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MGM Press Release: Child's Play: Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition

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ANDY BARCLAY HAS A NEW PLAYMATE
WHO’S IN NO MOOD TO PLAY

CHILD’S PLAY
Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition


Original Cult Classic That Spawned The Evil Doll Franchise Returns To DVD September 9th >From MGM Home Entertainment

Featuring All New Material Including Commentary,
Vintage Behind-The-Scenes Footage And Four Exclusive Featurettes

CENTURY CITY, Calif. – Wanna play? Voodoo meets terror when film’s most un-likely horror icon returns in Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition arriving on DVD September 9th from MGM Home Entertainment. A stylish thriller that shook both audiences and the box office upon its release two decades ago, Child’s Play follows the aftermath of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who after being mortally wounded by police, barricades himself in a toy store and uses an ancient ritual to transfer his spirit into the must-have toy of the year. When young Andy Barclay gets the vexed doll as a birthday gift, bodies begin to pile up as Chucky devastates this once sleepy town. When everyone around Andy finally realizes his stories are true it’s too little too late. Chucky will stop at nothing as the soul of Charles Lee Ray wants a human body and Andy’s is it!

Directed by Tom Holland (Psycho 2, “The Langoliers”) and featuring character actor Brad Dourif (“Deadwood”) as the voice of Chucky, the film also stars Catherine Hicks (“7th Heaven”) and Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride). The Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition DVD contains all new special features such as select scene commentary by Chucky himself, all-new interviews, vintage featurettes and more. The Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition DVD will be available for $14.98 U.S. / $15.98 Canada. Prebook date is August 13th.

Synopsis
After six-year-old Andy Barclay’s (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that Chucky, his new birthday doll, did it until things start going terribly wrong… dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror that a deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being - young Andy.

Special Features
· Audio Commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and "Chucky" designer Kevin Yagher
· Audio Commentary with Producer David Kirschner and Screenwriter Don Mancini
· Select Scene Chucky Commentary
· “Evil Comes in Small Packages” Documentary
o The Birth of Chucky
o Creating the Horror
o Unleashed
· “Chucky: Building a Nightmare” Featurette
· “A Monster Convention” Featurette
· Vintage Featurette: “Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child’s Play”
· Theatrical Trailer
· Photo Gallery
· Trailer Farm


Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition
Order Due Date: August 13, 2008
Street Date: September 9, 2008
DVD Price: $14.98 U.S. / $15.98 Canada
Catalog Number: M111224
Total Run Time: 97 minutes
Screen Format: Widescreen
Audio Features: English Mono
Subtitles: English & Spanish
Closed Captioned: Yes
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Thanks for providing the press release, Ron. I am so ecstatic about this release! Hell, I've waited for a widescreen version of this ever since I started collecting DVDs, and flat out swore I would never own the fullscreen version. This film will be the highlight of this year's 'Halloween Movie Night'. Can't wait!

Old Woman - "Ugly Doll"
Chucky - "F**k you."

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Are we sure it's going to be anamorphic? Or just letterbox?
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How did this spawn Evil Dead? Did I miss something?
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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
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Screen Format: Widescreen
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Geez louise it's about time! I'll be picking this up for October as well.
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Audio Commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and "Chucky" designer Kevin Yagher

I'm curious to hear this commentary.
It's a shame this won't be blu-ray
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How did this spawn Evil Dead? Did I miss something?

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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
Original Cult Classic That Spawned The Evil Doll Franchise Returns To DVD September 9th From MGM Home Entertainment
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I heard that Axelmusic.com is sending this DVD already.
Are there any information whether it is a anamorphic Widescreen Transfer or a letterbox transfer?????
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I pre-ordered mine from DVD planet.

Hopefully it's a good transfer. Although I'll be thrilled it's in widescreen.
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Already have this pre-ordered. After nearly 10 years of collecting DVDs, I can finally add this to my collection. And I may even buy a couple of the sequels now, too (I didn't see much of a point in buying them without having the original).
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My thoughts exactly Scott. For years I thought about picking up the sequels, but they would've always seemed incomplete with the original, so I never bothered. I definitely plan to get them now. 16 more days!!!! I'm seriously excited about this release.
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I bought the sequels used for less than $9. I got that funky 3D packaging too! Hopefully none of them wil skip. Not worth that to save $6 or so. I remember liking most of those. I've never even seen SEEDS so this whole thing will be a treat like Friday the 13th the whole series was for me last year.
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