The M3GAN trailer yass-ifies the haunted doll trope
Try not to get on this Cruel Intentions-looking android's bad side—and definitely don't challenge M3GAN to a dance off
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Chucky, pack your bags. Annabelle, take your braids and go. There’s a new doll slayer in town, and between her high-tech programming and perfectly blown-out hair, she’s no haunted plaything to be trifled with. M3GAN, a new horror picture produced by genre veterans James Wan and Jason Blum, introduces an android bestie unlike all the resties with one of the most fun trailers in recent memory.
From director Gerard Johnstone and Malignant screenwriter Akela Cooper, M3GAN follows Gemma (Allison Williams), a genius roboticist charged with caring for her young niece Cady (The Haunting Of Hill House’s Violet McGraw). Unsure how to approach supporting recently orphaned Cady, Gemma decides to set her up on a seemingly innocuous blind date with M3GAN, the latest prototype in a series of androids Gemma has been developing.
M3GAN stands for Model Three Generative Android, but from the moment she arrives at Cady’s house in a trench coat and whips off her sunglasses, it’s clear M3GAN isn’t bound by anyone’s programming. At first, things are great—from TikTok dances to tearful talks, M3GAN and Cady couldn’t be getting along better. But by the time M3GAN (maybe) pushes a boy in front of a car, Cady and Gemma are in too deep—and M3GAN won’t turn off at Gemma’s command anymore. All they can do is watch her put that pinafore to work.
The balls-to-the-wall bonkers trailer sees M3GAN going to extreme lengths to protect her chosen BFF—and by god, having fun with it. Whether she’s crawling through the woods or performing an unforgettably menacing hallway dance routine, M3GAN can’t be bothered with anything that doesn’t involve slaying, literally and figuratively. Really, another influential modern Megan (of Thee Stallion persuasion) sums up M3GAN best: “Annabelle bitch your OVER.”
M3GAN arrives in theaters on January 13.
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Let the creepy Small Wonder references begin!
Small Wonder was creepy enough as it is
Do you know what he’s talking about? I dunno what he’s talking about.
Rod Serling still owns the gold standard.
Okay, she’s serving. The eyelashes? I’m gooped, queen!
Summer is Safe.Also not to steal the thunder of the local proofreader gimmick account but:Really, another influential modern Megan (of Thee Stallion persuasion) sums up M3GAN best: “Annabelle bitch your (sic) OVER.”
I’m a human being with feelings
and that was a perfectly constructed sentence. <3
This actually doesn’t look terrible. It doesn’t look good but it could be a fun watch. Way more “Child Play” then the remake that came out a few years back.
But I have to say it again because I think its stupid every time I see it, nail guns don’t work that way.
This actually doesn’t look terrible. It doesn’t look good but it could be a fun watch.You’ve just described every Blumhouse movie ever made.
It’s pretty much the working formula for most popular horror movie.
Don’t trust fembots! They are all evil.
What about Barbeaubots?
Shh… you wanna die?
I wouldn’t mind going out via crime-fighting jugs.
Perhaps Luke Scott’s “Morgan” should instead have been titled “M0RGAN” to let people know it’s a scifi film with a synthetic lead.For those who noticed the trailer containing a producer credit for The Black Phone, yes this Violet McGraw is the sister of Madeleine McGraw, who played Finney’s sister Gwen in that.
“a sci-fi film with a synthetic lead”
It’s so good to see Shatner staying busy.