We spoke w/ 'Living With Chucky' director Kyra Elise Gardner about growing with the Chucky family, and what inspired the documentary.
“The family that slays together, stays together” is the motto for Living with Chucky, a documentary out now on Blu-ray that delves into the Chucky horror franchise that is home to the horror classic Child's Play and the current SyFy TV series Chucky. The film also explores how it takes a community, if not a family, to create a movie, especially in the horror genre.
MATTHEW PEJKOVIC: Documentaries about horror films have become much more prolific now than ever before. What separates Living with Chucky from other horror documentaries is the intimacy shown between the creation and its creators. It takes a community to put a film together; but the thing about the Chucky franchise, especially the last several projects, is that community, that family, has continued to live on through the same key crew members and cast.
Your short film, The Doll House, was the start of your exploration into your father’s work and the Chucky world that he helped create, but it also explores the different family ties that this franchise has where there is not only yourself and your father, but also Fiona and Brad Dourif.
GARDNER: It was really cool to meet Don for the first time! We went to his house, which was also cool because I got to meet these people where they live and see what they are like.
When was the first time you and your father spoke about ‘movie magic’? Because in Living with Chucky you talk about how in The Seed of Chucky there is a scene where he gets decapitated, and how at a young age that was something that was really strange and had quite an effect on you.
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