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"That stuff just makes your subconscious tingle..."
The filmmaker's original intentions weren't just based on his personal preferences of seeing someone electrocuted as opposed to plummeting to their death, but due to his own visual tastes.
"I think one of the cool things, to me, about horror movies, or at least the horror movies that I like, when you have imagery that suggests something going on before, or even rather than, showing the event too explicitly," Mancini confessed. "Having someone electrocuted, the act of their being electrocuted is less interesting to me than the bubbles lofting through the room, and seeing Chucky sort of mesmerized by the bubbles."
"That stuff just makes your subconscious tingle, and I like doing stuff like that," he added.
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Based on his remarks, the filmmaker seems much more focused on the future than on the past when it comes to Chucky.
"I've made little course adjustments, I have done that a couple of times," Mancini noted. "I do have...I don't know if it's correct to call them long range plans, because it's much more fluid. You can't plan everything out, but I am always thinking, and one of the nice things about having a franchise is that if certain ideas, or scenes, or characters, or whatever, if they don't, ultimately, make their way into the film you're doing at that time, you can just file it away, and think, 'Okay, well that might be more appropriate in a future installment,' because it's an interesting idea."
With the series still going strong after 30 years, it's safe to say the franchise isn't going away anytime soon.
Cult of Chucky lands on unrated Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital platforms on October 3.
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