Director Maria Lease (“Silk Stalking”) wrote the screenplay based upon a story that she cooked up with Rod Nave and Peter Sutcliffe (neither of whom have any other produced credits), and on the surface, it seems like a typical coattail-riding movie. The film used various ways to portray Chucky, including radio-controlled animatronics operated by up to nine puppeteers, extras of short stature, and child actors. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [14][12] The cut footage, shown only in production stills and the film's script, would have featured Charles Lee Ray stalking a drunk woman as a human only to discover it to be Mike Norris on an undercover sting operation, Andy showing Chucky around his room and finding a photograph of his deceased father, John healing an infant through a Voodoo ritual, and Chucky unsuccessfully trying to break into Andy's room at the mental hospital and tricking a mentally-ill girl named Mona into carrying him into the ward. ? [12][14] John Lithgow was considered to play Charles Lee Ray before Brad Dourif was hired in the role. Dolly Dearest, <