'Chucky' Returns! Check out the First Teaser for the New Series From Creator Don Mancini

Creator Don Mancini’s slasher doll revival series has been on our radar since the rumors started! Now its finally time to welcome the original foul mouthed, murderous doll back to the small screen. EW exclusively revealed today that Chucky series will premiere Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. on USA and SYFY.

The series is set in a small American town that descends into chaos after a vintage ‘Good Guy’ doll turns up at a neighborhood garage sale. The whole town is forced to deal with a series of horrifying murders that start to expose all the town’s dirty little secrets. As the town deals with it’s own monsters, people from Chucky’s past begin to threaten to expose the truth of his mysterious origins.

“The main character is a 14-year-old gay boy who’s bullied and sort of lost after the recent death of his mother,” says Mancini. “He’s a young artist [making] sculptures with doll parts. He finds Chucky at a yard sale and buys him, but it turns out that he gets much more than he bargained for.”

The new faces to Chucky are stars Zackary Arthur (Transparent), Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Björgvin Arnarson, Lexa Doig (Jason X) and Devon Sawa (Final Destination). Returning to the franchise are fan favorites Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Christine Elise, and Brad Dourif, the one (and only) person who can pull off that infamous Chucky laugh.

Bringing the film and the series together included getting the perfect look for the doll, which is modeled on the version seen in 1990’s Child’s Play 2. “Over the years, I’ve heard that the consensus fan favorite among all the movies is Child’s Play 2,” says Mancini. “I think one of the reasons for that is how Chucky looked in that movie and how the late director John Lafia, who passed away last year, shot Chucky. Our goal with the series was to bring Chucky’s look precisely back to that. Tony Gardner and Peter Chevako (special effects artists responsible for creating the show’s puppets) have done a great job. I think fans are really going to love that.”

Franchise creator Don Mancini, who co-wrote the original film in the movie series, and wrote and directed many of the sequels, is helming the series as showrunner. “One of the things I wanted to do was bring [the franchise] back to its Child’s Play roots and have the protagonists [be] kids. But since, with the first couple of movies, we’d already delved into having little kids I wanted to explore something different, so this time we’re exploring young teenagers.”

“One of the things that we pride ourselves on, and I think makes our franchise singular, is that we have spun a relatively consistent and coherent narrative over the course of 33 years and seven films and now eight episodes of television,” says Mancini.

“I think that’s one of the things that our fans like about the Chucky franchise. I deliberately ended Cult of Chucky on a series of cliffhangers, major cliffhangers, because I knew a TV series would be the ideal place to accommodate delving into the ramifications. So we begin the series introducing our new story, our new milieu, and then we start to bring the veteran characters into the story, and it all comes together for a big showdown.”

You can check out the teaser for the series below and Chucky will premiere Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. on USA and SYFY. As always be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all thing horror, sci-fi and more.