All the Reasons We Need Chucky Season 4

With today’s quality that Reginald the Vampire has been cancelled aft 2 seasons astatine Syfy, the fearfulness hive caput instantly shared 1 thought: what astir that other Syfy fearfulness comedy? You know, the 1 starring 1 of the genre’s shortest (yet most-feared) and most-merchandized villains? As of now, there’s nary connection yet connected a play four, Chucky fans.

As Deadline reports, Reginald the Vampire—starring Spider-Man sidekick Jacob Batalon arsenic a misfit bloodsucker—won’t beryllium returning, further shaking things up astatine Syfy, wherever Alan Tudyk’s fan-beloved Resident Alien conscionable shifted from Syfy to USA for its upcoming 4th season. Syfy will spot the instrumentality of different fearfulness comedy—SurrealEstate, a Canadian co-production, for a 3rd season—and it has a fearfulness enigma bid called Revival, a comic publication adaptation, connected the way. But a 4th play of Chucky, a co-production of Syfy and USA, “is inactive TBD,” according to the trade.

While nary amusement since Supernatural ended tin ever presume it’ll beryllium returning play aft season, Chucky feels similar a no-brainer connected a fewer important levels. The reviews person been coagulated (season 3 presently has a 100% affirmative people on Rotten Tomatoes), and the amusement has a built-in entreaty based connected Chucky’s presumption arsenic a fearfulness icon going backmost astir 4 decades. But adjacent much importantly perhaps, the amusement is simply a standout illustration of a movie franchise being expanded into a series; implicit 4 seasons, creator Don Mancini has done an admirable occupation incorporating acquainted Chucky characters from the movie bid (including Jennifer Tilly arsenic a bonkers mentation of “Jennifer Tilly, possessed by Tiffany the slayer doll,” arsenic good arsenic erstwhile kid histrion Alex Vincent, reprising his relation from the 1988 Child’s Play) with caller characters, including a trio of precocious schoolhouse kids who go Chucky’s next-generation nemeses.

Season three, which unfurled successful 2 sections acknowledgment to the 2023 Hollywood strikes, besides added a timely bent to its accustomed blend of campy humor, refreshingly well-integrated queer themes, and gleeful gore; we saw Chucky (voiced by movie stalwart Brad Dourif) infiltrate the White House by mode of the First Family itself. Sure, it was portion of a hopeless strategy to re-set the sinister spell that gives him immortal life, but it was inactive a clever mode to pat into America’s increasing unease astir the upcoming election. Season 3 besides ended connected a hellhole of a cliffhanger—trapping Chucky’s teenage foes successful doll bodies—as good arsenic what felt similar a caller commencement for Chucky and Tiffany, but with plentifulness of dangling threads (what astir their kid, GiGi?) near to explore.

If the worst happens, and Syfy and USA determine there’s nary much country for Chucky, fearfulness fans cognize Mancini won’t fto his prima quality languish connected the support for long. Speaking to io9 earlier this year, the fearfulness creator (who’s famously nary instrumentality of the in-name-only 2019 Child’s Play movie) shared a tiny spot astir his hopes for Chucky’s big-screen return. “It’s similar precise aboriginal days of of talks, but it’s an exciting, breathtaking enterprise,” helium said. “I anticipation we’re going to get different play of the amusement arsenic good [as a caller movie]. I mean, I deliberation some tin hap and they tin some coexist successful there. My program is to person it each marque consciousness successful presumption of the continuity and the wide mythology of the satellite we’re building; we won’t contradict anything.”

Are you hoping for much Chucky? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

Want much io9 news? Check retired erstwhile to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s adjacent for the DC Universe connected movie and TV, and everything you request to cognize astir the aboriginal of Doctor Who.