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I don't want to dive into list spoilers, but I will say that "Did I enjoy the movie?" is the primary driving criteria for where I rank it. And yes, I agree with you that some movies can get too artsy, in the sense that they sacrifice enjoyment for other concepts. I don't like those movies either. I put Pet Sematary at #30 and Sleepaway Camp at #29, because while Sleepaway Camp is way more problematic and offended me, at least it was enjoyable for at least 50% of the movie, while I couldn't think of a single upside at all to Pet Sematary.

That said, sometimes my immediate reaction differs significantly to when I actually start ranking. I cool on certain things, I think about the movie in a different way, some things get better or worse with time, etc. I rate every movie on a grade and that helps too. To me, the C- movies are all...pretty much bunched together, which means a movie at #18 is really not all that different from a movie at #24, even though that's a 6-point gap.

I think Child's Play is at the tail-end of C- for me. Enjoyable, but when compared to other C- movies for me, I just put it lower. Remove the opener (seriously, why is it even there?) and it could have been more on the top-end of a C+ for me. As I mentioned in my write-up, I feel like if you do a "mundane object becomes evil" concept, you have to sell me why the mundane object would be interesting. Having the child match the overall physical profile of Chucky was interesting...but I had literally no reason to believe that because of the intro. And it's not like the rest of the movie was subtle about Chucky being possessed either!