![]() One attitude I had from the very beginning was: if it is worth writing, it’s worth writing well. I was just getting out there as a horror writer, filled with energy, and I did my best to develop whatever talent I thought I could have. They all come and go… but not Child’s Play.Ĭhucky came pretty early in my career. It’s an unusual phenomenon– I did the comic book adaptation of Fright Night 2, and did other novelizations and TV tie-ins. With most movie novelizations, the book comes out, the movie comes out, and then they both kind of fade in history. No one knew it would have any legs as an IP. Matthew Costello: No, I didn’t think that at all. While the devil doll was only the beginning of Costello’s long and storied career, he was gracious enough to take a trip down memory lane with Bloody-Disgusting to talk about the novelizations, their impact on the greater Chucky multiverse and the potential to further explore Damballa’s dominion in books, TV and video games.īloody Disgusting: Did you ever imagine you’d be talking about Chucky 20 or 30 years down the line? Obviously, I had to reach out to the man responsible for my long-standing fear of Chucky’s literary adventures– novelist Matthew Costello. Recently my therapist said that it’s important to try to get right to the heart of your childhood trauma, lest it destroy you. In the context of novelist Matthew Costello’s Child’s Play 2 and 3, Chucky is merely a symptom of a much greater evil: the Mighty Damballa, written as an indescribable Lovecraftian God made of eyeballs and tentacles that caused even Charles Lee Ray to tremble. ![]() They were scary because they opened up the world of Chucky. Even as a kid I knew that the Child’s Play books weren’t just scary because of Chucky. To see an image of Chucky was bad enough, but to hear a bedtime story filtered through his twisted perspective? Traumatizing doesn’t begin to describe it. Let me tell you, that last one always worked. He adorned his walls with posters, rented the movies constantly, and would even read passages from the novelizations of Child’s Play 2 and 3 to drive me out of his bedroom. Back then my brother (four years my senior) would beg for every piece of Chucky media he could get his little hands on. From 7-Eleven to Spencer’s Gifts, American stores were crammed to the brim with Child’s Play comics, toys, posters, bumper stickers, magazines, books and t-shirts.įor me, a tiny tot who lived in constant terror of the quote-unquote Good Guy, it was an absolute living hell. You think Blumhouse’s M3GAN is a big deal? From 1988 to 1991, Chucky was even bigger.
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