Chucky doll returns meaner, funnier and queer than ever

• The

  Chucky

  series is streaming on the Salto platform, with the first two episodes, out of eight, available Friday.

• After seven films and a remake, the bloody doll is back on television, with almost all of the original team: creator, voice, heroes...

• The saga has changed tones over the years, alternately pure slasher, dark comedy,

  camp

  spirit , big anything, or all at once.

If it is neither the first nor the most prolific of its kind (it's

and his 13 films), Chucky is undoubtedly the most famous evil doll in cinema.

However, after the 1988 cult and trauma film, six sequels and a remake in 2019, she returns to television with a series, the first two episodes of which, out of eight, are available Friday on the Salto platform.

Still under the aegis of its original creator, Don Mancini, this reboot – but also a sequel – is an opportunity to return to a character and a license that have evolved a lot, from horror film to black comedy.

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A metaphor against figures of authority and oppression

As he tells it on the American site Mental Floss, Don Mancini had the idea for Chucky when he was studying cinema in Los Angeles in the 1980s, in the midst of consumerist and marketing madness, whose children were a privileged target and then that his father is himself a pubard.

It is also the era of the

, whose parody is better known in France with

.

His troubled relationship with his father, due to him being a gay teenager, also influences his storyline, and Don Mancini casts his hero, Andy Barclay, as a child with a single mother and no father figure.

Chucky was originally to be the literal metaphor for his repressed rage, before he became possessed by the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray.

This does not prevent him from taking revenge on figures of authority and oppression.

" I am not a monster "

The series is in the same vein, but more direct and inclusive, since its hero, Jake Wheeler, is openly gay, and as the Vulture site points out, Chucky, after having been an evil doll, a romantic antihero or a reluctant father, become… an LGBTQ+ ally!

"He got what he deserved," Chucky tells Jake in the first episode, after killing an important character [no spoiler].

I know a jerk when I see one.

Later, the killer doll will even mention that she has a queer, gender fluid child.

And Jake asks him if he's cool with that idea?

“I'm not a monster,” replies Chucky with his trademark bite and the inimitable voice of Brad Dourif.

The family is growing

Ah yes, Chucky has a child.

Even children, dolls and humans.

And a woman too, Tiffany.

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After three films on the relationship and the confrontation between Andy and Chucky, the saga introduced them respectively in

in 1998 and

in 2004. Don Mancini even extends his mythology with

and

, released direct-to-video in 2013 and 2017. Its sequels feature a new victim and heroine, Nica, but mostly bring back the now adult Andy.

And guess what?

They're all back to varying degrees in the

series , which, like

, is ultimately all about a

The tone of the license has also evolved over the years and films, and if the first trilogy can be seen as pure slasher à la Freddy, the following ones brew wide, with a Chucky who takes possession of humans, who multiplies into an army, which is the star of a film to its glory… Satire, meta,

, but also always more bloody killings, highlighting of dolls to the detriment of humans, and therefore of a Superstar Chucky.

The series is both a new introduction and a beautiful celebration of the character, one of a kind and already guaranteed to return for a season 2.

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