Revealing mistake: When Nica goes to investigate the screams in the first part of the movie, as she opens and closes the door she appears to be moving in a way that implies she is standing and not sitting in her wheelchair, this completely contradicts her being a paraplegic.
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Plot summary
Directed by: Don Mancini
Starring: Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, A Martinez, Danielle Bisutti
In 2013, evil killer Good Guy doll Charles Lee Ray/Chucky (Brad Dourif) is mailed to the home of paraplegic Nica (Fiona Dourif) and her mother Sarah (Chantal Quesnelle). That night, Nica hears Sarah scream and finds her dead on the floor in front of the elevator. The next day, Nica's sister Barb (Danielle Bisutti), her husband Ian (Brennan Elliott), daughter Alice (Summer Howell), nanny Jill (Maitland McConnell), and priest Father Frank (A Martinez) arrive to spend time with Nica and comfort her. Barb tries to get Nica to sell Sarah's house and have Nica moves into an assisted living facility, but Nica refuses to leave her home.
Nica tries to give Chucky to Alice, but Chucky isn't in the living room. Alice and Jill find him upstairs. Nica invites Father Frank to stay for dinner with the rest of them. Nica and Alice cook a vegetarian chili in the kitchen. While Nica and Alice set the table in the dining room, Chucky puts rat poison in one of the chili bowls, but Nica returns to the kitchen before he can poison the other bowls. Father Frank eats the poisoned chili and starts feeling sick. He leaves the house and tries to return to the church, but is killed in a car crash.
While Nica and the others are watching an old family video of Sarah, Nica spots Charles Lee Ray in the background. Alice informs them that Chucky is hiding, and Barb sends Jill to look for Chucky. Nica finds Chucky mysteriously sitting next to the sleeping Ian, who is also surprised to find him there. Nica takes Chucky into the elevator to bring him to Alice, but the elevator temporarily stops when the power goes out, during which time Chucky stabs Nica under her knee, but she can't feel it. Later that night, while Jill is using her laptop, Chucky kicks over a bucket of rain water, which flows over Jill's bare feet and the laptop cord, electrocuting Jill to death and causing a power outage. Meanwhile, Nica looks up Chucky doll evidence on the internet and sees a picture of Charles Lee Ray. Nica and Barb search for Alice, who has disappeared.
Barb finds Chucky and takes him up to the attic to look for Alice. The latex rubber on Chucky's face is coming off, and Barb peels it off, revealing Chucky's scars and stitches. Chucky then kills Barb and goes after Nica, who evades him and tells Ian that Barb and Jill are dead, Chucky's alive and Alice is missing. Ian brings Nica to her wheelchair downstairs and leaves her in the garage while he looks for Alice. Chucky starts the car and attempts to kill Nica with carbon monoxide poisoning, but Nica smashes the driver's window with an axe. Chucky swallows the car keys. Ian suspects Nica to be the killer and ties up her hands. Ian uses his laptop and views footage from the nanny camera he hid inside Chucky earlier. The footage reveals Chucky hid Alice inside a closet and is coming into the room at that moment.
Chucky pushes Nica's wheelchair into Ian, knocking him down. Chucky then kills Ian with the axe and attempts to kill Nica, but she grabs the axe and decapitates him. However, Chucky reattaches his head and pushes Nica's wheelchair through the staircase railing, sending Nica crashing to the floor. Chucky reveals he (as the human Charles Lee Ray) killed Nica's father in 1988 and kidnapped Sarah. When the cops arrived, Charles angrily stabbed the pregnant Sarah in the stomach, which caused Nica's paraplegia. Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) shot Charles in the toy store, which caused Charles to transfer his soul into the Good Guy doll, after which Chucky terrorized young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) and his mother Karen (Catherine Hicks).
Nica temporarily evades Chucky by getting into the elevator, but Chucky attacks her. Nica snatches Chucky's knife and stabs him. He gets back up, laughing evilly just as a police officer arrives. Chucky sits still while the cop arrests Nica. In court the next day, Nica is wrongly charged with the murders and is committed to an insane asylum. Chucky later finds Alice living with her grandmother. Chucky attempts to transfer his soul into Alice, while her grandmother comes up from the basement with a plastic bag over her head, revealing Chucky tried to suffocate her. Chucky's wife Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) mails Chucky to the adult Andy Barclay, who shoots him with a shotgun.
Trivia: Had the longest timegap between sequels, coming out nine years after the previous film, "Seed of Chucky." The long wait was in part because a few years after "Seed" was released, several attempts were made to remake/reboot the series, given the rising popularity of 80's slasher-film reboots. Despite several false starts, the reboot never happened. Eventually, series creator Don Mancini opted to instead perform a "tonal reboot" of the series with this film - by setting it in the same "universe" as the other movies, but shifting the focus back to classic horror and delivering a film more tonally similar to the original 1988 film. Mancini wanted to please fans, who expressed interest in seeing another "scary" Chucky movie after the previous two films had become increasingly comedic in tone.
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Answer: The films don't delve into either Chucky or Tiffany's backstory, and the films themselves are the only official canon. So until it is properly addressed in the movies, it's basically up to your imagination.