. Why watch the last twenty minutes of a movie if you&#39;ve never seen the first and second acts?But one movie was just beginning. Mothra. Get this. An American visits an island near Japan where nuclear bomb testing took place years ago. Somehow or another, it left these twin girls fully matured but only a few inches tall. So the American steals them and puts them in a show for people to pay and see. They sing well, you understand, and they&#39;re freaks. But their songs have an underlying telepathic effect that calls upon the god those crazy miniature islanders worshipped - a giant moth called (you guessed it) Mothra (or Mosura in Japanese). The giant moth wreaks havoc on a cardboard Tokyo for awhile Godzilla-style (no, seriously) until the girls are finally returned to it.So I got to thinking about the movie. After all, I had an hour to do it and the only other thing on TV was Rachel Ray and I can&#39;t stand her. It occurred to me that Mothra is really a way for the Japanese to voice their anger with we Americans for nuking their country. See, an American came over and kidnapped some very small Japanese folks, then displayed them for money - a prime example of that capitalism stuff we all love so much - but the result of his actions was the destruction of the bulk of Tokyo. To state it even more briefly: a self-proclaimed American displaying American traits portrayed in evil light uses said evil trait to bring about the destruction of Tokyo.I guess they forgot they bombed us in Hawaii.But that&#39;s okay. We made a worse film about that.Enough.The point is, I saw something in Mothra that I didn&#39;t expect to. I analyzed Mothra. I analyzed a B-movie. Is that possible? That&#39;s one of the things I thought about before and after I clocked in. I thought maybe I should define what a B-movie is, at least as far as my thought process (and this article) is concerned. Like any genre film, a B-rated horror should meet certain criteria. - Involve a creature/monster/haunting of some sort - something supernatural, but tangible. - That creature (or whatever) should look really, really cheap onscreen. - Have bad acting or a poorly dubbed language track. Take your pick. For Mothra, the latter. (For the record, have you ever noticed that it&#39;s difficult to judge the quality of acting when it&#39;s in another language?) - Contain poor, cheap special effects. - Begin as a bad script with a poorly constructed story arc and almost no subplot written by a guy who didn&#39;t get paid much. (Notice how cheapness is a trend?) - At least one plot point must make absolutely no sense, even once you&#39;ve suspended belief to adapt to the fact that you&#39;re watching a movie about a highly implausible creature. (In Mothra&#39;s case - humans somehow survived nuclear fallout on the island and became tiny. This is hard for me to believe, even though I&#39;ll believe a giant friggin&#39; moth is decimating the vast majority of Tokyo, unstoppable even by some super-radio-heat-wave-ray-rifle-thingy.)Mothra meets these criteria. So does Godzilla. So do Child&#39;s Play and Plan 9 from Outer Space and Manos: the Hands of Fate. So what is there in a B-movie worth analysis?I think to get to the bottom of this, you have to ask someone who&#39;s a total crappy movie nut. Fortunately, you&#39;re in the immediate prescence of the Spout.com Filmblog of just such a one.Look beyond the crappiness. That&#39;s the key. B-movies are cheap. Not as glitzy as Hollywood might make them. Outdated. Look past it. Accept it as a genre in the same way that you categorize movies like The Poseidon Adventure and Twister with other "disaster flicks." These are all films about disasters happening to unsuspecting victims. They have their own criteria and "rules." Yet we find a connection to Gene Hackman, the preacher who gives his life, in The Poseidon Adventure. There&#39;s moral there. There&#39;s commentary.So look through the title "B-movie," which I think gets a bad rap because one the major criterion for the aquisition of that title involves a certain magnitude of crappiness. Mothra is still a story about Japanese people who are done a horrible injustice by an American. Agree with the message or not, that&#39;s it. Some would say I&#39;m overthinking this, but what&#39;s a guy to do when he&#39;s got a couple of hours before the boss will let him on the clock? http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/top_five_movies_that_scared_the_crap_out_of_you_as/190/3406/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Moose
Post To: Top 5
Post Date: 10/24/2006 2:45:27 AM
Body: 1. Dumbo (the pink elephants on parade made me run out of the room in fright. It is my earliest childhood memory)2. Return to Oz (That crap'll give you nightmares)3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (It's all disturbing plus my sister taught me to fear little people)4. E.T. (His freaky glowing heart, that awful noise he makes, I hate E.T.)5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (The bad guy at the end with the high voice and eyeballs that turn into knives)
]]>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:45:27 GMTMooseTop 510/24/2006 2:45:27 AM1. Dumbo (the pink elephants on parade made me run out of the room in fright. It is my earliest childhood memory)2. Return to Oz (That crap'll give you nightmares)3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (It's all disturbing plus my sister taught me to fear little people)4. E.T. (His freaky glowing heart, that awful noise he makes, I hate E.T.)5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (The bad guy at the end with the high voice and eyeballs that turn into knives) http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Best/MemberTagFilms.aspxBest
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