Don Mancini pens a script that takes Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) in a whole new direction. This one definitely leans into comedy and is very self-aware. Directed by Ronny Yu, who would direct Freddy vs. Jason a few short years later, there is a lot of fun to be had in this entry.

The opening sequence, which takes us through an evidence locker, has a lot of fun nods to other popular horror films. From that moment, you know it’s going to be a fun and goofy ride.

Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly, who entered full crush mode in this film) has a past with Chucky, and she’s hunted down his plastic remains and works to resurrect the pint-sized serial killer (again). She was his main girl when he was alive and human, and she always thought they would end up together. Something he finds laughable.

So that adds some friction to the relationship, which ends up in Chucky murdering her and transferring her soul into a doll. And the only way either of them can get out of them, now, is an amulet that Charles Ray (Brad Dourif) was wearing when he was killed back in 1988.

So they have to get to a cemetary in New Jersey. How? They con two star-crossed youngsters, Jesse (Nick Stabile) and Jade (Katherine Heigl) who are cast in the roles of Bonnie and Clyde as the bodies begin to pile up around them.

There’s a fun appearance by John Ritter, and there’s a lot of humour throughout, as well as copious amounts of blood.

The series seems to be going in a fun and different way now, and I’m sure they may have lost some viewers, but I thought it was a hoot. It’s funny, bloody and, yes, sexy. There’s a delighttful rapport between Tilly and Dourif, and the puppeteering and animatronic work on the dolls continues to be first-rate.

Mancini isn’t above poking fun at the series and the horror tropes it plays with.

Like the previous films, this one is barely an hour and a half, none of the films overstay their welcome, but sometimes you wish they were just a little longer. Especially when it comes to the character stuff.

There are lots of gags in this one, I love the moment when Tiff is on the bed, upset and crying a little, hoping to go to sleep, and kicks at the dead body still on the bed, to share the space.

I can’t wait to see what happens in Seed of Chucky!