It would be cheesy for us to start an article about the Child’s Play franchise with the sentence “he always comes back,” and yet — here we are doing exactly that. In the horror world, franchises are king, but there’s something about the universe of the tiny killer doll voiced by Brad Dourif that has extra staying power. What started as a writing project for Don Mancini while he was a student at UCLA quickly blossomed into a seven-film series before branching over into television back in 2021. Director Lars Klevberg even attempted to reboot the original film in 2019 with a new twist that saw Aubrey Plaza step into a leading role, but audiences were clear that nothing could replace the original pint-sized terror.