Curse of Chucky

 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 recent bloodshed and chaos.

I wasn't sure what to expect going into this movie.  The original Child's Play was a good movie and had actual scares in it.  The sequels got worse each time.  The last two were more comedy than horror and Seed of Chucky wasn't even that funny. 

In Curse of Chucky, writer/director Don Mancini returns to the horror tone of the first one.  The movie works much better than I thought it would.  Mancini raises the tension level by keeping the characters in one location for most of the movie.  Further ratcheting up the tension is that most of the action takes place in a single night.  

No thanks Chucky. 

 Brad Dourif returns to voice Chucky and play Charles Lee Ray in flashbacks.  His daughter Fiona plays Nica, who must deal with being confined to a wheelchair as well as Chucky. 

While the movie takes a straight horror approach it's not without humor.  The humor here mostly works and doesn't feel forced. 

There were a few plot twists I didn't see coming and I won't spoil them here, but they were great moments.

Overall it's good horror movie and lots of fun.