After making a name for himself with films including The Postman Strikes Back, Bless This House, The Bride With White Hair, and Warriors of Virtue, Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu made an indelible mark on the horror genre with Bride of Chucky, the first Chucky movie to come along since Child’s Play 3 seven years prior. Released Halloween 1998, the horror-comedy from writer Don Mancini took the franchise down a bold new path, picking up the self-referential torch from Craven’s Scream and forever changing the course of the Chucky saga.
It was The Bride With White Hair that led to Ronny Yu landing the gig directing Bride of Chucky, and it was Bride of Chucky that led to Yu directing Freddy vs. Jason just a few years later. Yu proved to be an inspired choice for the Friday the 13th meets Nightmare on Elm Street franchise mashup, with 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason scaring up $116 million at the box office.
It seemed that Ronny Yu was primed and ready to become the next big voice in horror in the wake of taking over the Child’s Play, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises, but Freddy vs. Jason ended up being the last horror movie Yu ever made. Yu has directed only two movies since 2003: 2006’s Fearless and 2013’s Saving General Yang. He did, however, direct an episode of the anthology television series “Fear Itself” in 2008 titled “Family Man.”
Where has Ronny Yu been in the past decade? One person who’s asking himself that very question is Freddy vs. Jason star Robert Englund, who tells Dread Central in a new interview this month that he’s hungry for Ronny Yu’s return to the world of horror filmmaking.
“I’d really love to see something new from Ronnie Yu,” Englund tells the outlet. “Not only did he make Freddy vs. Jason work, but I remember being at a film festival in France years ago, sitting with John Landis at nine in the morning, sipping those big bowl cups of French coffee, watching Bride of Chucky.”
Englund adds, “Ronnie has such a gift for that edgy, graphic-novel-style horror.”
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‘Bride of Chucky’
