2019 · horror · sci-fi · slasher
Child's Play
Directed by Lars Klevberg1h 30m2019
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.
Our read: Child's Play (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · sci-fi · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
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How Child's Play feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want lean slasher kills, dark humor, and Mark Hamill voicing a murderous smart toy.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if kid-in-peril horror or bloody doll violence will ruin your night.
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