Slasher EG5: Bride Of Chucky (1998)

Bride Of Chucky

Ronny Yu (1998)

BBFC 15, MPAA R

Film Opening Length: 

Budget: $25m
UK/US/World Box Office: ?, $32.3m, $50.6m

Production Companies: Midwinter Production Inc., Universal Pictures
Distributors: Universal Pictures

LINKS:
IMDB, RottenTomatoes (Tomatometer 44%, Audience 46%), BoxOfficeMojo, Wiki

Trailer for 'Bride Of Chucky':
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COMPANIES/IDENTS
There is only one film ident shown in this film opening, which is for 'Universal Studios', one of the 'big six' conglomerates. This is common for the slasher genre to only have one film ident shown. 

OPENING SHOT
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The opening shot is a tracking LS/ELS of what you can denote as a traditional bricked building with the American flag attached to the roof of an archway. This denotes the setting to the audience as the US and connotes that the setting is quite traditional, formal and patriotic. You can denote from this shot that rain is pouring, that there is thunder and lightning (from the flashing effects on the shot) and that it is night time. 
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TITLES
There is a lot of titles shown in this film opening. Before the opening shot, there are two intertitles shown, in this order:
1. Universal Pictures presents
2. A David Kirschner production
3. A Ronny Yu film

After these three titles, the first scene of the film takes place. There are no more titles until this scene has ended (when the bride of Chucky walks off with the pieces of the doll Chucky, that the policeman had stolen from the 'Lockport Police Dept. Evidence Depository'. Here is the order of titles after this scene has ended:

1. 4 Main actors
2. Main Title: Bride Of Chucky
3. 3 Actors including the voice of chucky
4. Co-Producer
5. Casting by
6. Costume Designer
7. Opening Title Song Performed by 
8. Music Supervisors
9. Music by
10. Chucky and tiffany dolls created by
11. Based on characters created by
12. Chucky and tiffany puppet effects created by
13. Edited by
14. Production designer
15. Director of Photography
16. Executive Producers
17. Produced by
18. Written by
19. Directed by

IDENTIFYING ANY PROTAGONISTS
The first character shown is a policeman. It is stereotypical that the first character to be shown in a slasher horror film is the scream queen/scream king (person who gets killed by the killer). Proving this point to be correct, this policeman character in this film is killed by the killer (the bride of Chucky). The bride of Chucky is slowly introduced through close up shots of her feet and legs, to create a sense of narrative enigma (Barthes) for the audience of who this character is. You don't see her face until after she has killed the policeman character.   

SOUND/GENRE SIGNIFICATION
At the very start of the film opening there is a lot of use of diegetic sounds to create impact on the audience, these sounds are thunder and rain. 

SHOT VARIETY
NARRATIVE
MISE-EN-SCENE FOR EXPOSITION
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