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{{Infobox Film
| name = Child's Play 2: Chucky's Back
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| name = [[The Wolf Man]]
| image = Childsplay2.jpg
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| image = Wolf Man (2009) Teaser Poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical Release Poster
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| director = [[John Lafia]]
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| caption =
| producer = [[David Kirschner]]
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| director = Joe Johnston
| eproducer = Robert Latham Brown
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| producer =
| writer = [[Don Mancini]] (characters)<br>[[Don Mancini]] (screenplay)
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| writer = Andrew Kevin Walker; David Self
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| narrator =
| starring = [[Alex Vincent]]<br>[[Jenny Agutter]]<br>[[Gerrit Graham]]<br>[[Christine Elise]]<br>[[Brad Dourif]]<br>[[Grace Zabriskie]]
 
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| starring = Benicio del Toro; Anthony Hopkins; Hugo Weaving
| music = [[Graeme Revell]]
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| music = Danny Elfman
| cinematography = [[Stefan Czapsky]]
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| cinematography = Shelly Johnson
| editing = [[Edward Warschilka]]
 
| distributor = [[Universal Pictures]]
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| editing = Dennis Virkler
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| distributor = Universal Pictures; Stuber Productions
| released = [[November 9]], [[1990 in film|1990]] (USA)
 
| runtime = 84 min.
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| released = November 6th, 2009 (projected)
| country = [[USA]]
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| runtime =
| awards = None
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| country = USA
| language = English
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| language =
| budget = $13,000,000 (estimated)
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| budget = $85,000,000 (estimated)
|gross = $28,501,605 (USA)
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| gross =
| preceded_by = ''[[Child's Play]]'' (1988)
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| preceded_by =
| followed_by = ''[[Child's Play 3]]'' (1991)
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| followed_by =
| amg_id = 1:9232
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| website = http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/
| imdb_id = 0099253
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| amg_id =
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| imdb_id = tt0780653
 
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'''The Wolf Man''' is an American horror film and a remake of the 1941 Universal Classic, ''[[The Wolf Man]]''.
'''''Child's Play 2''''' (also known as '''''Child's Play 2: Chucky's Back''''') is the [[1990 in film|1990]] [[sequel]] to the [[1988 in film|1988]] [[horror film]] ''[[Child's Play]]'', written by [[Don Mancini]] and directed by [[John Lafia]]. It was released on [[November 9]], [[1990]], exactly two years after the predecessor. The film uses more comic elements in regards to the [[Chucky (Child's Play)|Chucky]] character than its predecessor.
 
   
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== Cast ==
The film was successful for a [[horror film]], in its opening weekend—it took an estimated $10,718,520, with only 1,996 screens in the [[United States]]. The film grossed an estimated $28,501,605 in the US and was declared a hit, but the movie flopped overseas and only grossed $7.2 million.
 
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<th> Actor </th><th> Role</th>
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<td> Benicio del Toro </td><td> Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man</td>
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<td> Anthony Hopkins </td><td> Sir John Talbot</td>
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<td> Emily Blunt </td><td> Gwen Conliffe </td>
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<td> Hugo Weaving </td><td> Detective Aberline </td>
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<td> Geraldine Chaplin </td><td> Maleva </td>
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<td> Art Malik </td><td> Singh </td>
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<td> Elizabeth Croft </td><td> Ophelia </td>
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<td> Sam Hazeldine </td><td> Horatio</td>
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<td> David Stern </td><td> Kirk </td>
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<td> Michael Cronin </td><td> Doctor Lloyd </td>
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<td> Nicholas Day </td><td> Colonel Montford</td>
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<td> Christina Contes </td><td> Solana Talbot</td>
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<td> Kiran Shah </td><td> Wolfboy </td>
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== Plot ==
The film received mixed to negative reviews, with a 30% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes [http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/childs_play_2/] The film was rated "R" by the [[Motion Picture Association of America|MPAA]].
 
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Lawrence Talbot was once a member of a regal family from the Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor. After the tragic death of his mother, Talbot left Europe and remained away for many years. Talbot doesn't return to Blackmoor until he encounters Gwen Conliffe, his brother's fiancée. Gwen tells Lawrence that his brother has turned up missing and Lawrence agrees to help out with the search party.
   
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The search brings Talbot into a grisly web of intrigue involving a series of brutal, animalistic murders. As he is drawn deeper and deeper into the drama, he discovers his growing attachment for Gwen Conliffe, and also learns of the dark secret that lurks within himself.
==Plot summary==
 
   
 
== Notes & Trivia ==
Andy Barclay ([[Alex Vincent]]), now 8 years old, has been placed with a foster family after the events of the first film. Karen Barclay, his mother, has been undergoing psychiatric testing after maintaining that [[Chucky (Child's Play)| Chucky]] (voiced by [[Brad Dourif]]) was, in fact, alive. Detective Mike Norris had been threatened into dismissal and feared humiliation; hence why he did not back her up. In an attempt to save the company's reputation, an executive of the company named Mattson ([[Greg Germann]]), has the killer doll's body reconstructed. The effort is to prove to the public that nothing was wrong with the line of Good Guy dolls and the Barclays' claims were an isolated incident. The company assumes an employee had tampered with Chucky's voice synthesizer. During Chucky's reconstruction (which is witnessed by Mattson and Mr. Sullivan, the CEO of the company), the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray is resurrected unintentionally. One of the technicians is electrocuted (presumably using his "life energy" to bring Chucky back to life). Disgusted by yet another death linked to the Good Guy doll, Mr. Sullivan ([[Peter Haskell]]) tells Mattson to "stick it [the doll] up your ass!".
 
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* Based upon the original 1941 film ''[[The Wolf Man]]'' starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Claude Raines. Screenplay by Curt Siodmak.
   
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* ''The Wolf Man'' was originally slated for a Friday, February, 13th release, which would have opened it on the same night as Marcus Nispel's remake of ''[[Friday the 13th]]''. The date was then moved to April 3rd, 2009, then again to November 6th, 2009.
Upon Andy's arrival at the Simpson home, he discovers that there is a Good Guy doll named Tommy in his bedroom closet when it falls from the top shelf. Startling and frightening Andy, his foster mother, Joanne Simpson ([[Jenny Agutter]]), immediately removes it from his room.
 
   
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* Mark Romanek was originally hired to direct ''The Wolf Man'', but left the project early in its production citing budgetery and creative differences.
   
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== Related Articles ==
[[Image:Chucky2SimpsonFamily.jpg|thumb|left|Andy, shortly after the Simpson Family (standing) finds him tied to his bed by Chucky. ]]
 
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* [[Wolf Man]]
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* [[:Category:Wolf Man images|Wolf Man images]]
   
 
== External Links ==
Another foster child, Kyle ([[Christine Elise]]), also resides with the Simpson family. She is nearly 18 years old and has grown up in the foster care system. She takes Andy under her wing and mentors him on the trials and tribulations of living in foster homes.
 
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* [[Wikipedia:The Wolf Man (2009 film)|Wolf Man at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/ Wolf Man movie Official Website]
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* [http://www.dreadcentral.com/database/wolf-man-the Wolf Man at Dread Central]
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* [http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/movies/wolfman.php Wolf Man at Upcoming Horror Movies]
   
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Leaving the toy company that night, Mattson attempts to put Chucky into his trunk. The trunk, being completely full, won't close. As it is raining heavily, he soon gives up and throws Chucky into the backseat of his BMW. The Good Guy Doll executive stops at a liquor store to pick up some vodka for his anniversary. While inside the liquor store, Chucky uses the vehicle's cell phone to call Grace Poole, Andy's social worker. Chucky claims to be Andy's uncle Charles; Ms. Poole informs him that Andy is living with the Simpson family. Chucky then activates the car alarm, forcing Mattson to abruptly depart the liquor store. Chucky uses a toy water pistol and demands Mattson drive him to a parking lot nearby the Simpson home. Chucky uses a jump rope to tie the executive's hands behind the seat and then suffocates him with a plastic bag. During the night, Chucky destroys the Tommy Good Guy doll and buries him underneath the backyard tree swing.
 
 
Phil Simpson ([[Gerrit Graham]]) is concerned that he and his wife are not going to be able to care for Andy. Because of the traumatic murders Andy has witnessed, he may need more emotional support than the Simpsons can provide. They discuss sending him back to the agency. Andy overhears the conversation, and begins carrying Chucky (who he thinks is Tommy) around, presumably in an attempt to gain acceptance and stay with the Simpson family.
 
 
Wasting no time, Andy awakes one night to find that Chucky has tied him to his bed. Chucky attempts to transfer his soul into the boy's body. Before he can complete the ritual, he is interrupted by Kyle, who sneaks in the window after a late-night party. Joanne and Phil discover them and assume Kyle had tied Andy up so that he wouldn't tell on her for sneaking out. Andy claims Chucky is alive, but Phil won't listen. Phil angrily throws Chucky into the basement. Which Chucky gets up and finds out he's turning human again by having a bloody nose.
 
 
[[Image:Chucky2Kettlewell.jpg|thumb|right|Chucky, about to beat Ms. Kettlewell to death with a yardstick.]]
 
 
The next day, Chucky hitches a ride on the bottom of the bus and follows Andy to school. At the end of the day, Andy's teacher, Ms. Kettlewell ([[Beth Grant]]), is looking over papers and sees [[profanity]] on Andy's paper. Andy sees Chucky on the toy shelf, and gasps. Ms. Kettlewell angrily confronts Andy about his paper. She assumes Andy is going to play with the doll as he stares at it. She locks Chucky in the storage closet and demands that Andy put his head down on his desk. Locking Andy in the classroom, she goes to call the Simpsons. Chucky immediately begins shouting for Andy to let him out of the closet. Andy escapes via the classroom window and runs home. Ms. Kettlewell returns a short time later and finds the classroom empty. Hearing banging coming from the storage closet, she naturally assumes that Andy is hiding in it. While searching the closet for Andy, Chucky pops out from behind a rack of coats and kills Ms. Kettlewell by smashing her with a yard-stick.
 
 
It is now night time at the Simpson home. Andy goes into the basement with an electric knife determined to kill Chucky. Chucky jumps onto Andy's back from behind some hanging laundry and a struggle ensues. Hearing the commotion, Phil is awakened and goes to the basement to investigate. Chucky hides underneath the stairs. Phil begins walking down the stairs and asks Andy to put down the knife. Chucky trips Phil from beneath the stairs and he falls to his death.
 
 
The police and Grace Poole arrive. Andy is sent back to the orphanage. Kyle, upset about the evening's events, goes outside to smoke a cigarette on the swing. While swinging, she kicks up some dirt and discovers the Tommy doll buried in a shallow grave. Realizing Andy was telling the truth about Chucky, she goes back into the Simpson house only to discover that Joanne's throat had been slashed. Chucky is hiding under the bed and eventually gets the upper hand, putting a knife to Kyle's cheek.
 
 
Chucky forces Kyle to drive him to the orphanage to get Andy. On the way to the orphanage, a policeman pulls Kyle over for speeding. He does not give Kyle a ticket and allows her to go on her way. Frustrated, Chucky demands Kyle drive faster - she complains they will just get pulled over again. Kyle fastens her seatbelt and begins to drive much faster. Suddenly she slams on the brakes and Chucky goes flying through the windshield. Chucky jumps up onto the hood of the car. Kyle steps on the gas and drives into a chain-link fence. Not knowing where the doll is, Kyle cautiously steps out of the car. Chucky jumps onto her back from behind.
 
 
Arriving at the orphanage, Chucky pulls the fire alarm. Only Andy, Kyle, Chucky and Grace Poole are left in the building. Ms. Poole is angry and assumes that Kyle pulled the fire alarm. She demands to speak with Kyle and Andy in her office. She grabs Chucky out of Kyle's arms and Chucky proceeds to stab her. The social worker falls onto the copy machine and it begins making photocopies of her bloody and lifeless body. In a quick motion, Chucky locks Kyle outside of the office and threatens Andy with the knife. The two flee the building, hopping into the back of a [[Chicago Sun Times]] truck. Kyle pursues them in the Simpson station wagon, eventually forcing the truck off the road. The driver grabs her in a confrontation as she sees Andy and Chucky running into the nearby Good Guy doll factory. Kyle runs after Andy and Chucky.
 
 
Now inside the Good Guy doll Factory, Chucky manages to complete the voodoo transfer ritual. However, as Chucky's voodoo instructor warned in the previous film, Chucky has remained in his doll form for too long and as a result the ritual fails. Chucky's nose begins to bleed, implying that he will be trapped inside the doll forever - which sends Chucky into a rage. Kyle knocks a stack of Good Guy doll boxes onto Chucky, temporarily disabling him. Kyle and Andy attempt to find a way out of the virtual maze of Good Guy doll boxes with Chucky in pursuit. Kyle and Andy finally find a conveyor belt where completed Good Guy dolls are being sent down. They begin climbing up it. Andy slips and slides half-way down the roller-bar conveyor belt - only to see Chucky spring up with a knife. Andy desperately begins climbing, and when he reaches the top, Kyle closes the gate at the belt's end right onto Chucky's hand. Chucky is forced to rip off his own hand. Using a vice to hold the knife, he shoves it into the bloody stump.
 
 
Because of the pile-up of Good Guy dolls on the conveyor belt, an alarm sounds in the factory control room. The lone technician on duty goes to investigate. Rectifying the problem, he turns around to head back to the control room. Chucky appears and replaces his eyes.
 
 
Kyle and Andy, still struggling to find a way out of the factory, are standing in front of yet a different conveyor belt. Suddenly, Chucky appears behind them on a doll stand. He nearly stabs Andy in the head, but Kyle shouts "duck" and throws a tray of tools at Chucky. A sewing machine that attaches doll hair begins sewing Chucky to the doll stand, trapping him. Andy then reverses the conveyor belt, sending Chucky into a machine that attaches doll limbs. After a few moments, the conveyor belts begin to move forward. Andy and Kyle see a mass of melted plastic and blood. Assuming that Chucky is finally dead, Kyle and Andy begin to exit the factory. Chucky has rigged the body of the factory technician he killed earlier with rope, and uses it to knock Kyle unconscious. Chucky has cut off his own legs off to escape from the limb attachment machine.
 
 
Chucky inadvertently puts himself directly beneath a valve for a large cauldron of liquefied plastic. Andy pours the molten plastic all over Chucky, seemingly killing him this time. Andy rescues the unconscious Kyle from the conveyor belt and the two take one last look at the mess where Chucky had been. Suddenly Chucky springs up and makes one last try for Andy. Kyle grabs an air hose that Chucky had severed a few moments earlier and shoves it into Chucky's mouth, which causes Chucky's head to explode.
 
 
As a new day dawns, Andy and Kyle are seen walking out of the factory, uncertain of what their futures' will hold.
 
 
==Main cast==
 
* [[Alex Vincent]] as Andy Barclay
 
* [[Jenny Agutter]] as Joanne Simpson
 
* [[Gerrit Graham]] as Phil Simpson
 
* [[Christine Elise]] as Kyle
 
* [[Brad Dourif]] as the voice of [[Chucky (Child's Play)|Chucky]]
 
* [[Grace Zabriskie]] as Grace Poole
 
* [[Greg Germann]] as Mattson, Good Guy dolls Executive
 
* [[Beth Grant]] as Miss Kettlewell
 
* [[Peter Haskell]] as Mr. Sullivan, Good Guy dolls CEO
 
 
==Deaths==
 
 
1.) Pay Pals employee #1 - Electrocuted by Chucky's resurrection.
 
 
2.) Mattson - Suffocated by Chucky with plastic bag.
 
 
3.) Miss Kettlewell - Stabbed with ball point pump by Chucky and beaten to death with yard stick.
 
 
4.) Phil Simpson - Tripped by Chucky with hook and falls to death.
 
 
5.) Joanne Simpson - Slit throat and strangled to death by Chucky with sowing machine. (Off screen)
 
 
6.) Grace Poole - Stabbed three times by Chucky and falls on paper copier.
 
 
7.) Pay Pals employee #2 - Sliced in face by Chucky and gets eyes replaced by machine.
 
 
8.) Chucky - Scalded and melted with plastic liquid batter and blown up.
 
 
==Trivia==
 
*A different ending is shown during the USA Network airing version than the one in the theatrical release. After Andy and Kyle come out of the factory, during the point where the credits would usually roll, we are taken back into the factory, and shown pieces of Chucky, most notably his eye stirring into the vat of plastic, then a new head is made (without hair or eyes), the head makes an evil grin, devouring the camera, then the credits roll.
 
 
* In some early and later episodes of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' you can see the original 1991 [[MCA]]/[[Universal Pictures]] Home Video [[VHS]] copy of the film on the shelf next to Jerry's stereo.
 
 
*The spell Chucky chants to place his soul in Andy's body is mostly in French.
 
 
*Grace Poole, the name of the social worker, is the name of the servant takes care of Mr Roderick's crazy wife in Jane Eyre.
 
 
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* {{imdb title|id=0099253|title=Child's Play 2}}
 
* {{rotten-tomatoes|id=childs_play_2|title=Child's Play 2}}
 
 
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The Wolf Man is an American horror film and a remake of the 1941 Universal Classic, The Wolf Man.

Cast

Actor Role
Benicio del Toro Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man
Anthony Hopkins Sir John Talbot
Emily Blunt Gwen Conliffe
Hugo Weaving Detective Aberline
Geraldine Chaplin Maleva
Art Malik Singh
Elizabeth Croft Ophelia
Sam Hazeldine Horatio
David Stern Kirk
Michael Cronin Doctor Lloyd
Nicholas Day Colonel Montford
Christina Contes Solana Talbot
Kiran Shah Wolfboy

Plot

Lawrence Talbot was once a member of a regal family from the Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor. After the tragic death of his mother, Talbot left Europe and remained away for many years. Talbot doesn't return to Blackmoor until he encounters Gwen Conliffe, his brother's fiancée. Gwen tells Lawrence that his brother has turned up missing and Lawrence agrees to help out with the search party.

The search brings Talbot into a grisly web of intrigue involving a series of brutal, animalistic murders. As he is drawn deeper and deeper into the drama, he discovers his growing attachment for Gwen Conliffe, and also learns of the dark secret that lurks within himself.

Notes & Trivia

  • Based upon the original 1941 film The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Claude Raines. Screenplay by Curt Siodmak.
  • The Wolf Man was originally slated for a Friday, February, 13th release, which would have opened it on the same night as Marcus Nispel's remake of Friday the 13th. The date was then moved to April 3rd, 2009, then again to November 6th, 2009.
  • Mark Romanek was originally hired to direct The Wolf Man, but left the project early in its production citing budgetery and creative differences.

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