 Young Andy Barclay sees a commercial for a  Good Guy  doll on TV, and asks his mother for one for his birthday. At work, Andy s mom and her friend discover a peddler selling one for a low price, and she buys it. What she doesn t know is that the particular doll contains the spirit of Charles Lee Ray, aka  The Lakeshore Strangler , who died at the hands of police the night before and had transferred his spirit to the doll by voodoo. That night, Andy s babysitter is pushed from their 5th-floor window to her death, and only young Andy knows that  Chucky  - the doll - is responsible for that a death and a series of murders that follow. Worse than that, the soul of Charles Lee Ray is trying to get out of the doll s body - and take over Andy s...