Warning: This article contains spoilers. It was well over 30 years ago that we first met Charles Lee Ray in the original Child’s Play, a serial killer known as the “Lakeshore Strangler” who’s gunned down in a toy shop one night. Of course, Charles Lee Ray uses dark voodoo magic to transfer his soul into […]
David Kohlsmith
The Queer Horror of “Chucky” – Episode 3, “I Like To Be Hugged’
Each week Joe Lipsett will highlight a key scene or interaction in Don Mancini’s “Chucky” series to consider how the show is engaging with and contributing to queer horror. Last week the discussion of episode two focused on how Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) used his non-binary, gender fluid child as a bridge to connect […]
“Chucky”: David Kohlsmith Plays a Young Charles Lee Ray in Syfy’s ‘Child’s Play’ Series
SYFY and USA’s “Chucky” is a fully in-canon sequel series to the Child’s Play films. In fact, the new synopsis revealed that it will be somewhat of an origin story, offering up the backstory behind Charles Lee Ray, a serial killer known as the Lakeshore Strangler who transfers his soul into a “Good Guy” doll […]