I have a sudden parenting crisis I could use advice on. Months back, my son talked me into letting him watch Child's Play. As you'll recall, the movie ends with Chucky getting shot through the heart, is blood splattering against a broken window in a NYC condo.

Well, I told my son that blood lands on a police horse on the street below, and Chucky thus possesses the horse, and so Child's Play 2 is about an evil police horse, and is called, in some cuts, "Child's Play 2: Horsing Around." 1/

Ever since, I've been nursing this story of Child's Play 2: Horsing Around. My son watched the trailer for the movie on YouTube. "It's not called that, dad, and there's no horse." It was only called that briefly, I told him, before the studio got rid of the name, because they thought it was hurting the box office. Of course the horse isn't in the trailer, because they don't want to give the twist away in the trailer. My efforts have had him, if not convinced, at least open to the possibility. 2/

Except now he's going to a friend's house for a sleepover tomorrow night, and he's told me they're going to watch Child's Play 2, hence my parenting crisis.

So, do any of you have any ideas how to maintain the ruse? I'm thinking I could tell him "Horsing Around" was actually an obscure director's cut, maybe only playing in Japan, or something. But I'm open to anything to maintain the myth of "Child's Play 2: Horsing Around." /end