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Why can't Chucky bleed anymore?


That really needs an explanation. Especially the fact how he's able to put back on his decapitated head after that's how he died in the last movie.

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So many plot holes with this movie, like how Chucky thinks he can transfer his soul inside Alice without the amulet that he needed in Bride and Seed due to him being in the body for too long, and it's clear he's in the same body he was in in those movies. Don Mancini need to get it together.

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To be fair, he didn't transfer his soul into Alice. It clearly didn't work, based on the after credits scene with Andy

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Well, we don't know for sure, because the Andy scene took place after the Alice scene. I think Chucky transferred his soul into Alice's body, and Alice's soul went into her dead grandma.

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Um that wouldn't be the case. If Chucky transferred his soul into Alice then Alice's soul would transfer into the doll. It wouldn't make sense for her to just transfer into some one else's body other than the one that is being inhabited by some one else trying to take her body.

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Well we don't know what exactly happened. I'd like to assume it didn't works since the grandmother pops up and could have stopped Chucky, but for all we know Chucky could have switched for a moment but later on Alice gets her body back. But I doubt Don is going to have the next movie be Chucky in Alice's body so it's safe to assume it didn't work. However, I'm just saying it's foolish for Chucky to say the chant without the amulet considering he's been in that particular doll body for a long time to just say the chant like that and think he can accomplish switching bodies here.

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This is just a theory, but I think it has something to do with the Heart of Damballa amulet. Maybe Chucky found some new ways to suspend his mortal changes through the amulet.

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If that's the case then it would help to actually SEE this so it all doesn't come off as a plot hole. Just looking at the movie the way it is, it's a plot hole Chucky doesn't have the amulet as nothing is given to us that he's able to transfer his soul without it even after being in the doll for so long.

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The amulet in a sense, is Chucky's personal voodoo Game Genie. He probably wasn't too dependent on it in this movie, and just relied on his own soul transferring skills from Child's Play 1-3. But that's not to say he might have learned some new spells from the amulet before he came to Nica's house; to bend or bypass the usual rules so he could remain in non mortal doll mode without being trapped. Maybe in the next sequel this might be touched upon, and it could be made to light that Chucky is now unkillable thanks to the amulet.

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This is just another example of Don's constant errors in the franchise. I doubt he'll explain around that in the next movie. He doesn't really pay attention to things and just ruins the continuity completely. Allow me to share with you some of these things:

1. The first would be Child's Play 3's setting. This affects the time settings of CP1 and CP2 and Bride. You see, while those two movies are made and released two years apart, it doesn't come off as the settings being two years apart. Mr. Sullivan and his assistant talk about the aftermath of the first movie as though it happened a short while ago and Andy comes off being in foster care for a short while before going to the Simpsons, not some two years. Nothing in CP2 states that it's even two years later so given those two points it's very implied we're looking at less than a one year gap between the films. We only get the two year gap now due to Part 3. Dialogue in the scene after the CP3 credits references the first movie happening EIGHT YEARS earlier, back to when the whole Chucky thing started, not eight years after CP2. Perhaps they meant to say ten years since we have Andy being sixteen instead of fourteen as he was six in the first movie. But the EIGHT YEARS thing would be more fitting as the ten year gap affects the timeline of Bride. Bride takes place in mid-1998. CP3 also takes place in 1998 but couldn't be before mid-way in the year. CP1 was set in the November of 1988 (established by Bride) and Andy is sixteen by CP3 which means the setting of CP3 would have to be past November 1998. But Bride has to come after that and it's not set during the winter time. Could we place it in 1999? Nope, because Seed of Chucky, which takes place in 2004, references Bride happening SIX YEARS before, which would be 1998, the year the movie came out in. Had CP3 stuck with it's eight year gap and had Andy at age 14, the movie would have been set in the end of 1996 and early 1997, and then Bride's 1998 setting wouldn't be affected.

2. Chucky's "Made in Japan" tattoo as displayed in Seed. This totally ruins everything as Chucky was made in a factory in Chicago, so how could he have this? Don didn't pat attention here and forgot details in his own movie! We have to get around this by saying that it's not his actual arm as Tiffany does replace his left arm in Bride with a random doll arm and this is the arm the tattoo is on. But then, how the hell does Glen know how to speak Japanese and even learn some karate moves? It would make sense if Chucky's doll body was made in Japan. ERROR.

3. The whole thing with Nica's mother being tied up by Chucky makes no sense. How did she get around to calling the police when she was tied up on the bed?

So yeah, this whole thing with the soul transfer is another one of Don's big mistakes and shows how little he plays attention to the series and not thinking things through all the way.

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1. At the beginning of Bride, the damage that Chucky took from that giant fan at the carnival, from the end of the previous film looks less severe. We see him get chopped to hundreds of pieces, yet in Bride he looks just like the damaged Tommy doll from the second film, but with stitches on his face and body/clothes. He would have to be in a different doll body, in order to be brought back properly, though with the same "Good Guy" clothes.

2. I agree with the setting between the second, third, and fourth films not making any sense. Why would it take 2 years to recover a burnt doll from an apartment? The second film should've been set, around November 1989-January 1990, instead of November 1990. Then in the beginning of the third film, they don't make it clear if the 8 year gap is referring to the original 1988 murders or the ones from 1990. Then you have the messed up seasonal setting in the 4th one where in the 3rd film, it looks like its November, but the 4th film (supposedly set only one month after the 3rd one) has a spring setting, making it look like it takes place around April or May, instead of December, as there are no Christmas decorations or snow; the latter of which, the first and third films had. So by that logic, CP3 takes place in November-December 1998 and Bride takes place in April-May 1999 and Seed takes place in 2004 or 2005. The climax to Seed is set 5 years later, after the majority of most of the film, setting it around 2009-2010, and Curse is set about 3-4 years later. At least the timeline isn't screwed up that badly, like it is in the Halloween and Friday The 13th films. Now those films were a mess, in which each sequel got even more and more confusing.

3. The whole amulet thing has an issue; in the first film, he should've held the amulet, unless by some chance he remembered the chant of it, from his mentor, John. Not only that, but between Bride and Seed, the chant becomes shorter and the word "awake" is used. In the first 3-4 films, it was a long chant, in French; a huge plothole in Bride, but way, way, way more so in Seed.

I guess Don is better off as writer than a director. I think he should've got someone to direct this, while still being a writer, like he was in the first four films.

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After Nica stabs him in the back, there is blood on the knife. So he might still be able to bleed, just not everywhere.

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