A Serial Killer
Few horror icons transformed the serial killer genre like Chucky did. Chicago, 1988. The dangerous serial killer Charles Lee Ray, better known as “The Lake Shore Strangler,” or maybe the younger ones might know him as Chucky, author of 43 deaths across the 7 films bearing his name. But what’s the origin of this adorable Good Guy doll?
Chucky and the Evolution of the Serial Killer Genre
Before dying, when you know death is coming or you feel it—that was Charles’s sensation when he enters a nearby toy store and takes a Good Guy doll, a toy shaped like a boy that’s the sensation of the moment because it talks.
Years ago, people paid for killer dolls.
That is, in 1988 talking dolls were already arriving, and his clothing gives him the name of simply being a good boy, but let’s not forget there are personalities that go with their name, and Charles didn’t want to die. So he managed to get the world to conspire to find a doll whose name coincidentally is Chucky (which is the diminutive of Charles), and knowing he’s about to die, he performs a voodoo ritual to transfer his spirit to the doll, declaring vengeance against his “killers” Eddie Caputo and detective Norris “the good guys.” The store explodes and Norris declares Lee Ray dead after finding his corpse.
Thus begins the saga of the diabolical doll, generating a series of events outside cinema, like a large crowd of protesters forming at MGM’s main entrance, demanding the film’s prohibition, since according to them, it would incite violence in children.
No more Good Guy!
I'm not ashamed of being a killer. I'm proud! It's not a simple addiction, it's a choice, and it's not something to hide in the closet. No sir!
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Until 2017, 29 years that this adorable and tender toy with child included tormented his nemesis or let’s call him “the movie’s good guy” Andy. For everyone, Chucky believes he has the happy ending, but as I’ve always said, there are no happy endings except the one Disney sold us.
So Andy dies, but Chucky’s head is in Kyle’s hands—those who never do anything but hold the power (time to talk about that invalid)—who fulfills Andy’s wish: to keep torturing Chucky. After the post-credits scenes in cinema, you hear the screams of pain from a Good Guy.
