La bambola assassina

Peter Debruge

Something happened to horror movies in the 1980s, starting a few years earlier with films such as "Halloween" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre": The villains in brutally violent slasher movies became the heroes - or, at least, the characters audiences found themselves rooting for - which in turn created the opportunity for franchises, where these virtually unstoppable killing machines came back in sequel after sequel, like some kind of recurring nightmare, to wreak more havoc. Michael, Jason, Freddy Krueger loomed iconic in the cultural imagination, spawning a wave of imitators, of which the most surreal may well have been Chucky - a blue-eyed, battery-operated doll possessed, via voodoo curse, by the soul of a deranged psycho. [...]

di Peter Debruge, articolo completo (7423 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 20 giugno 2019