Review: The controversy-stirring 'Child's Play' remake is creepy fun before it malfunctions
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jun 21, 2019
3 minutes
Beneath all the nasty jolts and vicious bloodlettings in the new "Child's Play" is almost enough material to furnish a mildly interesting episode of "Black Mirror."
A high-tech, ultra-gory reboot of the 1988 thriller that spawned a still-ongoing horror franchise, this new movie also turns on a creepy red-haired doll named Chucky, only this time he hasn't been supernaturally possessed by the soul of a serial killer. He's something altogether more banal, a defective robot manufactured by a powerful tech company, Kaslan, whose sleek Apple-like gadgets have all
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