🍿 2022-11-09 19:00:29 – Paris/France.
34 years have passed since 'Muñeco diabolico' (1988) began to satirize the horror genre, with a possessed piece of plastic that has overcome all the tropes and subgenres that its creator, Don Mancini, you had time to imagine. For Season 2 of SYFY's "Chucky" series, the creator dives deep into religion and has no restraint in playing with convention and church authority figures.
In this new group of chapters, the tone of suspense contained in the first films which was reproduced in some of the episodes of the previous season is broken for return to the wildest and most unpredictable saga zone. 'Chucky' works well as a TV series because for years with the movies they've already set the precedent by telling serialized narrative stories with some continuity, weaving a web for decades, so now we're going deeper into the stories and relationships characters.
Chucky goes to mass
The first season saw the Good Guy doll try to corrupt the show's young protagonists into assassins and ended with a truckload of assassin-minded clones ready to besiege hospitals around the world. . The start of this continues that idea with a gorgeous action scene that spreads dozens of Chuckys all over the county, so danger is now unpredictable, but ready to build. a return to the most basic of the franchise, expanded on another scale.
However this time tries to delve into the subgenre that religious terrorplacing him in a Catholic school, a variant of the military academy of the third part, which leads to the scene of 'The curse of Damien' (The Omen II, 1978) or the recent resurgence of supernatural terror with priests and exorcists. Mancini was inspired by his own experience in a Catholic school where he learned the concept of transubstantiation.
The Catholic belief that during Mass, when the priest blesses the host and the wine is literally transformed into the flesh and blood of Christ, was found fascinating by the director, so much so that that the mythology is allowed to continue in key elements of the saga, in which plastic turns into meatbut here he uses that belief in the supernatural of true religion to remix his own "Chucky" universe.
“Bad education” with trans dolls
especially here, turn the character into an agent of provocation, as he's always specialized in subverting the status quo, chasing authority figures, or attacking hypocrisy, so it's a pretty fun scenario to unleash the petty terrorist. As always, Brad Dourif gives voice to the lighthearted sociopathy of not one, but several dolls, giving them admirable distinction and a sense of fun that sustains even the least entertaining episodes.
But it's not just Chucky in this season. Mancini goes wild and puts absolutely everything he wants in the pothomages to "A Clockwork Orange" in Almodóvar's cinema, finding its queer pride in the characters of Glen and Glenda from "The Seed of Chucky" (2004), the gender-fluid children of the protagonist and Tiffany, who reappear in a key moment of discussion on trans visibility.
Mancini is a transgressive horror-comedy genius and in this season 2 of 'Chucky' there's more John Waters than ever, his inexhaustible vision of the evil doll, takes the franchise to a unique combination humorous and menacing to what is established, using slasher as a weapon of LGTBI+ pride, unafraid of what the saga's biggest fans may say.
The creator uses queer horror to shoot repression with spurting blood and always creative deaths that make the unlikely idea of a miniature serial killer series still work, even with bottled episodes Detective story and a visual ambition that goes all the way to Gothic, with fantastical shots like this misty forest full of heads on stakes.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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