Fox Home Entertainment has announced a Blu-ray release of Child’s Play for September 15th. DVD Active reports that the film itself will be presented in widescreen format, along with English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio. Extras will include commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and “Chucky” designer Kevin Yagher, a second commentary with Producer David Kirschner and Screenwriter Don Mancini, Select Scene Chucky Commentaries, featurettes (”The Advantages of Being Chucky”, “Chucky on Filmmaking”, “Up Close and Personal with Chucky”, “Evil Comes in Small Packages”, “The Birth of Chucky”, “Creating the Horror”, “Unleashed – Chucky: Building a Nightmare”, “A Monster Convention”, “Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child’s Play”, “Chucky’s Back Bitches”, “Designer Toy”, “Evil Comes in Little Packages”), and a copy of the standard-def DVD.

It goes without saying that I’m really excited about this news. Not only are we finally getting a Chucky release on Blu-ray disc, but it appears that they’re actually ADDING MORE features to the disc than what appeared on the Chucky’s 20th Birthday DVD last year. Now I’ll finally have a better high-def version of Child’s Play than the 1080i made-for-TV print that’s been floating around for the past few years. The box art for the Blu-ray disc is located below, also courtesy of the awesome horror news website Bloody-Disgusting.com:

Now that MGM is releasing the original Child’s Play, all we need is for Universal to get off their asses and release the rest of the Child’s Play movies. My Seed of Chucky HD DVD is lonely sitting by itself on my movie shelf.

Source: Bloody-Disgusting

Anyhow, we’re still working on the forum’s layout. It’s about 50% done. HK added some features back to the forums, such as avatars and our old Chucky emoticons I made back in 05′. Ah, those were the days. I still miss the old forum layout, but I hope you all enjoy the new one, as well as the main site!

In other news, back in August I went to FanExpo in Toronto and met up with Brad Dourif. He told me in his own words that he WILL be voicing Chucky in the remake, as well as playing the live role of Charles Lee Ray. I totally know he can still pull it off. Brad’s awesome like that. So it’s confirmed, and he seemed really pleased about it!

So any thoughts about the new layout? Or about Brad’s Role?

Today we scored a look at the DVD cover art for Child’s Play 20th Birthday Edition, which arrives in stores September 9 – no Blu-ray (boo!). 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
*The Birth of Chucky

*Creating the Horror 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

Source: Bloody-Disgusting

UPDATE: Thanks to forum member AndyFan, here’s a link with an even bigger version of the cover art over at Shock Till You Drop.

I’ve spent today doing MAJOR maintenance on the website, in case you haven’t noticed.

Chuckyholics.com is now running on an entirely new codebase, and after a day of programming on it, all user accounts should be converted to the new system.

What are the perks of this? Well, for one thing, we’re on a much more stable, and faster architecture now. Also, we should be able to keep spammers out easier, allowing legit users to register faster and join the community.

Of course, my favorite feature is that there is NO MORE DUAL REGISTRATION! Regardless of whether you register on the main site or the forums, that account will be able to access both areas. ONE ACCOUNT TO RULE THEM ALL! For those of you who previously had accounts on both areas, your forum account is now the only account you need to access the whole site.

The drawback to doing all these upgrades is that I don’t have a new theme yet, so everything’s pretty much the default for now. Don’t let this drive you away though, we’ll have the new design working soon. I just need to find a good web designer to do it, since I’m a lousy designer. I can handle the programming side as long as I don’t have to make it look pretty.

In the meantime, enjoy the site, and if you have any problems, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible by e-mailing me at HonkeyKong (at) Chuckyholics (dot) com

– Commentary track with creator/writer Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner.
– A second track with FX guru Kevin Yagher, Catherine Hicks (Kevin’s wife; they met on the film), and now-grown-up Alex Vincent.
– A third track with Mancini and Chucky (Brad Dourif voicing in character).
– The film itself is presented in the long overdue 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen.
– Making-of documentary blending archival footage with new, on-camera interviews with Mancini, Kirschner, Yagher, Hicks, Vincent, Chris Sarandon, John Lafia and Brad Dourif.

I hope you’re all as excited as I am about this news! I can’t wait to hear the commentary track with Chucky! That should make for some serious entertainment.

Source: Bloody-Disgusting

According to an interview on Shock Till You Drop, David Kirschner is still on-board as producer, and he discusses some of his reasons for wanting to remake the movie after 20 years. Personally, I think the original is just fine the way it is, but as long as they can at least keep some things right, a remake could be very entertaining.

For those of you who are concerned (as I was) that Chucky will become another computer-animated abortion, have no fear. David Kirschner has already stated, "It'll be an animatronic doll, like we do all of them, but animatronics have grown from when we did the first one 20 years ago.".

That's a sigh of relief from me. There are some things that can't replace good old-fashioned puppetry, and Chucky is one of them. The animatronics helped make him seem more realistic, as if a walking, talking killer doll could ever be realistic.

Also, he says that he's still uncertain about whether or not Brad Dourif will return to voice Chucky, but this is another issue that I think should not change. Brad Dourif *IS* Chucky, and it just wouldn't be right hearing another voice coming out of that doll's mouth. Stop thinking about it, and just call Brad and ask him to do the damn voice, already! He's stated several times that he loves playing Chucky, so it's not like he's going to say no.

Anyway, please don't shoot the messenger, I'm just reporting this because it's my duty in running a Chucky fan community. As usual, any and all discussion about the franchise or the upcoming remake is welcome in our forum.

–Honkey Kong

Hit the "Read More" link for more info and images!

LINK: ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS: SEELEY TALKS "HACK/SLASH VS. CHUCKY"

Written by Brian Pulido, art by Josh Medors, cover by Ryan Ottley.

32 pages, $3.50. Here's a little taste of the pages from the comic!

Well it looks as if Chucky's hitting the merchandising waves BIG TIME lately! All the Chuckster fans of the world are being treated to, what seems like WAY BETTER merchandise than ever before!! Click on “Read More” to find out about all this cool new shit!

Just what the Good Guy doctor ordered: The most kick-ass line of dolls ever AND a new comic!!

This was taken from the Newsarama Forums:

Something has moved in with Devil’s Due Publishing, Inc., and that something is terror! The ink is dry on a licensing agreement between Devil’s Due and Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, sealing the deal to resurrect horror icon Chucky and bring the killer doll to comic books.

The 1988 feature film Child’s Play garnered an immense cult following, spawned many sequels, and now becomes a terrifying new comic book. Wounded by police, “Lakeshore Strangler” Charles Lee Ray stumbled into a toy store. Just before his death, the serial killer used voodoo to transfer his soul into a Play Pals “Good Guy” doll. When the doll was brought home as a child’s birthday gift, horror ensued, and hasn’t stopped since. 

 “In light of a popular resurgence of both horror movies and, more recently, horror comics, we thought fans might be ready for more Chucky,” says DDP President Joshua Blaylock. “Devil’s Due’s infatuation with the horror genre isn’t a new one; the breakout cult success of Tim Seeley’s HACK/SLASH sparked more than enough interest to follow up with horror/occult themed LOST SQUAD, BLACK HARVEST, and NIGHTWOLF, as well as a brief revival of the dormant Chaos Comics ghouls. We’re excited as can be to bring Chucky to comics. Coming up with ideas for the character is ‘child’s play’.”

Devil’s Due: Reminding everyone that pop culture IS our culture.

So there you have it! Look out for Chucky comics in stores near you! And NOW onto the dolls!!!

 How freaking awesome is it that all these great dolls are suddenly popping up? Spencer's Toys, Medicom, Neca and Sideshow Toys are all srouting Chucky spwans of different sizes! Let's take a look at what we have in store!

 NECA Action Figures and Dolls:

NECA is going freakin' hogwild to bring you the BEST Chucky dolls you can find! And finally somebody made a decent looking Good Guys doll that can be sold in places other than Japan! They already came out with a 12 inch and 6 inch action figure (and some of the 12 inch action figures talk in the Child's Play 3 line!), and soon to hit the market are the Good Guy Doll lifesize replica, and the Chucky family boxset!!! Talk about treating us to the goods! Let's see what's next:

SPENCER'S New Animated Talking Chucky Doll!!!

It can't get any better than this! A Bride of Chucky animated talking doll! Chucky says a whole bunch of phraises, his eyes look around, he moves his mouth as he talks and his head jerks around to look everywhere. These can be found in any Spencers store, or you can go online and find him on Ebay, too.

 MEDICOM Chucky Merch!

Medicom is a Japanese toy company that makes a whole load of amazing Chucky stuff! They have two different life-sized Good Guys dolls, as well as a lifesize Chucky, Chucky Bobble Head Banks, 12 Inch Figurines, KeyChains, Kubrick Good Guy Figurines and so on and so forth! If you want to shop online for these, just search “Medicom Chucky/Good Guy” through Ebay and good luck! The prices don't come cheap I'm afraid, because they are so overseas and don't ship out here through any online stores (other than Ebay)

SIDE SHOW TOYS figurines!

I've already mentioned about these babies in an older post, and I would still say GET THEM if you already haven't broke the bank with all those other Chucky treats being thrown your way. These figurines are so fucking phenominal and so well sculpted, I would get them eventually like everything else…save your pennies or get your damn friends and/or relatives to get you them for Christmas!