The Child's Play franchise introduced a new type of slasher that was unlike anything seen before. In the past, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees introduced the idea that an effective killer needed strength and drive to properly kill a victim. Years later, Freddy Krueger appeared and showed that strength was nothing compared to the supernatural ability to invade a victim's dreams. Through fear, anything could be achieved, and while these killers proved that, Child's Play showed that there was another option. Through voodoo, a killer transferred his soul into a doll and began taking lives in hopes of finding a body he could live in.
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