Child's Play 2 (1990) on Netflix
Andy Barclay, eight, is placed with foster parents Phil and Joanne Simpson while his mother is institutionalized. Play Pals rebuilds the doll Chucky, who wants Andy's soul and is tracking him.
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Plot summary
The Play Pals Corporation acquires the remains of Chucky, the Good Guy doll, and reassembles him to reassure stockholders that nothing was wrong with the doll. A power surge during the reassembly brings the doll back to life. Andy Barclay, now eight, has been in foster care since his mother, Karen, was institutionalized for insisting the doll was alive. Foster parents Phil and Joanne Simpson take him in, with Phil apprehensive about Andy's needs, and Kyle, a teenage girl they are also fostering, lives there too. Chucky telephones Grace Poole, who manages the foster center, to get the Simpsons' address.
Cast
- Stuart Mabrayas Homicide Investigator
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Child's Play 2 (1990)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Graeme Revell was hired to compose Child's Play 2's score after lying to the studio that he had previously written an orchestral composition; his only prior scoring experience was the 1989 Australian horror film Dead Calm.
- Child's Play 2 was put on hold during pre-production when UA President Richard Berger told producer David Kirschner the studio was about to be acquired by Qintex, whose director Christopher Skase intended to ban the studio from producing horror films.
- The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees picketed the Child's Play 2 shoot to demand the production stop using non-union employees; the crew voted to sign a union contract in January 1990 shortly before filming wrapped.
- Christine Elise won the role of Kyle after auditioning against Shannen Doherty, Kristy Swanson and Holly Marie Combs, even though she nearly missed her follow-up audition while filming an episode of Baywatch.
SPOILER
Child's Play 2 was originally to open with a courtroom scene sentencing Karen Barclay to a mental institution, with Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon reprising their roles, but the scene was cut for budgetary reasons and later recycled as the ending of Curse of Chucky.- Brad Dourif recorded all of Chucky's dialogue in advance so his words would match the puppet's facial movements better than in the first film.
- MGM/UA commissioned a backup screenplay from Mark Patrick Carducci that would have put Andy in a mental institution after the first film's murders, but it was not used.
- Universal won the rights to the Child's Play series after Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy helped Sid Sheinberg persuade producer David Kirschner to accept a negative pickup deal; Disney had wanted the series for a horror attraction at Disney-MGM Studios.
