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He is gay.

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[9][10][11] He has described consciously incorporating queer elements into the Child's Play films; [10] his experiences as a gay man, including receiving bullying and abuse from his father because of it, informed Mancini's creative direction on the Chucky TV series, which features a gay protagonist. Like in his earlier movies, Mancini is pushing new narratives and identities for his characters in Chucky.

His protagonist, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), is a year- old gay boy and doll. The most obvious way that Mancini infuses his films with queerness, however, is by intentionally including LGBTQ + characters in major and minor roles.

Don Mancini's slasher franchise Child's Play included queer subtext that was central to his own personal life and experiences as a gay man. Vincent Bec looks at Don Mancini’s queer inclusion in the Child’s Play series, particularly as it relates to the concept of being GenderQueer and non-binary genders. Mancini is one of few openly gay writers and directors of a film within the slasher sub-genre.

While this may not be overtly apparent in his earlier works, it has become a key factor for the Child's Play franchise overall, and more so in the first movie as it has aged. On his sixth birthday, Karen purchases a Good Guy doll that goes by the name Chucky. Right before dying, Ray performed a voodoo ritual that allowed his soul to enter the body of the same doll Karen purchased for Andy.

This particular Good Guy doll became the primary antagonist of eight feature-length films, and an upcoming television series slated for Underneath that messaging, it's about his personal struggles as a gay man, his family dynamic, and loneliness. As the franchise headed into the s, it became more apparent that Chucky was destined to become an LGBTQ icon; his films are queer-coded slasher movies unlike any other.

Developer of the television series Hannibal , Bryan Fuller , spoke on the fact that his characters were not initially queer, but he and the other writers listened to how fans wanted them to be portrayed. Mancini stated that when he looks back on the film, the fact that he made Karen a single mother—and left Andy without a father—was his subconscious inclusion of his own experience as a gay man, and the complex relationship he had with his own father.

By not giving Andy a father figure, Mancini wrote in a narrative of loneliness and the desire to have someone to relate to when an individual is rejected by a family member for something like being gay. As the franchise progressed, Mancini embraced his identity as a gay man, and included queer icons such as Jennifer Tilly Bride Of Chucky in leading roles.

While the conscious effort of including queerness in the franchise did not exist until the release of Bride Of Chucky , the subconscious inclusion of queer subtext in was integral in establishing its future. Its queer subtext is easy to overlook, but Mancini's story and the trajectory of the franchise from subtext to unwaveringly queer installments has solidified its initial meaning and provide further context for Chucky fans, especially those within the LGBTQ community who can identify with Mancini's personal experiences.