In the depths of the northern woods, a witch resides. She is known by many names and none at all. Her existence is a secret whispered with equal parts fear and fascination. Legends speak of her wisdom, her power, and her eternal age. It is said that the witch in the north can see into the souls of men, knowing their deepest desires and darkest secrets. She is a force to be reckoned with, an enigmatic figure who walks the line between light and dark.
Plot
Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.
After accused of murdering her family, Nica is taken to an asylum and thinks that she's the cause of the deaths of her family. However, when grisly deaths start to occur, she then realizes that Chucky, her illusion might not be make believe. She also finds out that the doll is slowly starting to possess anyone or anything to join a huge cult to kill off Chucky's victims, but things don't go to well in the asylum, including for Chucky's long lost friend, Andy, who tries to stop the cult from getting bigger while also trying to get past Chucky's wife, "Tiffany."
The story takes place four years aft the previous part. Nica is transferred to a low security institution aft the completion of her therapy n her accepting that Chucky was a manifestation of her psychosis n that she murdered her family. Nica's doc gets a doll for the group therapy, another doll is brought to the institution by the guardian of Nica's niece n a third one is couriered to the doc by an anonymous fella. —[email protected]
Synopsis
The previous 'Child's Play' film ended with Nica being arrested for Chucky killing her family; Nica's niece Alice in Chucky's clutches; Tiffany (still possessing the body of actress Jennifer Tilly) subsequently mailing Chucky to a now-adult Andy Barclay (the protagonist in the first three films); and Andy shooting Chucky when the package arrives.
Jumping ahead a few years, Andy (Alex Vincent) is on a date. His date looked up his past online and, creeped out by it, leaves early. Andy returns home and, from a safe, removes the decapitated but still alive head of Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif). This is the scar-headed version from Bride through Curse of Chucky (Scar-Chucky). The pair banter for a bit, and then Andy takes out a blow torch and begins torturing his nemesis with it.
Meanwhile, Nica (Fiona Dourif) is receiving electro-shock therapy in a mental hospital. She was deemed insane and committed after trial for the events in the first film. She speaks with her psychologist, Dr. Foley (Michael Terriault). Dr. Foley notes that Nica has made a lot of progress in recognizing that she, not Chucky, killed her family. He has her transferred to a low-security institution. There, she meets fellow inmates Malcolm (who suffers from multiple personality disorder), Angela (schizophrenia), Madeleine (murdered her child), and Claire (anger issues and pyromania). Things go well at first. She and Malcom have sex and she begins group therapy. At one group session, Dr. Foley brings out a "Good Guy" doll he bought from Hot Topic. Nica looks shaken, but claims the doll is not real. Angela says Chucky called her on the phone and said he was going to murder them all. Madeleine then adopts the doll as her new "baby" (Baby-Chucky). Later that day, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) shows up to speak with Nica. She states that she was Alice's guardian until Alice's recent death. of a broken heart. Nica is devastated to learn that Alice is dead and blames herself. Tiffany then leaves Nica with another Good Guy doll that Alice allegedly used during therapy.
That night, one of the Chucky dolls (it is not revealed which one) steals a scalpel and walks down the hallway to Nica's room. He sees Angela, who believes she is hallucinating (Chucky also admits he had called Angela on the phone). Chucky promises to kill her next. Chucky enters Nica's room. and sees blood pooling on the floor. Chucky realizes Nica ripped one of the spokes off her wheelchair and slit her writs out of guilt over what happened to Alice. Nica awakens the next day to see her arm sewn up (in a manner similar to Scar-Chucky's face) and Chucky having written "not so fast" in the pool of blood. Nica then hears screaming and sees that Chucky had slit Angela's wrist with the wheelchair wire and killed her instead.
At group therapy, Nica immediately drops the act and begins arguing that Chucky murdered Angela. To prove that Chucky isn't real, Dr. Foley uses a lighter to melt the hand of the Chucky doll given to her by Tiffany into a shape resembling a claw (Claw-Chucky). Presumably, were Chucky alive, he would have screamed in pain. When Nica demands he do the same thing to Baby-Chucky, Madeine flees the room with her "baby." Malcolm believes Nica and the pair begin following Madeleine. Malcolm goes outside where Madeleine fled to confront her. Watching from the window as there is no handicap access to the backyard, Nica sees Baby-Chucky move and flip her off. During a confrontation, Baby-Chucky and Malcolm fall into an open grave (apparently, the institution buries patients like Angela on-site). When they emerge, Malcolm gives Nica an evil smile and begins referring to himself as "Charles" (Chucky's human name had been Charles Lee Ray). This hints at the idea that Chucky is now possessing Malcolm. Meanwhile, Claire goes to throw Claw-Chucky in the trash when he comes to life and bites her. She freaks out and Dr. Foley and an orderly forcibly strap her to a bed before leaving the room to attend to another emergency. Claw-Chucky kills Claire by shooting an oxygen tank through the skylight above her, with the falling glass impaling and decapitating Claire.
Andy hears of the murders, grabs a Chucky doll he had given a military haircut to (referencing the events of Child's Play 3), and begins driving to the institution. He receives a call from Tiffany (who admits she is still in Jennifer Tilly's body - i.e., the actress Jennifer Tilly is a character in this series) who taunts him. She also references there are "three of them" in a cult.
Dr. Foley wheels Nica into his office where he hypnotizes her. Once she is hypnotized, it becomes clear that Dr. Foley has done this before and uses these opportunities to brainwash and rape Nica. He tells Nica that she is responsible for the deaths of Angela and Claire. He begins to kiss Nica when one of the Chuckys smashes him on the head with a glass bottle. Chucky admits that he doesn't know whether to kill Dr. Foley or commend him for being so twisted. He tries to convince Nica to kill Dr. Foley, but she doesn't. She then has a dream where she is taunted by Alice and attacked by a giant-sized Chucky. When Nica awakens, Dr. Foley claims that Nica was the one who attacked him.
A little later, Dr. Foley receives the military haircut Good Guy doll (haircut-Chucky) in the mail. Andy shows up and demands to be committed, fighting the guards until they lock him in a rubber room. Madeleine seemingly has a breakthrough with the Baby Chucky and they bury the doll in the cemetery. Unsure how she will react having acknowledged that she killed her real child, Dr. Foley puts Madeleine on suicide watch. But Baby Chucky arises from his grave, crawls in through Madeleine's window, and kills her (with her consent) by ripping out her tongue. He then makes it look like a suicide. Dr. Foley returns to his office to find Nica there (she had been drugged by Claw-Chucky). Dr. Foley tells her he is going to pin the new deaths on her and write a book on her murders. He then puts Nica in high heels (he has a foot fetish) and begins molesting her when he is again knocked out by both Chucky dolls. Claw-Chucky explains that he learned a new voodoo spell that allows him to split his soul across multiple bodies. Chucky explains that he successfully possessed Alice and went on a killing spree in Alice's body. But one of Alice's victims fought back and killed her, thus forcing him back into the doll bodies. The two Chuckies then bring haircut-Chucky to life. The trio kill an orderly that walked in on them. Meanwhile, Tiffany pulls up outside the institution and slits the guard's throat. We see she has the doll her soul used to inhabit in the back seat.
The Chuckys come up with a plan. Baby-Chucky goes off to tie up loose ends (killing a nurse and, eventually, Malcolm, who had never actually been possessed). Claw-Chucky successfully possesses Nica and in so doing, is able to allow her to walk again. Nica/Chucky gets out of her wheelchair and stomps Dr. Foley's head in with her high heels. Haircut-Chucky tries to kill Andy, but is overpowered by him. Andy rips open Haircut-Chucky's stomach and pulls out a gun he had hidden inside (he mailed the doll to Dr. Foley to smuggle the weapon inside the institution). Andy and Haircut-Chucky fight and Andy shoots the doll to death. Andy turns around and sees Nica/Chucky standing in the doorway. Nica/Chucky taunts Andy, saying he doesn't have the guts to sacrifice Nica to kill him. Andy does have the guts and tries to shoot Nica/Chucky, but is out of bullets. Nica/Chucky locks Andy into the rubber room (ostensibly the police will pin all the murders on Andy as he is the only one left alive and is in a cell with a gun and a bloody Chucky doll corpse). Nica/Chucky walks out of the institution as Baby-Chucky stays behind to keep an eye on Andy.
Nica/Chucky walks up to Tiffany's car and the two make out. They get into the car, where Tiffany says she misses Alice. The two then burst into laughter at that comment. as does the Tiffany doll sitting in the back seat (this suggests that Tiffany may have also split her soul between the doll and Jennifer Tilly. It could also mean that the Tiffany doll houses Alice's soul, or perhaps Glen/Glenda's soul(s) as their fates remain unresolved). The three then drive off into the night as the police arrive.
In a post-credits scene (in the DVD/Blu ray version only), the front door to Andy's house is opened. Scar-Chucky looks over and exclaims "Kyle!" (Christine Elise - Andy's foster sister from the second Chucky film). Kyle walks in and begins torturing the head of Scar-Chucky (and ostensibly, is the last hope for defeating the now-victorious cult of Chucky).
Alice Pierce
Alice Pierce is a character in Curse Of Chucky and a minor character in Cult Of Chucky. She is a sweet 8-year old girl, who keeps Chucky as her toy once she finds him at her aunt Nica's house. She is the daughter of Barb and Ian.
She is a force to be reckoned with, an enigmatic figure who walks the line between light and dark. Her eyes, like shards of ice, hold a knowledge that is both ancient and timeless. Those who seek her guidance must traverse treacherous paths and endure hardships.
Curse Of Chucky (2013) [ ]
She arrives with her family to comfort her aunt Nica, along with their live-in nanny Jill. Nica was about to give the Chucky doll to her, but suddenly disappear. Alice go to the bathroom and is taken there by Jill and Ian. She sees something moving behind the curtain and finds Chucky. She takes a liking to Chucky immediately, and keeps him by her side. Her mother, Barb, doesn't want her to have another doll but Ian allows her to keep it. She offers to help make dinner with Nica and Chucky pours rat poison in one of the bowls. They have dinner and Alice says her chili tastes weird. It is then revealed that Father Frank ate the poison and he leaves early when he feels sick. Alice takes Chucky to the window, where they see him drive off.
Later in the night, when the adults are watching old footage of the family, Alice comes to them, saying she cannot find Chucky and the family splits up to look for the doll. Nica finds him and proceeds up the elevator to Barb and Alice. She asks her aunt to read her a bed time story; however, her mother dismisses the question and takes her to bed.
Alice Pierce - Curse Of Chucky
After they pray, Alice mentions that Chucky told her there is no god, and that Chucky says that they are all going to die. Barb does not believe that the doll speaks, and tucks her into bed. Alice is scared of the thunderstorm outside and wants to sleep with her mother, but Barb reassures her that Jill will be coming soon. After Barb leaves, she hides under the covers with a flashlight, telling Chucky that she is scared. This causes him to spring to life with laughter, telling her "you fucking should be".
To keep her out of the way, Chucky tells her that they are going to play Hide-And-Seek. She hides herself in the closet, allowing Chucky to shut and lock the door. He murders all but Nica, who is blamed as the killer. Alice is found by police and taken to live with her grandmother.
Chucky manages to find her again, after she comes home from school. When she asks where her grandmother is, Chucky comments that she is "in the cellar", as he suffocated her with a plastic bag. Alice professes that she believes Nica killed her parents, but Chucky promises that he is her friend to the end, and that it is time for a new game, "Hide the Soul," and he chooses her to be "it." Alice is dismayed by this, as she says she is always "it," but Chucky reminds her that nobody would suspect her and she gladly accepts it. He begins the chant and successfully transfers his soul into her body.
The journey to the witch's abode is filled with whispers of danger and uncertainty. Many have been lost along the way, succumbing to the frigid winters and mysterious creatures that guard her domain. But for those who persist, there is the promise of enlightenment and transformation. Once in the presence of the witch, the aura of her power is palpable. She moves with grace and purpose, surrounded by an air of mystery. Her voice is a siren's song, luring those who dare to approach closer to the edge of their own limitations. She speaks in riddles and prophecies, testing the resolve and intellect of those who seek her counsel. The witch of the north possesses a wisdom that transcends time and space. Her knowledge of herbs, potions, and spells is unmatched. She can heal the sick, bring fertility to barren lands, and protect against malevolent forces. But her powers are not to be trifled with. For every blessing, there is a curse. It is said that her favors come at great cost, and those who fail to heed the warning pay a heavy price. There is no denying the allure of the witch residing in the north. Her existence fuels the imagination of storytellers and artists. She is a figure of power, mystery, and the unexplored facets of the human soul. To encounter her is to come face to face with the unknown, to unlock the potential within oneself. The witch in the north is a testament to the enduring allure of magic, the boundary between reality and fantasy..
Reviews for "The Ancient Traditions of the Witch Living in the North"
1. Sarah - 2 stars
I found "Witch Residing in the North" to be rather disappointing. The plot was sluggish and lacked excitement. The main character was underdeveloped and lacked depth. Additionally, the writing style was inconsistent and made it difficult to fully immerse myself in the story. Overall, I was disappointed with the book and would not recommend it to others.
2. Mark - 3 stars
While "Witch Residing in the North" had an intriguing premise, it ultimately fell flat for me. The pacing was inconsistent, with slow and repetitive sections that dragged on. The world-building was also lacking, leaving me with unanswered questions and a lack of connection to the setting. The characters were somewhat interesting, but their development was shallow and they did not fully engage me. Overall, I felt that the book had potential, but it failed to deliver in execution.
3. Emily - 2 stars
Unfortunately, "Witch Residing in the North" did not live up to my expectations. The story was predictable and lacked originality, following familiar tropes without adding anything new or exciting. The dialogue felt stilted and unnatural, making it difficult to connect with the characters. Additionally, the writing lacked descriptive detail, which made it hard to envision the settings and scenes. Overall, I was left feeling disappointed and unsatisfied with this book.