‘Child’s Play’ Creator Has An Idea For Chucky To Meet Freddy Krueger
Despite the many horror franchises that exist in cinema, crossovers between them in recent years have been few and far between. While Universal once had all of their monster movies like Frankenstein, Wolf Man and Dracula exist in the same universe (something the studio is failing horribly at recreating today), the only major franchise crossovers have beenFreddy vs JasonandAlien vs Predator. Here’s a shoutout toPuppet Master vs Demonic Toys, just for existing. But the creator ofChild’s Playwants to make one happen with everyone’s favorite serial killer doll meeting the master of haunting your dreams.
Don Mancinihas kept theChild’s Playfranchise alive somehow by making it crazier with the likes ofBride of Chucky, Seed of Chuckyand thedirect-to-video releaseCult of Chucky. Ideally, he’d like to see the murderous Good Guy doll meet up with Freddy Krueger fromA Nightmare on Elm Street, and he has a whole idea of how it would work.
Find out about about Don Mancini’s Chucky vs Freddy idea below.
Speaking on theNecronomicastrecently (viaBloody Disgusting), here’s what Don Mancini had to say about the potential for Chucky vs Freddy, an idea he’s discussed intermittently over the years:
“I’ve talked about this a lot over the years and it’s actually an idea that I think is cool and doable. It’s just… it would require arranging all the legal red tape between two different studios. But I think Chucky versus Freddy would be awesome. Because they both have distinct personalities, and they both talk, they would be a really fun double act.
“My idea for the movie is to do it as a horror movie version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It’s called Child’s Play on Elm Street. Chucky ends up in the bedroom of a house on Elm Street. And Freddy meets him there. And they’re, like, fans of each other. So they have this rapport. But then they realize Elm Street isn’t big enough for the two of them. It only can contain one killer.”
That sounds like it just might be crazy enough to work. Both Chucky and Freddy have this darkly playful side to them, always cracking jokes while killing their latest victim. Seeing two characters like that competing to be the dominant force on Elm Street could be rather entertaining. Freddy Krueger would ultimately have to be the winner though, right? What’s Elm Street without the Springwood Slasher?
Of course, as Mancini says, there would need to be some legal red tape dealt with in order for the two distributors behindChild’s PlayandA Nightmare on Elm Streetmovies (Universal and New Line respectively) to have a crossover, and that’s probably not in the cards. At the very least we can imagine what this match-up would be like,
