Before the dawn of reason, everyone knew the world was filled with magic and mystery. Today, most adults use words like superstition, delusion and fantasy to describe what they can't understand. But children are not yet blinded by logic and reason.

For his 6th birthday, Andy Barclay got a harmless looking doll named Chucky. Andy knows Chucky is alive. Of course thats not logical and no-one will believe him. Logic is exactly what Chucky is counting on, because it blinds people to the supernatural. Chucky's power is supernatural and his soul is pure evil.

A master of the metaphysical art of soul transference, Charles (Chucky) Lee Ray cannot be destroyed. He hides where you'd least expect to find him. Innocence is his victim and his tool. Ignorance is his weapon. Murder is his pleasure. Chucky fears only one thing on heaven or earth...that he will die without a suitable body nearby.

'Child's Play' is a chilling thriller about a diabolical killer, who by inhabiting an innocent looking doll, traps a mother and child in his web of terror and murder.

Catherine Hicks ("Star Trek IV", "Peggy Sue Got Married") and Chris Sarandon ("Dog Day Afternoon", "Fright Night") topline an outstanding cast which includes Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Tommy Swerdlow and Jack Colvin. Making his film debut is 6 year old Alex Vincent.

A United Artists Pictures production, "Child's Play" was directed by Tom Holland ("Fright Night") from a screenplay by Don Mancini, John Lafia and Holland and story by Mancini.

Psychotic mass murderer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) is on the run through the streets of Chicago with Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) and his partner Jack Santos (Tommy Swerdlow) seconds behind. Abandoned by his accomplice Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntol) and wounded, Ray bolts into a closed toy store where Mike fires a fatal shot. Clutching a Good Guy doll and swearing revenge, Ray intones a mysterious chant as an ominus storm rages outside. When Ray dies, the store explodes.

In a modest Chicago apartment, Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) is watching an early morning cartoon show advertising a talking Good Guy doll. Hopefully, the boy eyes a package his mother has wrapped for his 6th birthday. Its just the right size. When Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) sees the disappointed look in her sons eyes as he opens the package and finds clothing, her heart breaks. Later that day, she discovers a street pedler (Juan Ramirez) selling a Good Guy doll in a slightly damaged box at an affordable price. Andy is thrilled when his doll announces that his name is Chucky and he'll be Andy's best friend 'til the end.

That evening while Karens friend Maggie (Dinah Manoff) is babysitting for Andy, she thinks he has disobeyed her. The boy explains his doll was the one who disobeyed. After Andy is in bed, Maggie becomes rattled by mysterious noises in the apartment. When she goes to investigate she is struck in the head by Andy's toy hammer and crashes through the 6th floor window to her death. karen arrives to discover that not only her friend is dead but Mike, who is leading the investigation, suspects her son. Circumstantial evidence points to the child, and he was the only one in the apartment. Andy tells them Chucky left the evidence and later tells his mother Chucky's name is Charles Lee Ray. Of course, no-one believes him.

The next day, Andy cuts school with Chucky and takes the train to skid row. Andy puts Chucky down outside a run down house, and the doll disappears. Inside the house, Eddie Caputo is startled awake by sounds. A small hand opens the oven and the pilot light is blown out. Eddie opens the kitchen door and fires his gun. Instantly, Eddie's hise-out is blown up. At the police station, Karen discovers from Mike that Andy was found at the scene of yet another murder. he is being held for psychiatric evaluation by Dr Ardmore (Jack Colvin). Karen pleads with Andy to tell the truth, and the child tells them Chucky is alive. Armore has heard enough to convince him that Andy needs to be held for observation in a locked hospital ward. Andy is terrified. he has revealed the doll's secret and Chucky will kill him.

Returning home, Karen is horrified when she notices the doll's batteries were never installed. He IS alive. Chucky viciously attacks her and runs away. Karen tells Mike, who doesn't believe her, and tracks down the peddler who sold her the doll. Mike follows her and discovers the doll was from the burned-out toy store. the same store in which Charles Lee Ray dies. Mike's still skeptical until Chucky attacks him repeatedly with a knife as the detectives car careens through the city and crashes. Managing to pull a gun, Mike wounds Chucky, who runs away. mike and Karen meet in Rays apartment where they discover the psychopath was a student of voodoo. They rush to the apartment of Rays instructor, a voodoo priest called Dr Death (Raymond Oliver). Chucky gets to him first and uses voodoo to torture the priest into revealing the way in which Chucky can take over another body...Andy's. Chucky delivers a mortal wound to Dr Death bu, before he dies, he is able to warn Karen and Mike.

Chucky stalks Andy through the mental hospital and kills Dr Ardmore with a dose of his own medicine, but Andy manages to excape to his apartment. Chucky arrives soon afterward and Andy fights off the doll as best he can. But, as Karen and Mike approach her apartment building, the ominus clouds have gathered...the incantation has begun...