Chucky, the killer doll with ginger hair and Brad Dourif or Mark Hamill’s voice, has been through a lot. Since the release of Child’s Play in 1988, he’s generated a slew of sequels, a dramatic tonal shift, a big-screen rebirth, and even comic books and theme park rides. His next move will be to get on television. And a new trailer for the upcoming SyFy show Chucky shows him unleashed on a new type of victim: a dead frog.
The show, which will premiere on SyFy and the USA Network on October 12, has released a new sneak peek teaser, which depicts the serial killer-possessed doll navigating suburban life. He’s in biology class with the adolescent who found him at a yard sale this time. Chucky is more than prepared to (covertly) step up when his young charge refuses to puncture a dead amphibian with a scalpel during frog dissection.
Chucky will be released two years after Child’s Play, which was a loose remake of the original with the exception of Dourif, who was replaced by Luke Skywalker himself. That picture made mediocre business, which could explain why the show chooses to focus on the events of 2013’s direct-to-video Cult of Chucky instead. Dourif is also returning, and Jennifer Tilly, who first appeared in Bride of Chucky and helped shift the series from horror to camp with wink-wink horror, will make an appearance at some point. The series has already backtracked on that, so we’ll soon see what approach it takes in its small-screen adaptation.
