History Film / CurseOfChucky

The sixth film in the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' [[Film/ChildsPlay series]], and the first released directly to video.

* WhamShot: Chucky[[spoiler:'s rubber mask beginning to fall apart, revealing his still patched-up face]].

** [[spoiler:We're led to believe that Ian is having an affair with his daughter's babysitter Jill. However it's revealed that it's his wife Barb is the one having the affair with Jill]].

* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Ian does this to Nica which only shown him to have TookInLevelInJerkass, so he can initially attempt to sic the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on her to make her spill out Alice's location, while preparing to intend to turn her over to the authorities once they arrive at the house with Nica gift wrapped for them to arrest her at ease without any physical resistance from her end and after Ian rescues Alice from Nica's clutches. While Ian believes he's being a PapaWolf if his daughter is in danger, this is instead framed as ultimately his MoralEventHorizon, followed by ending up paying for it as an AssholeVictim not long after.]][[invoked]]

* CastingGag: Barb, whose actress has narrow eyes compared to most people, is told by Chucky that she has her mother's eyes, and that he always disliked how close together they were.

* FallGuy: In the end the murders are pinned on [[spoiler: Nica by the police. There was evidence to back Nica's claims she didn't do it, chief among them the video evidence from the nanny cam. However her fingerprints were on each murder weapon and she was ranting about a killer doll being responsible. That would mean the police probably had little motivation to look for evidence that proved her innocent and every desire to pin this bloodbath on their only real suspect.]]

* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to sell her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly barista as she expected something more high-class than that.

* HiddenDepths: Ian seems rather preoccupied with the sexy nanny, Jill. But it's revealed [[spoiler: she's actually having an affair with his wife and he's already suspected as much. In fact he's taken steps to secure the evidence, which he intends to use to win their custody battle for their daughter. Much to Barb's surprise and horror as Ian also behaves like a jerk about it.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Barb, a self-serving BigSisterBully and an elitist GoldDigger RichBitch wannabe, is resentful of her sister getting more attention from their mother, tries to manipulate Nica to sell their family home because she wants cash, [[spoiler: has an affair with Jill]] and seems only concerned with herself.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Ian loses audience sympathy [[spoiler: for not believing Nica about Chucky, immediately viewing her as a psycho and then becoming a huge jerk. In his position there's two scenarios, Nica has lost her mind or a killer doll is on a rampage. Only one of those things is logical. However, it is worth noting that just before his death; when he replays the camera, he clearly sees Chucky move and hears a voice that he knows Nica will never replicate. By the time the former makes sense to him, he's already...[[ThisCannotBe forcibly speechless and presumably hesitating in denial]], [[TooDumbToLive which caused him to stoop to being an idiot as it would allow Chucky to ambush and then kill him]].]]

* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: [[spoiler:Andy puts a shotgun at pointblank to Chucky's head when he shows up at his place and fires. Justified, as Chucky is small and quick, making pointblank range the best chance of killing him in one shot.]]

* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:An unsympathetic example, as Ian WronglyAccused Nica for being a killer and Alice's kidnapper and tried to interrogate her after tying her up to squeeze out her daughter's location from her. However, rather showing him as a dedicated father who love his children so much that he would take action, it instead shows him as a shortsighted, boorish, selfish, possessive and impulsive thug who judges his sister-in-law as the culprit and driven by narcissistic love for his daughter senselessly without ever listening to common reason like how can a wheelchair-bound woman commit murders in her feeble state and is easily to get disillusioned with Nica despite should knowing she would never harm her own family after bonding with her for years before the events of this film. Ian ends up no better than his wife Barb of being unworthy as Alice's parent.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Barb seems to an ableist as she resents her sister Nica for her paraplegia.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In a deleted scene, [[spoiler:enroute to the police station, Officer Stanton contemptuously gives one to Nica after arresting her, even showing his WickedCultured HiddenDepths for his knowledge in ancient Egyptian history as he condemns her]].

* TheSociopath: Barb can be considered this as she is selfish and manipulative, not caring for others except herself and likely implied to never had mourned for her mother's passing to begin with. Chucky is also this of course as usual in the series. While Chucky is a high-functioning example, Barb is a low-functioning example.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite Nica and Ian having a good in-law relationship in the film, [[spoiler:it ultimately turns out be be hollow and feeble as Ian was quick to [[WronglyAccused wrongly accuse]] Nica as a BrokenPedestal to him for the deaths of Barb and Jill and Alice's kidnapping, while refusing to listen to Nica of what's really going on despite having knowing Nica all his life before the events of the film]].

* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: [[spoiler:Creator/JenniferTilly is credited at the beginning of the ending credits in order to not spoil that Tiffany appears in the film. Similarly, Creator/AlexVincentActor goes completely uncredited so as to not spoil Alex returning in TheStinger.]]

* CallBack: Alice quoting Chucky to her mother including his profane language is a direct reference to Andy doing the same to his mother in the first film.

* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her. However, it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]

* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:When Nica locks herself in the house's elevator to escape him, she has to physically hold the door shut, allowing him to slash at her fingers which unlike her legs can feel pain. She eventually just grabs the knife by the blade to wrench it away from him.]]

* FeelNoPain: [[spoiler:Nica takes advantage of her paralyzed legs being unable to feel pain by using them to absorb an axe swing from Chucky.]]

* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlashedThroat from her sharpened finger nails.

** [[spoiler: ''Cult Of Chucky'' reveals that the Chucky sent to Andy wasn't the same Chucky we followed throughout the movie. That Chucky successfully managed to possess Alice, killed a few people, but later got stopped and killed, killing Alice as well, making the ending more bitter then sweet.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:We're led to believe that Ian is having an affair with his daughter's babysitter Jill. However it's revealed that it's his wife Barb is the one having the affair with Jill]].

* AnAxeToGrind: This film does feature some axe-murdering. Chucky kills [[spoiler: Ian with an axe to the jaw and then attempts to kill Nica with it. Though she's able to deflect the blow into her leg where it's painless.]]

* UncannyValley: Invoked. There's just something off about the way Chucky looks, even before he reveals his true nature, but considering the film is aiming for a CreepyDoll vibe, it's rather appropriate. It's especially clear when he's about to [[http://www.infinitehollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Chucky6.png move]].

** Chucky being mailed to someone who is revealed to be [[spoiler:Andy Barclay]]. He then greets him with [[spoiler:a shotgun to the head]].

* InTheStyleOf: Due to the DirectToVideo nature of this installment, its limited production value gives this film a vibe of a ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode.

* InTheStyleOf: Due to the DirectToVideo nature of this installment, its limited production value gives this film a vibe of a Series/MastersOfHorror episode.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite Nica and Ian having a good in-law relationship in the film, [[spoiler:it ultimately turns out be be hollow and feeble as Ian was quick to WronglyAccused Nica as a BrokenPedestal to him for the deaths of Barb and Jill and Alice's kidnapping, while refusing to listen to Nica of what's really going on despite having knowing Nica all his life before the events of the film]].

The sixth film in the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play]]'' [[Film/ChildsPlay series]], and the first released directly to video.

* AnAxeToGrind: This film does feature some axe-murdering. Chucky kills [[spoiler: Ian with an axe to the jaw and then attempts to kill Nica with it. Though she's able to deflect the blow into her leg where it's painless.]]

* CallForward: In the flashbacks, the knife human Chucky wields is the same as the one he wields as a doll in the first movie, thus explaining how he got it: after transferring his soul, he took the knife from his human body and hid it in his overalls.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The ''Film/SinCity''-like FlashBack, with the odd SplashOfColor.

--> '''Chucky:''' [[spoiler: You have your mother's eyes... And they were always too FUCKING CLOSE TOGETHER!]]

* EvilCripple: Both [[spoiler: Ian and the police]] accuse Nica of being the real culprit. The truth doesn't help her case. [[spoiler: The general public likely perceives her as a crazed murderer who butchered her own mother, sister, brother-in-law and a priest.]]
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlashedThroat from her sharpened finger nails.

* HighVoltageDeath: How [[spoiler:Jill meets her end]].
* HiddenDepths: Ian seems rather preoccupied with the sexy nanny, Jill. But it's revealed [[spoiler: she's actually having an affair with his wife and he's already suspected as much. In fact he's taken steps to secure the evidence, which he intends to use to win their custody battle for their daughter. Much to Barb's surprise and horror as Ian also behaves like a jerk about it.]]

** The scene where [[spoiler:Andy]] says "[[PreMortemOneLiner Play with this]]" while wielding a shotgun is lifted almost verbatim from a scene in the 1991 Child's Play MockBuster "Dolly Dearest".

* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Jill]], frustrated by not being able to locate the doll for Alice, ends up getting one from [[spoiler: Barb.]]

* VerbThis: [[spoiler:Andy]]'s PreMortemOneLiner: "Play with [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter this]]."
* VillainDecay: Inverted. There's not much humor involving Chucky, the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also a lot more angry, violent, and sadistic than he was in any of the past films. While this could be explained out-of-story as attempting to drop some of the humor introduced in the previous entries, it can be explained in-story as [[spoiler:Chucky having personal history with the family in question]].