Child's Play

When it's not used as a simple idiom for "something easy", Child's Play can refer to:

Comic Books

Film

  • Child's Play (1954 film), a sci-fi film
  • Child's Play (1972 film), a film directed by Sidney Lumet with James Mason based on the play
  • Child's Play (1992 film), a German film
  • Child's Play (film), an American slasher horror film franchise about a possessed doll
    • Child's Play (1988 film), a supernatural slasher film
    • Child's Play (2019 film), a reboot of the 1988 film
  • Love Me If You Dare (French title Jeux d'enfants i.e. Child's Play), a 2003 French-Belgian film
  • Juego de Niños ("Child's Play"), a 1995 Spanish horror film

Literature

  • "Child's Play", a 1947 science fiction short story by William Tenn
  • Child's Play (Ichiyo Higuchi novella), novella by Ichiyō Higuchi
  • Child's Play (play), a 1970 stage play by Robert Marasco
  • Child’s Play, novel (Dalziel & Pascoe Book 9) by Reginald Hill
  • Child’s Play, novel by Andrew Neiderman
  • Child's Play (Kia Abdullah novel), a 2009 novel by Kia Abdullah

Live-Action TV

  • Child's Play (TV series), a CBS Game Show hosted by Bill Cullen.
  • Child's Play (UK game show), a British game show based on a U.S. format of the same name
    • Child's Play (Australian game show), an Australian game show based on the U.S. show of the same name
  • "Child's Play", a 1984 episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
  • "Child's Play", a 1985 episode of Transformers
  • "Child's Play", a 1988 episode of Tanner '88
  • "Child's Play", a 1993 episode of In the Heat of the Night
  • "Child's Play", a 2000 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • "Child's Play", a 2002 episode of Time Squad
  • "Child's Play", a 2007 episode of CSI: NY
  • "Child's Play", a 2012 episode of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Music

  • Child's Play (band), a hard rock band from Baltimore, Maryland

Tabletop Games

  • Child's Play (module), an adventure module published in 1989 to introduce the Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition rules

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