M3GAN
There isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been gleefully laid forth in the viral marketing campaign for Universal and Blumhouse’s campy horror-comedy romp M3GAN (trailer here) but I’ll do my best. After setting the internet (see: Gay Twitter) ablaze in October with a trailer featuring a life-size American Girl doll android dancing to Taylor Swift and murdering innocent victims in the same breath, M3GAN finally hits theaters this weekend. The film follows Gemma (GET OUT’s Allison Williams), a roboticist at a toy company who creates a lifelike AI doll— M3GAN, short for “model 3 generative android"—to console her 8-year-old niece Cady after her parents die in a tragic car accident. Gemma finds herself unequipped to provide emotional support to Cady and increasingly relies on M3GAN to console and entertain her. But this is a horror-comedy, so naturally, M3GAN’s objective to protect Cady from emotional and physical harm begins to spiral out of control as the body count suspiciously starts piling up around Gemma and Cady. If you’re not a big horror fan, M3GAN might be the perfect stepping stone for you. The film carries a PG-13 rating and the set pieces and kills are executed with far more self-aware parody than genuine thrills. It’s an unapologetically absurd and weird film and all the more fun for it; watching it with a boisterous sold-out crowd last night made for the perfect return to theaters.
—Neal Mulani, Development Assistant
