Chucky

Director(s)Don Mancini

Production year2021

Genre(s)Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Approx. running minutes45m

CastZackary Arthur, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Teo Briones, Brad Dourif, Lexa Doig, Barbara Alyn Woods, Michael Therriault, Rachelle Casseus, Carina Battrick, Dermott Downs, Don Mancini, Nick Zigler, Sarah Acosta, Kim Merced Garland, Mitch Engel, Mallory Westfall, Joseph LoDuca, Colin Hoult, Lisa Grootenboer, Bonnie Zane, Craig Sandells

Chucky

CHUCKY is a US horror drama series; in this episode, high school student Jake buys a second hand doll which soon starts ...

CHUCKY is a US horror drama series; in this episode, high school student Jake buys a second hand doll which soon starts taking revenge against people who harm or insult him.

strong language, violence, homophobia

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as a man being electrocuted to death.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

discrimination

There is homophobic violence when a man punches his gay son. There is use of the term 'fag'.

additional issues

There are also moderate sex references (to 'Pokemon porn'), drug references (to smoking 'weed') and injury detail (such as blood spurting from a frog when it is being dissected).

strong violence, language, homophobia, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as blood spurting when a woman is pushed onto several upright kitchen knives in a dishwasher.

threat and horror

There is strong threat, such as a demonic doll threatening to stab a girl with the large knife it is holding.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

discrimination

There is homophobic violence when a youth's father punches him for admitting he is gay. The terms 'fag' and 'queer' are used.

injury detail

There is strong injury detail, such as a boy drooling blood after biting an apple in which a blade has been embedded, and a woman's bloodied corpse lying in a pool of blood.

additional issues

There are also moderate sex references such as a blogger referring to 'slutty zombie' Halloween costumes. There is a drug reference when a woman tells trick-or-treaters, "You know, when I was your age, I was high as a kite."

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as a man repeatedly stabbing another man in the chest and a boy being repeatedly stabbed in the back. It is implied that a young boy murders his mother by stabbing.

additional issues

Strong threat includes a girl screaming in terror as a demonic doll threatens to stab her to death, and a boy and his mother cowering in fear of an armed stalker in their home. There is strong language ('f**k'). There is drug misuse, such as a girl lighting and smoking a joint. There is also moderate injury detail, such as a dead woman lying on a small pool of blood.

strong language, violence, injury detail, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence when a demonic doll throws a scalpel into a man's back then repeatedly stabs his chest with syringes.

threat and horror

There is strong threat when a girl falls through a ballustrade and an attacker tries to slash her dangling legs with a knife.

language

There is strong language ('f**k).

injury detail

Strong injury detail includes maggots crawling a long a large slit in a dead man's throat and a bloody stump on one of the man's wrists. There are bloody images in the aftermath of violence.

additional issues

There is brief drug misuse when a young woman smokes a joint.

strong bloody violence, sexualised violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong bloody violence, such as a woman being stabbed in the eyeball, a man having his lower jaw hacked off and a woman delighting in repeatedly and bloodily stabbing another woman.

injury detail

Strong bloody injury detail includes a woman's decapitated body, and sight of blood spurts as woman is stabbed in the chest.

additional issues

There is also strong language ('f**k'), and strong threat such as a man brandishing a large knife at a woman.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes of strong violence which include throat slashings, stabbings and the mutilation of a supernatural doll’s head with a blow torch.

injury detail

There are scenes of strong injury detail which include mutilated bodies and severed limbs.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat in which characters are terrorised and held captive by supernatural dolls wielding knives. There is use of strong language ('f**k') and use of milder terms ('bitch', 'shit', 'God', 'Jesus', 'hell').

strong gory violence, horror, language

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes stabbing and repeated heavy blows resulting in bloody injuries, which are depicted in gory detail.

threat and horror

Scenes of horror include people being menaced by possessed characters brandishing knives and other weapons.

language

There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'bitch', 'shit', 'asshole', 'piss' and 'dick'.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references and suicide references. There is also brief drug misuse.

strong gory violence, language, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are moments of strong gory violence which include throat slashings, stabbings, a scene where the head of a supernatural doll is shot to pieces and another's eyes pop out of their skull whilst being choked to death.

threat and horror

There are scenes of strong threat in which characters are terrorised by knife wielding supernatural dolls, held captive, bound and drugged.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k') and use of milder terms ('bitch', 'dick', 'asshole', 'shit', ‘pissed’, 'God', 'Jesus', ‘Christ’, 'damn').

additional issues

There are moderate sex references. There is discriminatory use of the work 'twink' towards a gay teenager. There are passing references to suicide.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

strong language, violence, gore, threat, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

During a brief flashback, a woman decapitates a villainous doll. In another sequence, a character shoots at a doll's neck, causing its head to fly off and roll across the ground in a darkly comic manner. There is also sight of a large bomb explosion featuring billowing plumes of green smoke. Other moments include undetailed stabbings during a flashback resulting in blood pooling out of a character's mouth and blood pouring onto the ground. Gory images include infrequent and brief sight of severed heads. There is also sight of a wound as a result of a blunt force injury.

threat and horror

A murderous supernaturally possessed doll threatens a group of teenagers by sending phone calls and gaining access to their home. There is occasional knife and gun threat throughout. In one sequence, the doll threatens to kill the protagonists and detonates a homemade bomb which results in the off-screen death of a child.

language

Strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as a middle finger gesture and milder terms including 'dick', 'prick', 'pissed', 'shit', 'screw', 'Jesus Christ' and 'hell'.

drugs

Infrequent scenes of drug misuse include teenage characters snorting crushed prescription drugs. In one sequence, a character smokes a cannabis joint. Drug misuse is not promoted by the work as a whole.

strong language, violence, bloody images, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes a throat slashing and shooting, with accompanying bloodshed and aftermath bloody detail. A character finds a severed doll’s head on the bloodstained sheets of her bed.

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘shit’, ‘asshole’, ‘screw’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.

drugs

A prescription pill is ground to a powder and snorted.

additional issues

There is moderate threat and horror, including jump scares, which are frequently embedded in the dark comic tone of the work.

strong language, violence, gore, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence features a character’s heart being punched out through his chest and stabbings in a series of clips from horror films, which are accompanied by blood spurts and aftermath gore. Moderate violence includes a strangling.

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘screw’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.

drugs

There are references to a teenage character’s addiction to prescription drugs, and scenes in which she struggles when unable to obtain them.

additional issues

There is moderate knife threat. A priest makes oblique references to the intimacy between two teenage boys as he declares his disapproval of their relationship. The work does not endorse such discriminatory attitudes.

strong bloody violence, sexual threat, language

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man's throat is slit, with sight of gushing blood. A woman is stabbed repeatedly in the stomach by a possessed doll, resulting in blood spurts and smears over her body, as well as blood pooling below her. A man is shot several times, leaving bloody bullet wounds in his head and body. There is a brief flashback to a woman's burning body falling from a high building.

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'ass', 'dick', 'bugger' and 'Jesus'. There is use of racist language ('dago') which is condemned.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man with his trousers down pushes a woman onto a bed and makes unwanted sexual advances toward her but she easily escapes.

additional issues

Scenes of threat include a woman tied up and gagged, and moments of gun and knife threat. A man mocks two non-binary characters over their chosen use of pronouns, but his behaviour is condemned by other characters. There are brief verbal references to threesomes and oral sex. A woman puts her hand beneath the dress of another to caress her inner thigh and, it is implied, her vagina; these acts are hidden beneath clothing or off-screen.

strong violence, gore, language, horror

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence features a character’s heart being punched out through his chest during a flashback. There is also a brief torture sequence in which a villainous doll flays a man’s leg while he is alive. Other moments include repeated slashings with a knife, resulting in blood spurts. There is also accompanying bloody aftermath detail and sight of severed doll limbs.

threat and horror

In one sequence, a pair of teenagers walk through a darkly lit forest filled with severed doll heads impaled on spikes.

language

Strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms including 'bitch', 'bullshit', 'shit', 'God', 'Jesus', 'damn' and 'hell'.

additional issues

There are infrequent verbal and visual references to a teenage character’s addiction to prescription drugs, however, she is given emotional support by her friend who warns her about the dangers of misuse. A teenage boy reads a passage in the Bible which denounces homosexuality.

strong language, violence, gory images

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes a throat slashing, shadowy shots of pieces of flesh being cut from a captive man’s leg by a demon doll and a character being thrown from a high window. There are blood spurts and sight of gory aftermath injury detail. Moderate violence includes undetailed beatings and a person being blown backwards by a large blast of flame.

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’ and ‘shit’, and rude middle finger gestures.

additional issues

There is moderate gun threat. There are infrequent drug references.

strong violence, gore, horror, language

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of gory violence include a knife being thrown into a person's eye, resulting in large spurts of blood. We also see a doll hit by a car and exploding in blood and another doll being repeatedly shot, resulting in blood and gore. There is a comic tone to many of these scenes. A teenage girl is thrown from a high window and impaled on a spiked fence off-screen.

threat and horror

Scenes of horror include an exorcism is performed in a church with characters thrashing, levitating and vomiting throughout the ritual. A person explodes in slow motion, with sight of gushing blood and a severed head flying through the air and later seen in close-up.

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'cocks', 'shit', 'asshole' and 'Jesus'. There is also use of the middle finger gesture.

additional issues

Scenes of threat include characters being held at gun- and knifepoint. There are moderate verbal references to sex and to whether two teenage boys have lost their virginity. A teenage girl misuses prescription drugs and briefly suggests she has considered taking an overdose.

strong gory violence

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of strong gory violence include a woman being cut in half with a chainsaw, from her head through to her body, resulting in sprays of blood and the two halves of her corpse falling apart in gruesome fashion, and a boy bludgeoning a man to death with a toy doll. There are also bloody stabbings, throat slashings, a stabbing through an eyeball, shootings with sight of blood spurts, and an electrocution that cause a man to catch fire. We see a heart being ripped from a teenage boy's chest, with sight of gore and internal organs. A woman is stabbed by two teenage boys, but the knife wounds are not seen.

additional issues

There are scenes of supernatural threat in which people are possessed by evil spirits and mystic rituals are conducted. There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'asshole', 'God' and 'damn'.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, as well as gun violence, and are accompanied by strong gory injury detail.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror. There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'bitch', 'crap' and 'shit'. There are also scenes in which people use drugs.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, as well as shootings. Violence is accompanied by gory injury detail.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror. There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'piss', 'crap', 'asshole' and 'shit'. There are also moderate sex references.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and shootings. Violence is accompanied by gory injury detail.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror, and there is strong language ('f**k'); milder terms include 'bitch', 'ass', 'dickhead' and 'shit'. There are also moderate sex references and drug references.

strong gory violence

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A woman is possessed using a voodoo doll, and is forced to stab and slash herself repeatedly, before flaying her skin with kitchen utensils and burning herself. Violent scenes are accompanied by strong gory images.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror throughout. There is also use of strong language ('f**k'); milder terms include 'bitch', 'slut', 'shit' and 'balls'. There are mild sex references.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

02/05/2022

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified date11/04/2022

LanguageEnglish

violence

There is strong violence, such as a man being electrocuted to death.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

discrimination

There is homophobic violence when a man punches his gay son. There is use of the term 'fag'.

additional issues

There are also moderate sex references (to 'Pokemon porn'), drug references (to smoking 'weed') and injury detail (such as blood spurting from a frog when it is being dissected).

strong language, violence, homophobia

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as a man being electrocuted to death.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

discrimination

There is homophobic violence when a man punches his gay son. There is use of the term 'fag'.

additional issues

There are also moderate sex references (to 'Pokemon porn'), drug references (to smoking 'weed') and injury detail (such as blood spurting from a frog when it is being dissected).

strong violence, language, homophobia, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as blood spurting when a woman is pushed onto several upright kitchen knives in a dishwasher.

threat and horror

There is strong threat, such as a demonic doll threatening to stab a girl with the large knife it is holding.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

discrimination

There is homophobic violence when a youth's father punches him for admitting he is gay. The terms 'fag' and 'queer' are used.

injury detail

There is strong injury detail, such as a boy drooling blood after biting an apple in which a blade has been embedded, and a woman's bloodied corpse lying in a pool of blood.

additional issues

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as a man repeatedly stabbing another man in the chest and a boy being repeatedly stabbed in the back. It is implied that a young boy murders his mother by stabbing.

additional issues

strong language, violence, injury detail, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence when a demonic doll throws a scalpel into a man's back then repeatedly stabs his chest with syringes.

threat and horror

There is strong threat when a girl falls through a ballustrade and an attacker tries to slash her dangling legs with a knife.

language

There is strong language ('f**k).

injury detail

Strong injury detail includes maggots crawling a long a large slit in a dead man's throat and a bloody stump on one of the man's wrists. There are bloody images in the aftermath of violence.

additional issues

There is brief drug misuse when a young woman smokes a joint.

strong bloody violence, sexualised violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong bloody violence, such as a woman being stabbed in the eyeball, a man having his lower jaw hacked off and a woman delighting in repeatedly and bloodily stabbing another woman.

injury detail

Strong bloody injury detail includes a woman's decapitated body, and sight of blood spurts as woman is stabbed in the chest.

additional issues

There is also strong language ('f**k'), and strong threat such as a man brandishing a large knife at a woman.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes of strong violence which include throat slashings, stabbings and the mutilation of a supernatural doll’s head with a blow torch.

injury detail

There are scenes of strong injury detail which include mutilated bodies and severed limbs.

additional issues

strong gory violence, horror, language

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes stabbing and repeated heavy blows resulting in bloody injuries, which are depicted in gory detail.

threat and horror

Scenes of horror include people being menaced by possessed characters brandishing knives and other weapons.

language

There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'bitch', 'shit', 'asshole', 'piss' and 'dick'.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references and suicide references. There is also brief drug misuse.

strong gory violence, language, threat

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

There are scenes of strong threat in which characters are terrorised by knife wielding supernatural dolls, held captive, bound and drugged.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k') and use of milder terms ('bitch', 'dick', 'asshole', 'shit', ‘pissed’, 'God', 'Jesus', ‘Christ’, 'damn').

additional issues

There are moderate sex references. There is discriminatory use of the work 'twink' towards a gay teenager. There are passing references to suicide.

strong language, violence, gore, threat, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

language

Strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as a middle finger gesture and milder terms including 'dick', 'prick', 'pissed', 'shit', 'screw', 'Jesus Christ' and 'hell'.

drugs

strong language, violence, bloody images, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes a throat slashing and shooting, with accompanying bloodshed and aftermath bloody detail. A character finds a severed doll’s head on the bloodstained sheets of her bed.

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘shit’, ‘asshole’, ‘screw’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.

drugs

A prescription pill is ground to a powder and snorted.

additional issues

There is moderate threat and horror, including jump scares, which are frequently embedded in the dark comic tone of the work.

strong language, violence, gore, drug misuse

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘screw’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.

drugs

There are references to a teenage character’s addiction to prescription drugs, and scenes in which she struggles when unable to obtain them.

additional issues

strong bloody violence, sexual threat, language

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'ass', 'dick', 'bugger' and 'Jesus'. There is use of racist language ('dago') which is condemned.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man with his trousers down pushes a woman onto a bed and makes unwanted sexual advances toward her but she easily escapes.

additional issues

strong violence, gore, language, horror

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

In one sequence, a pair of teenagers walk through a darkly lit forest filled with severed doll heads impaled on spikes.

language

Strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms including 'bitch', 'bullshit', 'shit', 'God', 'Jesus', 'damn' and 'hell'.

additional issues

strong language, violence, gory images

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’ and ‘shit’, and rude middle finger gestures.

additional issues

There is moderate gun threat. There are infrequent drug references.

strong violence, gore, horror, language

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'cocks', 'shit', 'asshole' and 'Jesus'. There is also use of the middle finger gesture.

additional issues

strong gory violence

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

additional issues

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, as well as gun violence, and are accompanied by strong gory injury detail.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror. There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'bitch', 'crap' and 'shit'. There are also scenes in which people use drugs.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, as well as shootings. Violence is accompanied by gory injury detail.

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror. There is strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms including 'piss', 'crap', 'asshole' and 'shit'. There are also moderate sex references.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violent scenes include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and shootings. Violence is accompanied by gory injury detail.

additional issues

strong gory violence

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

additional issues

There are scenes of strong threat and horror throughout. There is also use of strong language ('f**k'); milder terms include 'bitch', 'slut', 'shit' and 'balls'. There are mild sex references.

Director(s)Don Mancini

Production year2021

Genre(s)Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Approx. running minutes45m

Classified Date:

02/09/2024

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

15/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

02/05/2022

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified Date:

11/04/2022

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

Classified date11/04/2022

LanguageEnglish