Expanse Actress Joins Cult Of Chucky

Canadian actress Grace Lynn Kung has joined the Cult of Chucky cast, which is the seventh film in the Child's Play thriller franchise.

According to Coming Soon, Kung will portray "hard-edged Claire."

Kung recently received an ACTRA-nomination for Outstanding Performance in The Death (and Life) of Carl Naardlinger. She also recently appeared in Miss Sloane, and has made guest appearances on the television series 12 Monkeys and The Strain. You'll soon see her in The Expanse and six-part event series Mary Kills People.

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic "tool" to facilitate his patients' group sessions — an all-too-familiar "Good Guy" doll with an innocently smiling face — a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn't crazy after all. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky's now-grown-up nemesis from the original Child's Play, races to Nica's aid. But to save her he'll have to get past Tiffany (Oscar®-nominee Jennifer Tilly), Chucky's long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved devil doll.

MORE: Cult of Chucky Trailer Relives the Classic Kills / Chucky 7 Production Has Officially Started / Chucky Doll Announced By Mezco Toyz / Chucky 7 Teased By Don Mancini & Jennifer Tilly / Chucky 7 Script In The Works From Don Mancini / Chucky Creator Wants Chucky To Team Up With Annabelle / Tim Burton Wanted Voice Of Chucky As Joker In Original Batman Movie

Fiona Dourif (Curse of Chucky) returns as Nica, the wheelchair-bound heroine framed by Chucky for the bloody murders of her entire family. She's joined by franchise veterans Alex Vincent (Child's Play, Child's Play 2) and Jennifer Tilly (Monsters, Inc., Bride of Chucky), with Brad Dourif (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) once again providing the eerie, unnerving voice of the demon doll possessed by the spirit of a maniacal serial killer.

Don Mancini, writer of the Child's Play franchise, is the executive producer of the new film, which he also directs from his original script. Longtime franchise producer David Kirschner (The Pagemaster, Frailty) is joined this time by Ogden Gavanski (Warm Bodies, Immortals).

Cult of Chucky will be released in a bone-chilling Unrated Version on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD in fall 2017 — just in time for Halloween.