Child's Play 3 is a 1991 horror film. It is the third installment in the Child's Play series with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky. The film became notorious in the United Kingdom when it was suggested it may have inspired the real-life murder of British child James Bulger, a suggestion rejected by officers investigating the case
Plot :
Eight years after the events of Child's Play 2,
Play Pals (Good Guys) has recovered from bad publicity arising from
Chucky's murder spree. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls
and recycles Chucky's remains. However, the soul of serial killer
Charles Lee Ray still inhabited the remains, and Chucky is soon revived
in a new doll body. Chucky is unwittingly given to Play Pals' CEO
Mr. Sullivan, whom Chucky tortures and kills using various instruments.
He then uses computer records to relocate Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin).
Still troubled by his past encounters with Chucky, sixteen year old
Andy has been sent to Kent Military School. Colonel Cochran (Dakin Matthews), the school's commandant,
begrudgingly enrolls Andy, but advises him to forget his "fantasies"
about the doll. Inside the school, Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey
Whitehurst (Dean Jacobson), Ronald Tyler (Jeremy Sylvers), and Kristin
DeSilva (Perrey Reeves), for whom he develops romantic feelings. He also meets Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine), a lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets.
Not long after Andy arrives, Tyler is asked to deliver a package to
his room. Tyler is fascinated with Good Guy dolls after seeing an ad on
the TV upon their comeback. After accidentally dropping and ripping
Andy's package, he realizes that the package contains a Good Guy doll.
Excited, he takes the new toy to the cellar and unwraps it. Once freed,
Chucky scolds Tyler for opening the package he was suppose to give to
Andy. But realizing he has a new body, he decides to tells Tyler his
true identity to take over his body instead. But just as Chucky is about
to possess him, they are interrupted by Cochran, who takes the doll
away. Cochran throws Chucky into a garbage truck, but Chucky escapes by
luring the driver into the truck's compactor
and crushing him. That night, Chucky attacks Andy and tells him his
plans for taking over Tyler's soul. But before Andy can attack Chucky,
Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy tries to get the doll
back by sneaking into Shelton's room, but Shelton catches him in the
act. Upon realizing the doll has vanished, Shelton suspects it stolen
and forces all the cadets to do exercises in the courtyard as
punishment.
Andy tries to warn Tyler about Chucky, but is initially unheeded. At one point, Chucky lures Tyler into playing hide-and-seek
in Cochran's office, where he attempts to possess the boy again.
However, they are interrupted by DeSilva and, moments later, Cochran
himself. When the cadets leave, Cochran is confronted by a
knife-wielding Chucky. The resulting shock causes Cochran to suffer a
fatal heart attack.
Despite Cochran's death, Shelton declares that the school's annual war games
will proceed as planned, with Andy and Shelton on opposing teams.
However, Chucky secretly replaces the paint bullets of one team with
live ammunition. When the simulation begins, Chucky accosts Tyler, then
threatens the boy when he refuses to take part. Tyler stabs Chucky with a
pocket knife and flees, trying to find Andy. Chucky then attacks
DeSilva and holds her hostage, attempting to lure the teams into
fighting each other to save her. Chucky forces Andy to exchange DeSilva
for Tyler.
Suddenly, the red team descends upon the area and obliviously opens
fire with their live rounds. Shelton is killed in the crossfire. Amidst
the chaos, Tyler makes a quick getaway, but before giving chase, Chucky
tosses a live grenade at the quarreling cadets. Recognizing the danger,
Whitehurst bravely leaps on top of the grenade and sacrifices himself to
save the others. With no time to mourn his friend, Andy heads off in
pursuit of Chucky, with DeSilva close behind.
Eventually the chase leads the group into a haunted house at a nearby carnival.
Ronald tries to get a security guard to help him, but Chucky kills the
guard off screen and kidnaps Tyler. In the ensuing melee, Chucky shoots
DeSilva in the leg, leaving Andy to fight Chucky alone, once again. When
Tyler is inadvertently knocked out, Chucky seizes the opportunity to
possess him, but Andy intervenes, shooting him several times. Enraged,
Chucky attempts to strangle Andy, but Andy uses Tyler's knife to cut off
Chucky's hand, dropping him into a giant fan which slices him to
pieces. Afterwards, Andy is taken away by the police for questioning,
but ensures DeSilva that he will be okay, as he's "dealt with them
before". As the police car drives away, DeSilva is taken to the nearby
hospital. Tyler's fate is never revealed. At the end of the movie, a
janitor walks around the park cleaning up the place while all the rides
are shutting down. He then walks towards the haunted house, where Chucky
was killed.
