Don Mancini

Having been a horror fan since his childhood, Mancini's inspiration for Child's Play were films like Trilogy of Terror and the "Talky Tina" episode of The Twilight Zone, stating that he knew the killer doll trope, but realized it had never been done as a feature-length film in the age of animatronics. As a film student at UCLA in the mid-1980s, Mancini was amused by the hysteria surrounding the Cabbage Patch Kids, and that the ubiquitous dolls were disappearing from toy shelves and prompting physical fights between parents. Mancini's father had worked in the advertising industry all his life, and he knew how effective marketing could result in consumer bedlam. Based on this, Mancini wanted to write a dark satire about how marketing affected children, with his first effort being as the co-writer of Child's Play (1988).[3][4]

Mancini was the executive producer of Bride of Chucky and Cult of Chucky, the latter in which he directed along with Seed of Chucky, as well as Curse of Chucky, all in the Child's Play franchise.

In 2007, he won the EyeGore award for career contributions to the horror genre. He sometimes goes by the pseudonym Kit Dubois. Mancini attended St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, University of California in Los Angeles, and the Columbia University (Brad Dourif was among his teachers[5]) in New York City.[6][7][3]

Mancini wrote all seven films in the original Child's Play film series, and directed the last three, and was also the creator, writer, and director of the Chucky TV series.[8] He was not involved with the 2019 reboot.[4]

• Don Mancini at IMDb
• Campblood.org Interview with Don Mancini