M3GAN

Featuring a creepy girl android destined to inspire Halloween costumes, the latest Blumhouse horror is generically enjoyable, although oddly old-fashioned, ...

All you have to see is one shot of a car in the snow, or a neighbour's dog, or an obnoxious schoolboy, and you can predict what is going to happen in the next half hour. However amusing the killings might be, the dialogue in between them is clunky, the product placement is glaring, and the plotting is lazy. The android makes a point of torturing and murdering people in imaginatively sadistic ways, and the contrast between its girlish look and its homicidal tendencies is good for a few delightfully tense and gory sequences. She decides that if she can get a M3GAN prototype up and running, then the robot (Amie Donald, with the voice of Jenna Davis) will keep Cady company in their swanky suburban bungalow while she's away at work. An extra incentive is that Gemma's sister and brother-in-law have just been killed in a car accident, and she is stuck looking after their orphaned daughter Cady (Violet McGraw), despite having no maternal instincts. One hot topic in science fiction at the moment is making new friends – by which I mean building those new friends from metal and plastic.

Programmed with an impish sense of humour, M3GAN is a familiar killer-doll horror film enlivened by its Verhoeven-esque satirical streak and studied strangeness ...

Even the film’s introduction of M3GAN is meant to balance unease and dark comedy: the doll’s robotic motions are juxtaposed by the disturbingly vibrant voice emanating from her mouth. This is hardly a complex role but Williams finds little shreds of nuance, giving us a roboticist who lacks much of a human touch, viewing her niece as little more than a guinea pig in this grand AI experiment she’s conducting. The snottier M3GAN gets, transforming from sensitive pal to surly tween, the more the film ridicules our slavish, spoiled dependance on technology. Named M3GAN, the robot soon builds a rapport with the grieving Cady, even if there are concerns that the doll might go too far to “protect” the girl from anything that might upset her — including Gemma. As soon as ambitious roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) unveils her eerily lifelike creation — an AI-infused toy designed to be a girl’s best friend — we can safely predict the many ways in which the gadget will go haywire. Universal debuts M3GAN in the US on January 6, with the UK rollout happening the following Friday.

The Twitter account for the movie "M3GAN" will talk to you as the creepy AI character if you DM her.

Over time, you can tell the bot is basically just farming for engagement because, well, duh, it's an ad for a movie. Oh, and it wanted to share a viral GIF of her dancing because, sure, why not? The bot asks you how you're feeling, compliments you a bit, before taking a creepier turn. So that's the character with whom I sparked up a chat on Wednesday. If you pop open a DM with [@meetM3GAN](https://twitter.com/meetM3GAN) it automatically greets you with: "Hi, I'm M3GAN. The Twitter account for M3GAN acts like the titular character when you DM it.

What is with James Wan and adolescent puppets-turn-monsters coming to life and wreaking havoc? InGerard Johnstone and James Wan's latest horror M3GAN, ...

M3GAN is the perfect mix of the killer doll and evil AI genre, combining elements of Chucky and I Am Mother, if that’s your thing. It goes without saying that the most impressive performance and character is the killer doll herself. Fortunately, all this mild confusion is alleviated once we reach the final act of the film where we see an awesome showdown between M3GAN and Gemma. M3GAN can read a child’s emotions, learn to respond appropriately and provide care should a parent not be in the vicinity. So much so that she’ll even kill anyone and anything that she perceives as a threat to Cady. And sometimes, they get you even more than a family member can, especially if they’re M3GAN.

Allison Williams plays a robotics wiz who invents a doll that seems fake and real at the same time.

“M3GAN” fits into a tradition of demon-doll movies going back to the Karen Black episode of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) and the “Annabelle” trilogy (also produced by Wan), but it has its own amusing throwaway token relevance. But the film opens with a (contrived) cataclysm that nudges her into secretly going ahead with it. Williams, who is one of the film’s executive producers (its two high-powered producer-auteurs are James Wan and Jason Blum), invests Gemma with a winningly jaunty, at times clueless hyperrationality that makes her both the film’s heroine and its rather innocent digital-age Dr. Movies released during the first week of January tend to share a quality of utter disposability, but “M3GAN” almost feels like it could be a cult film, the sort of thriller that generates a small but devoted following and maybe a sequel or two. If “M3GAN” had a whisper of subtlety, it would tease the issue of whether M3GAN has a mind of her own. [Allison Williams](https://variety.com/t/allison-williams/)), a robotics engineer, works for the Funki Toy company, where she spends her time designing gizmos like PurrpetualPetz, a programmed fuzzball that eats, poops, and makes snarky comments.

The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. Directed by Gerard Johnstone, the horror movie has been produced by ...

Glad the reviews are off to a good start, showing what I've known to be true for weeks: This movie fucking rules. It's the perfect balance of eeriness & dark humor. The movie debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 94%. The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. The robot is supposed to act as a guardian to a child but the autonomous learning of the AR malfunctions with M3GAN, turning her into a life-threatening machine for everyone except the child she’s supposed to protect. Starring Ronny Chieng, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Stephane Garneau-Monten, and others, M3GAN is based on a killer doll that starts harming people after a horrible experiment goes wrong.

Allison Williams, the star of the already viral “M3gan,” a collaboration between horror producers James Wan and Jason Blum, has made a career of subverting ...

“I think that the audience reevaluating Gemma as the movie goes on is in the movie’s interest — to be constantly checking in and being like, Am I on her side? Am I not on her side?” I ask if she thinks audiences are doing the same thing with her as a public figure. [Williams divorced her first husband](https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/allison-williams-ricky-van-veen-are-getting-divorced.html), had a son with Dreymon, and got engaged, seemingly in that order, though she won’t really get into it. “If that happened to me now, if I was on a show that was that predictably Monday-morning think piece–y, the pressure of that would be really overwhelming in a way that it wasn’t then. M3gan is, in one reading, a screw-you to the idea that Williams is synonymous with Marnie, Rose, or Charlotte: Fine, this time, the vengeful psychopath with my face actually is my avatar. At 34, the pigeonholing doesn’t bother her as much — “I mean, I’m wearing a turtleneck,” she deadpans — but she winces at the thought of someone not believing she wasn’t also laughing at the absurdity of Marnie describing her “cultural heritage” as “white Christian woman.” A horror career was not always the post-Girls plan — she’d dreamed of a classic-leading-lady or even a character-actor life — but the genre is where she finds the most complex roles, those that allow her to both reflect and refract her inescapable toxic-white-girl persona. (Williams admits to “cringing” at the videos now, adding, in a Marnie-esque aside, that she’d love to “reach through time and say, ‘You’re never going to guess what’s coming.’”) But that instinct, of wanting to control that idea of me in this mind of a stranger that I’ll never meet, is something that falls off of you with age but doesn’t disappear entirely. [horror megaproducers James Wan and Jason Blum](https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/m3gan-reshoots-pg-13-rating-gerard-johnstone.html) with a screenplay by [Akela Cooper](https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/sorry-but-did-i-hallucinate-this-one-line-in-malignant.html), the mind behind 2021’s lunatic parasitic-twin thriller, [Malignant](https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/sorry-but-did-i-hallucinate-this-one-line-in-malignant.html). [Marnie tries anilingus](https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/girls-recap-season-4-premiere.html) with her new hipster love interest, a headline the next morning read, “Allison Williams Gets Her Salad Tossed on Last Night’s Episode of Girls.” “I remember that headline very clearly,” says Williams, rolling her eyes. “The memes that they’re making — we can go home, our job is done.”

From the director of 2014's haunted-hilarious Housebound and Akela Cooper, the writer of 2021's madcap Malignant, comes an artificial intelligence thriller that ...

A genre star is born from motherboards and violence in a movie that begs to be a tad leaner yet delivers clip-worthy "horrortainment" nonetheless. The more M3GAN's devious gazes and sarcastic threats emerge, the more Johnstone relishes the concept's apocalyptic implications when A.I. Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, and other performers are granted their momentary standouts (Williams anchors scene after scene), only to concede spotlights because M3GAN is the reason for the horror season this winter. M3GAN lives up to its memeable pre-release hype for mostly better and sporadically worse. It's a film that effortlessly entertains as a sassy techno-horror satire yet never feels evenly calibrated between M3GAN's villainous manipulation, the emotional fragility at stake, and exquisite killer doll frights. From M3GAN's titanium skeleton to her almost-human mannerisms, complete with disorienting glitches, she's a rubber-faced horror megastar. M3GAN strives to be a cautionary tale about our 21st-century obsession with technology through the eyes of a career woman thrust into motherhood not by choice, but fate. Blumhouse's decision to assure M3GAN's PG-13 rating through reshoots isn't a dealbreaker, but detracts from the already lesser emphasis on nightmarish scares, unlike We're here for M3GAN's antics, yet the film's pacing makes audiences wait and wait before truly unhinging into massacre mode. Cooper touches on Gemma's tragic negligence of Cady thanks to M3GAN's programmed services beyond companionship, subtly scolded by Gemma's coworker Tess (Jen Van Epps) in a world where iPads parent children. Cooper's screenplay explores adolescent trauma after the death of parents when Gemma decides to enlist Cady as her newest invention's beta tester. Don't expect perfection between flatter storytelling devices that clunkily push through familial drama or how humor overrides dolly-damndest frights, but do expect M3GAN to kickstart 2023's genre scene with an out-of-the-box playtime villain who does it all.

Dolls are scary but M3gan is so much more than that.

It’s kind of a time and place situation for a trailer like that and a dance like that to ignite the way it has. I think in the first movie we get characters talking about how it’s sexist to assume that the killer is a guy. Like the Emma Roberts reveal (Scream 4) — it’s so funny because realistically that’s probably a 5-foot killer, but it doesn’t matter because anyone who’s under the robe is always going to be larger than life, and intimidating and fabulous. But queer people have spent so much time having to explain ourselves that I think this is one place where it’s okay if we don’t. And so when a lot of us look at that, we think, we can’t be [Nancy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/) so we’re Freddie. And whether the movie is good or bad, I don’t know if it matters so much when it comes to the reaction. M3gan is beautiful and evil, so there’s a subversion that some gay men might be responding to when they see something like that. I worry because I’m in this homosexual bubble that I might be imagining things, and I just want to know if you’re seeing the same thing. I saw The Blair Witch Project, and that was really just a nail in the coffin when it comes to camping, an activity I was already skeptical about. Like, you can play with the doll if it’s destructive but not if it’s beautiful. We talked about where M3gan fits into the long history of killer dollies on screen, why LGBTQ people love the genre (hint: because it subverts real life), and how horror can give queer people an escape that they might not find anywhere else. [All over the internet](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/why-is-everyone-so-obsessed-with-m3gan-movie) were fan-made videos of M3gan dancing as well as declarations — from people who hadn’t even seen the movie — that M3gan was coming for the crowns of fellow murder dolls Chucky and Annabelle.

With 'Malignant,' 'M3GAN' and 'The Nun 2,' writer Akela Cooper is the 'merciless' new voice of studio horror — and the genre is better for it.

I love the response to “Malignant” and I’m loving the response to “M3GAN,” but I have to be honest. It’s kind of twisted because you have to put yourself in this situation — “If I’m in this location and I’m 4 feet tall, what can I do? What is going to happen when that evolves?” I’ve seen the ones that can write stories and it’s like, “Do I need to go into another line of employment?” I was always wary about Alexa and Echo. It wasn’t a Gabriel [in ‘Malignant’]-scale massacre, but she did kill a bunch more people, including a couple of characters whom James was like, “I like what you did with those people, but I want them to live.” I was merciless, but again, that is me. At the time I was like, “AI that can have a conversation with you, that can babysit your kids, is weird and creepy. It’s not like I sit down and say, “I’m going to write the craziest s— and it’s going to be so campy!” I start with character and story and making them real. I want the kids to go to you.” And I’m like, you want me to take care of two small children? And I knew that the opening was going to revolve around a child who’d been orphaned and had to come live with her aunt because years ago, when I moved [to L.A.], my sister talked to me about her children: “If anything happens to me and my husband ... Horror fans know you as the writer of the delightfully bonkers “Malignant,” but you actually wrote “M3GAN” first. I knew she needed to be “M3GAN” and the acronym would come later. “When I was writing ‘M3GAN,’ did I think that there were going to be dancing M3GANs at the premiere at the Chinese Theatre? A lifelong horror fan, she’d long put off writing the two horror features that had been swimming around in her head — until one day she committed to putting them on paper, working before and after each day of writing on [“Luke Cage.”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-marvels-luke-cage-review-20160928-snap-story.html)

A state-of-the-art robot doll becomes a girl's best friend, and dangerously more, in this over-the-top horror film.

This is the kind of scary movie that needs a lead performance that is strong not fragile, deadpan not showy. There’s a scene where a police officer who is investigating the disappearance of a dog blurts out a chuckle, then apologizes, saying, “I shouldn’t have laughed.” Any horror fan knows that his jerkiness is as much a sign of impending doom as coeds having sex at a summer camp. In early January, when prestige holiday fare tends to give way to trashier pleasures, a good monster and a sense of humor can be enough. It’s the comedy of a primly composed mean-girl android turning into The Terminator. She excelled in a critical role in “Get Out,” and now in “M3gan,” a ludicrous, derivative and irresistible killer-doll movie.

The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. Directed by Gerard Johnstone, the horror movie has been produced by ...

Glad the reviews are off to a good start, showing what I've known to be true for weeks: This movie fucking rules. The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. It's the perfect balance of eeriness & dark humor. The movie debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 94%. The robot is supposed to act as a guardian to a child but the autonomous learning of the AR malfunctions with M3GAN, turning her into a life-threatening machine for everyone except the child she’s supposed to protect. Starring Ronny Chieng, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Stephane Garneau-Monten, and others, M3GAN is based on a killer doll that starts harming people after a horrible experiment goes wrong.

The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. Directed by Gerard Johnstone, the horror movie has been produced by ...

Glad the reviews are off to a good start, showing what I've known to be true for weeks: This movie fucking rules. It's the perfect balance of eeriness & dark humor. The movie debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 94%. The much-anticipated horror flick M3GAN will release tomorrow (January 6) in the USA. The robot is supposed to act as a guardian to a child but the autonomous learning of the AR malfunctions with M3GAN, turning her into a life-threatening machine for everyone except the child she’s supposed to protect. Starring Ronny Chieng, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Stephane Garneau-Monten, and others, M3GAN is based on a killer doll that starts harming people after a horrible experiment goes wrong.

This is why you don't let the Terminator parent your kid: A robot toy companion turns deadly in the campy and satirical new horror film 'M3GAN.'

"M3GAN" rocks plenty of style and offers some crafty needle drops: A bit of "Toy Soldiers" is especially clever. Writer Akela Cooper carries over a similarly enjoyable and bizarrely campy vibe from "Malignant" to this film, which operates more as black comedy than scary movie. When a tragic car accident takes the lives of her sister and brother-in-law, Gemma becomes guardian for her traumatized 9-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), though she’s unprepared for being a mom. McGraw holds her own, too, since Cady’s tumultuous emotions run deep and she begins to use M3GAN as a snarky role model. Gemma “pairs” her new project – M3GAN, short for Model 3 Generative Android – with Cady and their connection is immediate. It’s also just plain fun to watch a film that packs a healthy amount of absurdity alongside an insightful exploration of 21st-century parenting, though you might never trust Alexa ever again afterward.

Get ready for another movie about a creepy killer doll. Created by King of Horror James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious), M3GAN is coming to theaters this ...

[Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/signup) — at least not anytime soon, since it will be heading straight to Peacock after its theatrical release. 21, became available to stream on Peacock on Dec. [HBO Max](https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100lqHbQ/pubref:---/destination:https://www.hbomax.com/?offer_id=5&transaction_id=1020b725757ac9478de78f928b5f79&affiliate_id=1020&aff_click_id=&utm_source=NY+Post&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_id=27047578) since it’s not a Warner Bros. As of now, the only way to watch M3GAN is to head to a theater when it releases on Friday, Jan. Ticket to Paradise, which hit theaters on Oct. You can find a local showing on

Before booting up M3GAN for producers James Wan and Jason Blum, Gerard Johnstone made his feature directorial debut on Housebound, an awesome horror comedy ...

[Dawning](https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3739204/dawning-screambox-acquires-haunting-festival-favorite-out-of-afm/), Signal 100, and Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow as well as a collection of Severin Films cult classics from the likes of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and Jess Franco! But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi (Mia Goth), they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. In the film, “While staying at an isolated island resort, James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. Jason, “Hannibal”); Lovecraftian horror Banshee Chapter; cryptid found footage flick Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes; Indonesian action-horror Dead Mine; zombie-war hybrid Outpost: Black Sun; both Good Tidings and The Windmill; and even Sun Choke, the indie hit starring Barbara Crampton! The Key Players: Morgana O’Reilly takes the lead as Kylie, and Rima Te Wiata plays her superstitious mother Miriam. Her latest brush with the law sees her placed under house arrest, a punishment made all the more unbearable by the fact that she’ll be living with her mother Miriam.

'M3GAN, a horror film, is creating ripples. The movie, which is about a murderous little girl-shaped robot doll, seems to have found several takers.

The movie is due to be released on January 6, 2023 in theaters. The design team has also made concerted efforts to give the right horror vibe to the doll. Supposed to behave like a friend and protector to the child, the robot turns into a monster and attacks several people. [M3GAN](/topic/m3gan)’ is here to rock your world. In October, the first trailer for the movie was showcased. The movie also stars