Don Mancini, who has been a member of every Chucky project save 2019’s Child’s Play, invented the Child’s Play brand. It was a big deal, but Mancini is back to his old tricks: scaring people with a terrifying doll bent on evil.
On October 12, Chucky will air on USA and SYFY, just in time for the Oscars. A Chucky doll turns up at a yard sale in the suburbs, which kicks off the series. According to the official plot synopsis, it goes from there, “an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies and allies from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster.” Mancini is the showrunner, while Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly have returned as the voices of Chucky and Tiffany Valentine.
“One of the things that we pride ourselves on, and I think makes our franchise singular, is that we have spun a relatively consistent and coherent narrative over the course of 33 years and seven films and now eight episodes of television,” Mancini told Entertainment Weekly. “I think that’s one of the things that our fans like about the Chucky franchise.”
