All the Reasons We NeedChuckySeason 4

With today ’s newsworthiness thatReginald the Vampirehas been cancelled after two seasons at Syfy , the horror hive mind immediately apportion one thought : what aboutthatotherSyfy repugnance comedy ? You love , the onestarring one of the genre ’s shortest ( yet most - feared)andmost - merchandizedvillains ? As of now , there ’s no word yet on a season four , Chuckyfans .

AsDeadlinereports , Reginald the Vampire — starringSpider - Mansidekick Jacob Batalon as a misfit bloodsucker — won’t be render , further shaking thing up at Syfy , where Alan Tudyk ’s rooter - belovedResident Alienjust shifted from Syfy to USA for its upcoming fourth season . Syfywillsee the return of another revulsion comedy — SurrealEstate , a Canadian Colorado - production , for a third season — and it has a horror mystery serial publication calledRevival , a comic playscript adaptation , on the way . But a 4th season ofChucky , a co - yield of Syfy and USA , “ is still TBD , ” accord to the trade .

While no show sinceSupernaturalendedcan ever take it ’ll be returning time of year after time of year , Chuckyfeels like a no - brainer on a few important levels . The reviews have been satisfying ( season three currently has a 100 % positive scoreon Rotten Tomatoes ) , and the show has a built - in charm base on Chucky ’s status as a horror icon die back closely four ten . But even more significantly perhaps , the show is a standout example of a movie enfranchisement being thrive into a serial ; over four seasons , God Almighty Don Mancini has done an admirable job incorporating familiar Chucky characters from the film series ( including Jennifer Tilly as a bonkers version of “ Jennifer Tilly , have by Tiffany the killer doll , ” as well as former child thespian Alex Vincent , reprising his role from the 1988Child ’s Play ) with new fictional character , including a trio of gamey school kids who become Chucky ’s next - generation Nemesis .

Jennifer Tilly and Chucky on “Chucky”

Jennifer Tilly (as “Jennifer Tilly”) and Chucky have a heart-to-heart in the show’s most recent season. © Syfy

time of year three , which unfurled in two sections thanks to the 2023 Hollywood strikes , also added a seasonably bent to its common blend of campy humor , refreshingly well - integratedqueer radical , and gleeful gore ; we saw Chucky ( voiced by movie loyalist Brad Dourif ) pass through the White House by way of the First Family itself . for sure , it was part of a dire schema to re - pose the sinister spell that gives him immortal life , but it was still a clever way to tap into America ’s grow uneasiness about the upcoming election . time of year three also ended on a hell of a cliffhanger — trapping Chucky ’s teenage foes in doll body — as well as what felt like a unexampled start for Chucky and Tiffany , but with plenty of dangling threads ( what about their kidskin , GiGi ? ) left to explore .

If the worst happens , and Syfy and USA decide there ’s no more room forChucky , horror fans know Mancini wo n’t let his wiz character languish on the shelf for long . speak to io9 earlier this year , the revulsion Jehovah ( who ’s famously no fan of the in - name - only 2019Child ’s Playmovie ) shared a midget piece about his hopes for Chucky ’s big - screen door take . “ It ’s like very early day of of talk , but it ’s an exciting , exciting initiative , ” he said . “ I hope we ’re run short to get another time of year of the show as well [ as a raw movie ] . I signify , I think both can occur and they can both coexist in there . My architectural plan is to have it all make sense in terminal figure of the continuity and the overall mythology of the earthly concern we ’re building ; we wo n’t negate anything . ”

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