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Wednesday, October 28, 1998
"Chucky" grows up Film Festival comes to Portland
ANGIE DASCHEL
Staff Writer
Sex, drugs and rock & roll
are the key elements in the
fourth installment of the
“Child’s Play” horror movies,
“Bride of Chucky.” The film
is more of a comedy rather than
a slasher, in that while a few
people get killed, the plot cen
ters more around Chucky get
ting lucky.
For those who have never seen
the “Child’s Play” series, Chucky
is a doll who has been inhabited
by the spirit of a serial killer. The
killer was named Charles Lee
Ray, and in the first movie he was
shot by a cop in a toy store, where
he used voodoo to transport him
self into the Chucky doll. In the
other movies he was always
“killed” (in horror movie land,
that means that he was disposed
of in such a way that he could
easily be brought back for a se
quel).
In “Bride Of Chucky,” Jenni
fer Tilly (“Liar Liar”) plays Tif
fany, who was the girlfriend of
Charles Lee Ray before he was
shot and turned into a doll. Like
Chucky, Tiffany has homicidal
tendencies. Tiffany gets a cop to
retrieve Chucky’s mangled body
from the police station. She sews
him up, then uses a voodoo in
cantation to bring him back to
life. Tiffany realizes soon after
Chucky is alive that he is not ex
actly the best boyfriend, so she
shuts him up in a baby crib. To
torture him, Tiffany buys a doll
in a wedding gown to be his girl
friend. Chucky escapes and kills
Tiffany, only to use voodoo to
bring the bride doll to life with
Tiffany’s spirit. Now that they
are on the same level, the real fun
begins.
Chucky and Tiffany set out on
a road trip with some teenagers
who are getting married and es
caping from their restrictive
families.
John
Ritter
(“Slingblade”) plays the girl’s
uncle, whom Chucky quickly dis
poses of. Their stop at a
honeymooner’s hotel delivers the
biggest laughs of the film because
the dolls consummate their rela
tionship. The soundtrack is
mostly contributed by buttrocker
Rob Zombie (White Zombie) and
gives the moviegoers the feel of
being in a biker bar.
If the film was trying to be hor
ror, then it failed miserably be
cause not enough people were
killed, the-death scenes were
funny, not scary, and last but not
least, the dolls get it on. But if
“Bride of Chucky” was striving
for comedy, they got it right. The
dolls crack wise about everything
and seem to kill only to turn each
other on. This is a film for people
wanting to laugh, and also for
those who don’t mind watching
dolls turn into pom stars.
Event features a plethora of Northwest talent
terrorist group. Les wants rec movie is funny and the dialogue
ognition for the deed, but he also is true to life.
wants to get away with it.
What makes “Kitchen Party”
When his aloof wife asks why so absorbing is that it accurately
The 25th Northwest Film and he did it, he has no answer. Les depicts the way kids act in so
Video Festival is a showcase of cannot explain his actions to her cial situations.
independent films and shorts because he has no idea
The director, Gary
from five Northwest states and why he did it. He
Burns, said he was “inter
spends the entire
British Columbia.
ested in showing awk
Over 300 works were submit movie trying to decide
wardness, naivete, mean-
ted to festival judge Christine what to do with the Party" is]
spiritedness, callousness,
Vachon; only 28 were selected. painting and whether
follower
mentality, but
an open-
Two of the films being shown are to keep it or not.
also the possibility of em
“Carried Away” and “Kitchen
“Kitchen Party” is a ended
pathy and insight. It’s an
Party.”
“Dazed and Confused” narrative of
open-ended narrative of
“Carried Away” is about a man type of movie set in the
observations that doesn’t
named Les Martin who finds 90’s. Scott Smith de observations
provide answers.”
himself sitting at a museum star cides to throw a party that doesn’t
The two films will be
ing at Vermeer painting entitled while his parents are
shown during the festival,
provide
“Girl Standing at an Open Win away having dinner at
which is held at the Guild
dow.”
a friend’s house. The answers.
Theater, located at S.W.
He is so taken with the paint party has got to be con
9th and Taylor.
ing that before he even realizes fined to the kitchen,
The festival runs Novem
what he is doing, he grabs the however,
because
ber
5-12 and admission is
Gary Burns
masterpiece and flees the mu Scott’s mom doesn’t Film Director
$6 general, $5 members,
seum. He doesn’t get caught, and allow anyone, not even
students, and seniors, and
the media blames the theft on a Scott or his pot-head
$30 for a festival pass (valid
brother Steve, to be in
for all Festival programs ex
the upstairs living room when cept opening night).
they aren’t home.
There is a full schedule and
How could she tell if someone more information about the fes
was in the living room? She tival and the Northwest Film
"Urban Legend"
vacuums the carpet in a diago Center at www.nwfilm.org.
This "Scream" clone is full of
nal pattern so that even the
blood and guts but doesn't really
slightest disturbance would be
scare.
detected. When the liquor starts
to flow at both the parents’ and
"A Night at the Roxbury"
the kids’ parties, so do the prob
A funny adaptation of the
lems.
"Saturday Night Live" skit that
“Kitchen Party’ is an honest
doesn't require jthe viewer to
look at suburban life and how
think, but works anyway.
kids and parents today handle
common predicaments. The
ANGIE DASCHEL
Staff Writer
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