Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Child's Play (1988)

Second viewing; first seen on May 9, 1997.

A homicidal maniac is fatally wounded by a policeman but, before dying, manages to move his conscious self, along with all the psychological contents of his brain, to a toy doll. He then proceeds with his plan to exact revenge on both the partner who abandoned him and the cop who killed his former body.

Mostly a derivative, mediocre horror movie with some reasonably well-done set-pieces. I am sorry I cannot come up with something deeper and more intelligent than this; so that you do not consider this visit to my blog a complete waste of time, I direct you to a short review by Christopher Mulrooney which I found more accessible than his usual.

Rating: 42 (up from 29)

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