755 Child's Play (1988)

 The  controversial franchise  started  here with  what  amounts to  a  pretty  nifty litle shocker with good  performances and  impressive special effects. A  serial killer played with wild-eyed relish by Brad Dourif  is  mortally wounded but uses  his  knowledge of  voodoo  to  transfer his  soul into a plastic  doll to  seek  revenge on the  cop who shot him ( Chris  Sarandon ) 

Catherine Hicks  ( as Karen Barclay )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This  was  Catherine's  last  horror  role.

Dinah Manoff  ( as Maggie )

Sex : No

Death: Rather unconvincingly, she  falls  out  of  a  high window after being  hit with a toy hammer

Dinah  is  the  daughter of actress Lee  Grant. She  started acting hereslf  in  the  mid-seventies and  is  best  known for  playing  Marty in Grease ( at 21 she was  the nearest thing to a  real teenager in the cast ). She  also  appeared in Ordinary  People  and  won a Tony Award  for  I  Ought To Be In Pictures on Broadway. She  reprised  her  role in the film  version  but  it  flopped  and  she  fell  into  TV movies  with  the  odd  supporting  role in films. She  seems  to  have  retired  now.