"Chucky" Banished From Antalya Museum After Frightening Visitors

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 19 July 2022)

 The resemblance is less than uncanny. Own film series

unlikely.

A statue, nicknamed "Chucky" after the horror film character by 

workers at the Antalya Kaleiçi Ethnography Museum, depicts a crying

child being washed by her mother in a bath basin.  But because the statue

has frightened visitors it has been put in storage. (!)

The real "Chucky" doesn't cry.  He just makes others cry.

The decision to put the statue in storage has brought sculptor Tülay

Aktaş and the museum's directors into conflict.  Aktaş lamented that

"the statue depicts a 3-year-old girl crying while being bathed by her

mother. Wouldn't a child cry in a situation like that?  I tried to give the

statue a realistic depiction and took great care in doing so.  But it 

frightened some people and the workers even started calling it "Chucky"".

The "Chucky" horror film series of seven movies began in 1988 and

the films were shown in Turkey under the name "Child's Play".  The last 

one was shown in 2017 and a new one is expected to come out this year.  

           Squeamish visitors have their day.