I spent last Halloween on the set of a horror movie that was filming at a haunted asylum.
The film? This summer’s remake of the 1988 killer doll cult classic Child’s Play. The location? Riverview Hospital outside Vancouver, a mental health facility that local legend insists is haunted. But the vacated hospital wasn’t being used as any sort of creepy setting in the story. Instead, it was doubling as the basement of the apartment building where Aubrey Plaza’s character, single mom Karen Barclay, lives with her adolescent son, Andy (Gabriel Bateman).
In the film, Karen buys her son a present that seems innocuous enough at first glance — a red-haired, cherub-faced Buddi doll nicknamed Chucky — but that proves to be a sentient and very deadly being.
Source: IGN.com Child's Play Remake: What Makes an AI Chucky Scary?