Believe It or Not, 'Chucky' Has a Great Pop Music Soundtrack
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Pop music might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of horror movies. It really might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Child's Play/Chucky franchise of horror movies, which follows a murderous toy doll with the spirit of a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray trapped inside of him. But what if I told you that that uber-successful horror franchise's first foray into TV, the new Chucky series, featured a soundtrack that went heavy on pop and indie pop...and it totally worked?
Part of the reason it works so well (we're talking songs by artists like the inescapable Billie Eilish and the underrated pop star Kim Petras) is that for the first time in the 33-year-old franchise, Chucky follows a group of mid-teenagers. These kids are moody, looking for their place in the world, and live, unquestionably, in 2021; the music stylings of Billie Eilish and others others of her ilk just feels right in this setting.
Which is not to say there's a whole lot of updating to Chucky the maniacal serial-killing doll himself; he's still voiced, as always, by actor Brad Dourif, still wise-cracking any chance he can get, and still a danger to be in the same room as quite literally any human being.
The Chucky show is great in ways that are almost surprising—it taps into both lanes of what the franchise has always done so well: horror, with genuinely jarring kills in each episode, and humor, with Chucky a character that really cracks you up himself and brings out the best in other characters as well. This is a story with tension, and showrunner Don Mancini —who created Child's Play back in 1988 and has written every movie since, outside of the 2019 reboot—clearly knows how important pop music is to the youth of today.
Here's every song from Chucky Season 1.
Episode 1:
Billie Eilish – “Copycat”
Martin Wave x VAAL – “Chores”
Madalen Duke – “How Villains Are Made”
Kim Petras – “Personal Hell”
The Exotics – “Come With Me”
Davey Philips – “Hickory Meadows”
Body Of Light – “Fear”
VOW – “Blue Bird”
Episode 2:
The Kac-Ties – “Mr. Were-wolf”
Extreme Music – “Velocity”
Resident Aliens – “Bandit”
Electric Youth – “Modern Fears”
Eddie Cuesta & Howard Lambert feat Scout – “Back To My House”
Boy Harsher – “Fate”
Episode 3:
On Camera Performance of “Don’t Fear The Reaper”
The Illusions – “Just Be You”
Big Big Trouble “Amazon”
Romy x Planningtorock – “Let It Happen”
Sliink, Twrk, DJ Green Lantern – “Trifecta (We Came To Party”
Black Devil Disco Club – "H" Friend (Free Disco Permanent Midnight remix)
SeamlessR – “Momentum “
Episode 4
The Go-Go’s – “We Got The Beat”
Pretty Lungs – “Control”
Jim Vining – “I Need Song”
APM Music – “Bring A Smile”
RL Grime – “Pressure”
Episode 5
LAUV – “Modern Loneliness”
Francis X and the Bushmen – “Church of the Mirror”
The Fadd – “Satisfy Me”
Modern Art – “Hello Goodbye”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”
Episode 6
Shaed – “Trampoline”
Sad Dad – “I’m Gonna Get It”
Panic – “Moon Kissed”
Modern Art – “Fatal Crash”
Score cues from “Cape Fear”
Episode 7
The Go-Go’s – “We Got The Beat”
Yan Wagner – “Blacker”
New Bums – “The Killers and Me”
Mike and Grady – “Cut You Down”
Episode 8
Billie Eilish – “The End Of The World”
Rob Zombie – “Sick Bubblegum”
Zucker and Cutler – “You Were Good To Me”
Ingrid Michaelson – “Light Me Up”
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