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Directed by | Ronny Yu |
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Written by | Don Mancini |
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Characters by Don Mancini David Kirschner (Chucky & Tiffany dolls) |
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Music by | Graeme Revell |
Cinematography | Peter Pau |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $50.7 million |
Bride of Chucky is a 1998 American supernatural comedy slasher film and the fourth installment of the Child's Play franchise. The film is written by Don Mancini and directed by Ronny Yu, and stars Jennifer Tilly (who plays and voices the title character Tiffany) and Brad Dourif (who voices Chucky), as well as John Ritter, Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile.
Unlike the first three Child's Play films, this film takes a more humorous turn and often into self-referential parody. It does not continue on with the concept of a child victim in possession of the doll, thus the absence of Child's Play in the title. From this entry and onward, Chucky became the official brand name of the film series. Bride of Chucky follows the events of Child's Play 3 in continuity, but not tonally or in a continuation of those films' overall plot (where Chucky pursued the character Andy Barclay in the first and second films and later Tyler in the third film). This film also marks Chucky's new permanent look, a more frightening appearance in which his face is covered in stitches, staples, and scars following his fate in Child's Play 3. Although made seven years after, the setting is one month following the events depicted in Child's Play 3, as the previous film took place chronologically in 1998 anyway, eight years after Child's Play 2. It was followed by Seed of Chucky in 2004, set six years after the film.