Don Mancini

I'd watch that.

Oh, I have an idea for a new Chucky movie, but I don't think Mancini's gonna listen to me.

You might.

I don't think you will.

Hindsight.

Yeah, I kind of needed them.

I mean, Don Mancini was solo on this one for writer.

And I mean, he didn't like the whole voodoo thing added by Tommy Wallace in the first one.

And I also love that this character is named Michelle Mancini, which is our, like, one really obvious horror reference in here.

Which is funny 'cause Don Mancini did Chucky, Brad Dourif is Chucky.

Like-

Correct.

What's his name? The guy who, like, kind of...

Don Mancini, the guy who wrote

the Chucky movies.

Oh, yeah, Don Mancini.

I noticed his

name.

actresses in the world.

The forever middle-aged actresses.

I think where they went wrong, and when I was watching it, there's little sprinkles of they got the idea from the original franchise.

Don Mancini, who took over, he had already said he didn't like the voodoo aspect of it, but it obviously worked out for him.

But in the very beginning, the salesman looks at the owner of the toy company, and he says they think that somebody might have...

Talk hacked into Chucky's voice box.

Yeah, they did an interview with Alex Benson, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon from the first one, his daughter, Jennifer Tilly, the directors, the creator.

And then you learn that there was actually some drama to the point where Tom Holland was the original director in the first one.

One, they had some feud going on between him and Don Mancini and I think Kevin Yeager, it was so bad that he he kicked them off of the set.

It got so bad.

And that's what makes the referencing in these early movies work so well is that it usually comes again.

And I think having Don Mancini putting a spin on it as a writer is a big part of that.

Yeah, because you have not only Psycho, but then Echoes, more than Echoes, I suppose, of Frankenstein, because they're literally putting this doll back together, like Frankenstein does the monster.

And this is where the...

Well, he's at the orphanage when we see him first.

Yeah.

And my note was, the character pairings from the original are back! In photographic form! I think this series, and I think I mostly credit Don Mancini with a lot of this, and his writing, but they do kitsch and absurdity really well, this series, throughout.

And nearly like when the foster family are taking Andy home and they nearly crash into a good guy's truck.

Then it's fucking on from there.

And from what I've read, Don Mancini said that Child's Play 2 is closer to what he wanted to do in Child's Play 1.

He just wasn't able to go there.

So the effects are better.

Yes.

And this is said to be Don Mancini's second favorite-

Ooh

... of the movie, the Chucky movies he's made.

Like, that's the last I heard about it.

It's on Netflix.

Um, but yeah, Don Mancini came back with David Kirschner.

Uh, it was-