How To Watch Every Child’s Play Movie and TV Show in Order

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Rachel Ulatowski

Rachel Ulatowski

JustWatch Editor

The Child’s Play franchise, also known as the Chucky franchise, has delighted horror and slasher fans for over thirty years. Following the original film’s premiere, Chucky (Brad Dourif) became a horror icon, spawning a franchise consisting of nine movies, a TV series, and a short film. Check out our guide to find out where to watch every entry in the Child’s Play franchise in order.

The franchise started with the premiere of Child’s Play in 1988. The film follows Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), a young boy gifted a Good Guy doll for his birthday. Unbeknownst to him and his mother, Karen (Catherine Hicks), the doll is inhabited by the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray and comes to life to terrorize them. Child’s Play was a success, earning praise for its unique and terrifying puppetry and bold decision to make the primary victim of the film a child. 

The film received a direct sequel, Child’s Play 3, premiered less than a year later and featured an eight-year time skip, focusing on a teenage Andy (Justin Whalin) who deals with Chucky while enrolled in Kent Military School. Unfortunately, both sequels failed to replicate the original’s box office success and were criticized for rehashing the same horror and slasher elements from the first film.

Hence, Child’s Play went on a seven-year hiatus before returning with Bride of Chucky. In the movie, Ray’s ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) revives Chucky before becoming a doll herself. Not only did the film garner praise for its dark humor and gain a cult following, but it was also praised for improving the franchise by shifting focus to the dolls and including LGBTQ+ representation with Tiffany, who is bisexual.

The fifth installment, Cult of Chucky return to the source material. In Curse of Chucky, Chucky finds a new family to terrorize, while the franchise comes full circle in Cult of Chucky with the return of Andy (Vincent). The sixth and seventh installments received the most positive critical reception in the franchise as the movies covered new ground and brought a new sense of terror to Chucky.

While Cult of Chucky played out like a finale and the next film was the reboot Chucky. The series sees Chucky fall into the hands of a teenage boy, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), who struggles to resist Chucky’s influence while navigating high school and relationships.

How to watch the Child’s Play movies and TV shows in order

Watching the Child’s Play movies and TV shows in order is quite simple, as the chronological and release date order are the same. The only outlier is Child’s Play (2019). Since it’s a standalone reboot unconnected to the TV show and prior films, it can be watched anytime. There is also one canon short film viewers can enjoy. See below for the release date/chronological order of the Child’s Play franchise:

  • Child’s Play (1988)
  • Child’s Play 2 (1990)
  • Child’s Play 3 (1991)
  • Bride of Chucky (1998)
  • Seed of Chucky (2004)
  • Chucky’s Vacation Slides (2005)
  • Curse of Chucky (2013)
  • Cult of Chucky (2017)
  • Chucky (2021)

Where to watch the Child’s Play movies and TV shows online

Check out our list below to find out where to stream the Child’s Play movies and TV shows online in the United States!

  1. Child's Play

    Child's Play

    1988

    # 1

    An innocent-looking doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who refuses to die.

  2. Child's Play 2

    Child's Play 2

    1990

    # 2

    Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.

  3. Child's Play 3

    Child's Play 3

    1991

    # 3

    Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.

  4. Bride of Chucky

    Bride of Chucky

    1998

    # 4

    Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound.

  5. Seed of Chucky

    Seed of Chucky

    2004

    # 5

    This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

  6. Curse of Chucky

    Curse of Chucky

    2013

    # 6

    After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

  7. Cult of Chucky

    Cult of Chucky

    2017

    # 7

    Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.

  8. Child's Play

    Child's Play

    2019

    # 8

    Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.

  9. Chucky

    Chucky

    2021

    # 9

    After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.