Double Feature
Child’s Play
The “chills come thick and fast” (Los Angeles Times) as voodoo and terror meet within an innocent-looking doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who isn’t ready to die. From the director of Fright Night comes a “clever, playful” (The New York Times) and stylish thriller with “excellent special effects” (Leonard Maltin) and heart-pounding suspense guaranteed to scare! After 6-year-old Andy Barclay’s (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that “Chucky,” his new birthday doll, did it! Until things start going terribly wrong… dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror has just begun… the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being – young Andy! (MGM)
- Director
- Tom Holland
- Writer
- Screenplay by Don Mancini and John Lafia and Tom Holland, story by Don Mancini
- Starring
- Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff
- Year
- 1988
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 87 minutes
Dolls
They’re cute, they’re cuddly… and they kill! From horror director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and screenwriter Ed Naha (Troll) comes this “fiendish nightmare” (The Hollywood Reporter) that combines the pint-sized playmates of childhood with bone-chilling fun, resulting in “a bloody bonbon you chew with relish” (Los Angeles Times)! A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a week-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion. The old couple make and collect dolls that, when not sitting still like good little mannequins, creep around in the night, offing the guests one by one! (MGM)
- Director
- Stuart Gordon
- Writer
- Ed Naha
- Starring
- Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Bunty Bailey
- Year
- 1986
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA/Italy
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 77 minutes