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Chucky, with his fiery red hair and frighteningly trustworthy pledge to be "your friend till the end," was never gay by design. But in , four films into the "Child's Play" franchise, the undying slasher flicks centered on a ghastly '80s-era talking doll took a campy, gay twist with the sequel "Bride of Chucky."
We have out Chucky creator Don Mancini to hail for the queering of Chucky, who fathered a gender-fluid kid named Glen / Glenda with goth-turned-glam lady doll Tiffany Valentine in 's "Seed of Chucky," notably featuring filth king John Waters and a Britney Spears look-alike (Chucky's reaction to running her off the road? "Oops, I did it again").
Doubling as Tiffany and herself is lesbian fave and voice of the plastic assassin Jennifer Tilly, who returns for the Good Guy doll's seventh film, "Cult of Chucky," to wreak havoc on the patients and staff at a mental institution, among them a gay nurse named Carlos (Zak Santiago). Chucky is scary again, as "Cult" begins where his reentry into straight-up, decamped horror via 's "Curse of Chucky" left off.
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As Chucky series creator Don Mancini told SYFY in an interview after the Season 1 finale of his recent show on SYFY & USA, horror is "a genre about outsiders; the beauty of being an outsider," which is why crossovers between the LGBTQ+ community and the horror genre are so common. In his new series, Chucky goes out of his way to show his allyship, going so far as to murder our new hero Jake Wheeler's (Zackary Arthur) homophobic father Luke (Devon Sawa) at the end of the first episode. With that admittedly extreme act, Chucky cements his new place in Jake's life as a murder mentor and the kind of accepting parental figure Jake never had.
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However, is Chucky really an ally? In the above video, we've highlighted Chucky's allyship throughout Season 1, but in talking to Mancini, it becomes distinct how much nuance there is to Chucky's interest in the matter of queerness.
Mancini says that, in short, yes, Chucky is a queer ally. However, much of Season 1 sees Chucky exploring his verb
Don Mancini: The Creator of Chucky is Gay?
Don Mancini is an American screenwriter and director. He’s most known for writing the Child’s Play series of movies. He has been a fan of the horror genre since he was a kid. He was inspired to write Child’s Play from the “Talky Tina” episode of The Twilight Zone. But doing so wasn’t adj. Numerous animatronics needed to have been made to donate the killer doll his in movie movements.
Mancini found amusement in the hysteria that surrounded Cabbage Patch Kids in the mid ’s while he was a film learner at UCLA. His father worked in marketing, and as such, he knew how effective marketing really was. Based on this, Mancini wanted to record a dark satirical movie about how marketing affected children, with his first attempt becoming the co-writer of Child’s Play.
The Child’s Perform series is an astonishing piece of work for the time. It is considered one of the most LGBTQ friendly horror franchises. Don Mancini himself is gay, and quite a limited of the characters in his works are also LGBTQ. Tiffany Valentine, first appearing in Bride of Chucky, i
Chucky Turns a Weary Horror Cliché on Its Head
Chucky explicitly links Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur) exploring his sexual identity with him exploring his killer instincts, but without any of the shame that traditionally colors such metaphors. Photo: Steve Wilkie/USA Network
Charles Lee “Chucky” Ray has taken on many different roles in the plus years since his debut in Child’s Play. Beyond the obvious — serial killer turned corrupt doll — he’s been a lovey-dovey antihero in Bride of Chucky, a reluctant father in Seed of Chucky, and a wisecracking shock jock as a mainstay at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. Now on Chucky, his first TV series, the titular excellent guy gone terrible is something Chucky has never been before: an LGBTQ+ ally.
On the exhibit, now airing Tuesdays on Syfy and USA, Chucky has fallen into the hands of year-old Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), a bullied loner struggling with his crush on classmate Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and the abuse he faces from his single dad, Lucas (Devon Sawa). By the end of the first episode, Chucky has revealed himself to