![]() “This is how it works, people! Your children are duplications of your bad self!” ![]() “I thought that was such a great part of the story,” he said, laughing. And if we truly were going to have this machine-learning character that was up to date with AI, they would, very much like a young child, take on a lesson and learn from us - for better or worse. “He was really curious about how his own children were giving impressions to him and how curious they were. (In the Summer of Evil Dolls, which also includes next week’s “Annabelle Comes Home,” MastersFX is additionally behind the doll design of July’s “Brahms: The Boy II.”)Īlthough designed largely in tribute to the original film’s villainous Good Guys doll, down to the striped shirt and denim overalls, red hair and mass-produced packaging, the new Chucky’s facial features required an expressive range of emotions to convey different compulsions than the original Chucky. But I didn’t want to mimic it or repeat it because, hats off, they did great work, and why repeat it?” So to me it meant respecting that work and the art that went into that. “Kevin Yagher, who supervised the original, is a genius. “I was around when the first was made, and I remember all the guys that were on that show and I know its construction intimately,” said Emmy-winning artist and MastersFX President Todd Masters. The array of practical animatronic puppets later was enhanced with VFX by Pixomondo. That curiosity - along with a sense of needfulness, despair and eventual homicidal rage - plays out across Chucky’s freckled face, brought to life by award-winning character FX studio MastersFX. I'm sure you can do better.“I wanted to create something that had its own will,” he added, “based on how small toddlers problem-solve and are always curious - initially they have a good heart, and everything they look at and touch is based on a curiosity for what’s going on in the world.” (I've already made the "Siri-al killer" one. Please feel free to hit us with your best murderous Siri jokes in the comments. AMI is about a high school student who sets up a Siri-esque voice assistant to sound like her late mother, which then compels her to kill a bunch of people. ![]() Meanwhile, a trailer for another tech-heavy horror movie landed this week. We'll find out when it hits theaters on June 21st. The pedigree for the remake is nothing to sniff at (the solid cast includes Parks and Recreation's Aubrey Plaza and the always excellent Brian Tyree Henry) and the trailer is fun, so there's a chance this could be the most compelling Child's Play/Chucky movie for a long time. So, yeah, Chucky's almost certainly an evil robot this time around, which will probably terrify Elon Musk. ![]() It has a "cloud-backed voice recognition engine capable of identifying speech," along with 20 cameras and sensors that "provide real-time information about its environment." It also connects to WiFi and can control all your smart home products. In addition, there's a promo site for that toy, which is called Buddi. A linked video posted this week seems to be from the same tech company, Kaslan, which hinted at a "new family product that will change the landscape of artificial intelligence forever." It opens up like an ad for a big tech company, before showing some moving metal parts amid some familiar-looking clothing and a kid getting his face scanned after unwrapping a certain doll (which you don't get a good look at here, unfortunately). The evidence in the trailer is pretty conclusive. ![]()
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