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Chucky, “Your Best Friend”

September 23, 2014 By Camilla Henneman

When I tell people I worked on the Chucky puppet for Childs Play, I get one of two reactions.  Either the person takes a physical step back away from me, their face darkens, and they mumble something like “I hate that movie and everything in it!” or….their face lights up, they squeal with delight, and […]

Filed Under: Film & Television, Fun Facts/History Tagged With: Allan Coulter, animatronics, Brad Dourif, Brock Winkless, Charles Lee Ray, Childs Play, Chris Sarandon, Chucky, costume, Dave Nelson, David Kirshner, dolls, Ed Gale, horror film, Howard Berger, Kevin Yeagher, Loren Soman, Marc Tyler, Martha Trujillo, possessed, puppets, Steve James, Steve Sleap, Tim Lawrence, William Bryan

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