Just six days before Halloween is when the world celebrates the murderous doll from the Child’s Play horror movies – the first of which came out in theatres on 9 November 1988. For the heathens ...

Creepy dolls coming to life is a classic horror movie trope, but where did the idea originate? When you think "demon doll," Chucky from "Child's Play" springs to mind, but what was the ur-Chucky?

Aside from several flashbacks in the television show, the Chucky story begins with the original 1988 Child's Play. Serial killer Charles Lee Ray transfers his soul into the body of a doll to escape ...

Carolyn Jenkins has devoted her professional career to the entertainment industry. After undergraduate and graduate degrees and working as a production assistant, she started writing about the many ...