Dead Silence (2007)
As Chucky said, "Didn't even get a franchise." So let's dig into why that happened in 2007's "Dead Silence" with otherwise reliable franchise-creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell.
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Friends 'Till the End
Comics creators Erica Henderson, Benito Cereno and Matt D. Wilson tackle each episode of SyFy/USA's series "Chucky," and maybe some more Child's Play to boot!
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Episodes
The Twilight Zone, "Living Doll" (1963)
We're changing streams with this episode and starting a series about the stuff Chucky saw on TV in "Chucky" season 3! We're starting with the TV episode that arguably started it all: "Living Doll" from season 5 of "The Twilight Zone"!
May 17, 2025•57 min
The First Purge (2018)
Fourth movie, first Purge. But they're not even calling it The Purge yet. Does this prequel experiment succeed?
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 23 min
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Happy Purge Day (belated)! We're celebrating this year's Purge by watching 2016's The Purge: Election Year in which there's a big argument about whether it's better to fight tyranny from within the system or via a full-on armed rebellion. The escapism of entertainment, everyone!
Mar 22, 2025•1 hr 55 min
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The Purge continues on this month's episode with the second film in the franchise, "The Purge: Anarchy"! Does this one follow through on the promise of the first movie's premise? Does it dive further into the socioeconomic conflict at the heart of the idea? And Frank Grillo is basically The Punisher, right?
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 44 min
The Purge (2013)
Our long journey through The Purge series begins with the first Purge film (not to be confused with The First Purge). How well does this low-budget home invasion flick live up to its lofty high concept? We watch and find out!
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Krampus (2015)
The holidays are here, so let's watch the 2015 Krampus movie and decide if it's good or not.
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Final Destination 5 (2011)
We're closing out our look at the Final Destination series (so far) with this entry that has...a TWIST! We also consider whether this is the final destination for our own show now that Chucky has been cancelled. Where do we go from here? Listen and find out!
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 56 min
The Final Destination (2009)
We're contiuning our run through the Final Destination series of films with the fourth entry in the franchise, an apparent attempt to inject some new energy into it...in 3D! So does it succeed, or does it crash and burn?
Sep 19, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Final Destination 3 (2006)
We continue our roller coaster ride through the Final Destination films, and we've reached the first truly post-9/11 entry in the series. How does that change things? If at all?
Aug 21, 2024•2 hr 8 min
Final Desintation 2 (2003)
Can the follow-up to the first "Final Destination" live up to our memories of it? Obviously, there's the famous highway sequence, but what about what comes after that? And what does it add to the mythology of the franchise?
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 58 min
Final Destination (2000)
It was Fate's plan that we watch all the Final Destination films, so we started in on the first entry of the series!
Jun 05, 2024•2 hr 2 min
308: Final Destination
Season 3 of Chucky is in the can, and the finale takes us to some wild places. The Spirit Realm! A flaming White House! John Waters' Doll Mansion! Did the journey satisfy? And what actual final destination did we reach?
May 05, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Season 3Ep. 8
307: There Will Be Blood
They promised that there would be blood, and there was! We wondered last week how the makers of "Chucky" could follow what seemed like an unfollowable episode, and, lo and behold, they did it.
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 7
306: Panic Room
After a streaming snafu, we're rolling into the sixth episode of Chucky's third season, which goes big! It honestly feels like a finale, so let's dig into this jam-packed episode!
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 6
305: Death Becomes Her
Chucky season 3 has come back from its hiatus, and it's confirming some things about the world that we weren't so sure about before! Also, the President has kind of totally lost it.
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dressed to Kill (1980)
We're finishing up our run of episodes about movies that episodes of "Chucky" are named after with this 1980 Brian De Palma thriller, which is often cited by Don Mancini as an influence! We try to figure out just how it influenced him despite being...very flawed by today's standards.
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Jennifer's Body (2009)
We're continuing to watch movies that episodes of "Chucky" are named after, and this time we're taking a bite out of the now cult-classic 2009 film "Jennifer's Body"! Critics hated it when it was released; which view of the film is more correct?
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Cape Fear (1991)
As we wait for Chucky Season 3 to start back up, we're checking out a movie we've been talking about watching since the first season: the 1991 remake of Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese!
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Living With Chucky (2022)
On this episode, we're talking about Kyra Gardner's 2022 documentary about being the daughter of the lead puppeteer on the Chucky series, Tony Gardner! Does it offer some new insights into the making of the Child's Play and Chucky series? We dig into it!
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 11 min
304: Dressed to Kill
In an unexpected midseason finale indicating a lengthy break, developments abound for both Tiffany and Chucky! Tiffany makes a new frenemy, and Chucky finishes his mission at the White House. Or does he?
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 4
303: Jennifer's Body
This week's episode connects the dots between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3. Just how campy and wild does it get? And who is this season's version of WWE Superstar Liv Morgan?
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 3
302: Let the Right One In
Jake, Lexy, and Devon make their way to the nation's capital this episode as a shadowy government agent arrives to help figure out who's killing people inside the White House. Something that happened made us very mad; can you guess what it is?
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 2
301: Murder at 1600
A new season of Chucky begins, and we're getting...political! What's it like finally having a Good Guy in the White House? We pound the pavement to get the answers.
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Just in time for season 3 of Chucky to begin, we're wrapping up the series of Annabelle movies! How do they finish out? Feeley Meeley through the show to find out!
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 59 min
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Can this prequel supersede our ill will toward the first Annabelle movie? And what the heck is the deal with the Warrens anyway? Those questions and more are answered on this episode.
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 47 min
Annabelle (2014)
The first Annabelle movie had by far the biggest box office take of any movie we've talked about on the show so far, but does that mean it's worth watching. The answer...might surprise you!
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Dolly Dearest (1991)
We dug deep (on YouTube) for this month's episode to find this very strange mix of Child's Play and The Exorcist from 1991 starring Denise Crosby (yes, Tasha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Rip Torn (yes, Rip Torn). Was this tomb worth excavating? Play with this!
May 29, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Dolls (1987)
This Stuart Gordon movie about creepy porcelain dolls at a house in the remote English countryside not only predates the first "Child's Play," but was also produced by Charles Band, who would go on to produce "Puppet Master"! So how does it hold up, and what influence may it have had?
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 33 min
M3GAN (2023)
We're dancing, because a new doll-based franchise begins! How did M3GAN get right what the failed Child's Play reboot attempt got wrong? And how are the two movies strangely similar? We look at it all as we run through the many delights of this new toyetic horror.
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 41 min
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