Just watched it May Contain Spoilers

After Curse, I was literally expecting for Cult to go the route it did, mostly because Curse was boring as hell and pointless to me. This one, while hysterical in some scenes and being more entertaining than Curse was, I still agree with you that this movie was more pointless than Curse. The Voodoo for Dummies thing was just a callback to Bride of Chucky which I chuckled at, but at the same time, the fact that he can just split his soul and do whatever now, takes this once good slasher villain and makes motive kind of pointless now.

The first five movies, his goal is to transfer his soul out of the doll. By the end of Seed, he's about to finally complete that task by transferring his soul into the limo driver, but then he decides not to. Think about it. Chucky has spent 16-17 years trying to get out of the doll, and what happened leading up to that point? He spent 10 years chasing after a 6 year old boy up until he was 16 trying to get into his body, then turns his ex-girlfriend into a doll and winds up having a kid with her, he's impregnated actress Jennifer Tilly with his semen, and is about to possess the body of her limo driver. Realizing how complicated everything has gotten since the first movie, Chucky decides he'd rather take his chances as a doll.

Curse, to me at first, seemed like it was setting up a new chapter of Chucky movies where he tries to go back to those who escaped his wrath, previous survivors, and kill them all. I thought that's why he went after Nica, and why he went after Andy six months later. But apparently, his goal wasn't to kill them but possess. He wanted Nica and Andy to be possessed by him, even though most of Curse he actively tried to kill the shit out of Nica. So, now his goal is to track down previous survivors, split his soul to possess them, make them kill for him, and then...what? But I thought he'd rather stay in a doll? So, why is he doing this? Because being possessed is worse than death? Maybe, but that's still stupid.

The thing that irks me the most is the incompetence of the police in these movies. I know this is a horror movie, so obviously the police would not do a good job, but the police in these movies are absolutely retarded. Let's talk about Bride for a minute. Charles Lee Ray's fingerprints are found at a crime scene, ten years after his supposed death. In New Jersey where his corpse was buried, police would find that he was in fact dead, but a doll that was once impounded as evidence from Child's Play 3, is found with blood oozing out of it next to his corpse, and the DNA would match Charles Lee Ray's dna as well. So obviously, this doll would be kept in evidence this time, right? Maybe investigated, or maybe people will start listening to Andy, Kyle, his mom and others? Nope, Hollywood is going to buy that doll and use it as a prop for a horror movie based on that doll's supposed murder spree. How the hell does that work in police work?

Now you get Cult of Chucky, a psychiatric hospital that will for sure have security cameras showing three dolls up and about killing people. Oh wait, the last Chucky doll may have destroyed the video footage off-screen like he did in Curse, off-screen. But even then, Chucky expects police to think the nurse and the multiple personality guy to have committed the murders, yet the one victim had his head crushed in with a red heel worn by the paraplegic, who is now missing. And how can a paraplegic stomp his head in when she's FUCKING PARAPLEGIC? And how do they expect to write off the dolls as being not possessed when the doll Andy caved in clearly has blood and shit that will, almost 30 years later, show that its DNA matches the once dead serial killer Charles Lee Ray.

While I love the first movie (which was re-written by other people who weren't Don Mancini), these sequels that Don Mancini wrote and directed have seriously gotten fucking ridiculous.