In every way that counts except physically, Chucky is one of the biggest slasher movie villains ever.
Kirschner read Mancini’s script and sensed its potential — but also felt Chucky as “an expression of the kid’s unconscious rage” wasn’t quite the right hook.
He snagged the rights to Mancini’s script, added the serial killer spirit to Chucky, and the rest is movie history — and television history once the Child’s Play TV series arrives on screens in the near future.
In our extremely mathematical assessment of the deadliest slashers ever, Chucky beat out Leatherface and had nearly as many kills as Freddy Krueger across a series that has already spanned seven films.