A vintage doll brings darkly comic chaos and suspenseful murders to a town exposing its deepest hypocrisies.
Campy, with dark satire. A late-night trip at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Prime Video and Peacock.
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: real scares and several jump scares.
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After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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