M3GAN

M3GAN, pronounced Megan, is the latest horror film to go viral - here's all you need to know about the 2023 robot doll movie.

The Rotten Tomatoes consensus reads: “Unapologetically silly and all the more entertaining for it, M3GAN is the rare horror-comedy that delivers chuckles as effortlessly as chills.” M3GAN stand for Model 3 Generated Android, and Gemma makes her to be a kid’s best friend. What we know so far of the M3GAN plot is that the film stars Alison Williams (of Get Out fame) as Gemma, a roboticist who makes M3GAN for her niece Cady, who finds herself orphaned after her parents die in a car accident.

M3GAN currently holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Early reviews suggest that the horror comedy could be a 'cult film'.

You don’t have to take the movie seriously to enjoy it as a high-kitsch cautionary tale for an age when technology, especially for kids, is becoming the new companionship.” The first reviews of M3GAN suggest that it “could be a cult film” in the campy thriller genre. Directed by Gerard Johnstone, the film follows a young girl who gets attached to an AI doll and as they become friends, the doll becomes more and more human (and creepy) telling us yet again that technology is no substitute for human contact.

A review of the 4-foot horror movie that's hot on everyone's lips, M3GAN. With its unique premise, could it beat out other horror films?

It’s a fun horror flick, one that’s sure to be rewatched in future years as a great cultural portrait of the 2020s. The constant references to modern day pop music are going to show their age in a few years, and the fact they’re so on the nose is giving me a lot of Suicide Squad flashbacks. Even her dialogue is great, oscillating wildly between a focus tester’s idea of a pre-teen girl and a pre-teen girl who’s just that much more sinister. There’s a surprising amount of restraint in how they designed the character- she looks like a real doll you’d buy on the market, rather than something designed to be intentionally creepy. Featuring a killer robot doll and a lot of jabs at modern technology, M3GAN has the potential to be one of the most unique horror movies of the past year. The other half of the success is M3GAN herself.

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.”

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)

Read Bloody Disgusting's review of M3GAN, the new horror movie that sings and dances its way into theaters on January 6, 2023.

I was pretty upset in that moment but over time I learned to appreciate the ride. She was out of breath and looked dead at us and spilled, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god” as she stumbled down the corridor like a crackhead wearing rollerblades. The next day we finally had a ride to the theater and were going to witness The Blair Witch Project for ourselves. The PERFECT place to watch this and a place to that point I’d never been. Now, I was a salty little bitch for having the movie ruined for me the night before but all that changed when we were standing in line and the showing before ours let out. We lived in an age of unsolved mysteries because the internet was in its infancy and also because of the literal show This kind of grab assing went on with me and my friends for weeks leading up to the film’s release. They all went to bed and I was hanging out in the basement by myself and thought, “Let’s see if there’s a web page about this.” Big ole’ mistake, Mike. I thought I was scared shitless before but now I was on a whole nother planet – and so were my buddies. The horror-comedy does live up to its promise to entertain, but with a heavy emphasis on humor and less on horror. I flipped on the cable TV with the clicker, not even bothering to find a channel. It’s less about a newly orphaned girl and more about the absurdity of M3GAN’s existence and the desire to sell her as the hottest new toy despite fully knowing what kind of monster is on their hands.

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 internet blew up when the trailer for the Blumhouse sci-fi shocker dropped. It has so far been viewed over 22 million times on the official YouTube ...

I've been filming for a while and trying to be very Covid cautious, so I haven't been to the movie theaters a bunch in the last couple of years. The frightening moments were between cut and action, whether M3gan was just off to the side waiting to work again or she was right in my face waiting for them to switch a lens or something like that, and it felt so plausible that suddenly she would spring to life. You have to lay enough to put the crumbs out there, so you want to entice the studio to make more because it's so much fun. It's the exaggerating that allows for more freedom of conversation about kids and technology and whether or not it is a good idea to have M3gan function in the same role that parents should. There's also always this worry because I have been watching cuts of it on screens about the size of my TV at home, and then we premiered it in the Chinese Theatre. It's the one we all dreamed of for her, and now M3gan belongs to the world. That was in there from the moment we had her playing the piano. From the description in the scripts I read and from the initial conversations with the director, Gerard, cutting then to all these years later and seeing the final cut, we gave this movie its best life. The people have yet to decide, and you have to let people do that. Then there was the task of introducing M3gan to the world. I'm poised that way, but I was so thrilled by the response to the trailer. Simon Thompson: The last time I spoke to you was on the backlot at Universal Studios for Get Out.

Hey, doll! We meet the team behind horror icon M3GAN, the killer kids' toy tearing up TikTok. Next stop: the multiplex.

“I’ve watched this film more times than I can count on my television and my iPad, but it’s very different to watch it in a theatre full of people who bring very different sensibilities,” she says. “I wanted her to have elegance and class.” During the creative process, giving M3GAN a touch of class evolved into making her even more lifelike. “Akela did a really awesome job of setting everything up: the characters, the conflict and the mechanics of the story,” he says. “And what’s so terrifying is that she can do all these things that a parent can’t do, but also do things that they can do, but do them even better.” “And then as I carried on reading the script,” Williams says, “I was sweating and panicking because I didn’t know who I was rooting for and I didn’t know what was going to happen. “It’s a really dramatic moment where M3GAN is being asked if she’s done something really terrible, so I wanted her to skirt that question in a way that felt comforting”. At times, this film is so frightening that 11-year-old McGraw says she “probably wouldn’t be allowed to watch it” if she weren’t one of its stars. When M3GAN was announced in 2018, Blum said Johnstone was the ideal director because “we needed someone who can do the thrills and set pieces, but who also has a cheeky approach”. “That’s always the bar because I am a good actress, not a great one,” she continues. “For me to ask someone to leave their house in this day and age and pay money for a movie ticket, I really have to believe that I’m going to give you entertainment and you’re going to have a blast,” she says. Her name is M3GAN – short for Model 3 Generative Android – and she’s the seemingly flawless prototype for the lifelike doll that Gemma believes will become a revolutionary, “must-have” toy. “When I first read the script, I thought Gemma was awesome,” says Williams, who is also an executive producer on the movie.

Allison Williams looked incredible while attending a special screening of her film M3GAN with fiancé Alexander Dreymon on Wednesday in New York City.

A group of M3GAN dolls were also seen performing for the crowd. Chatting with the crowd: Inside the event Williams took to the stage with a microphone and addressed the crowd In black: Molly Kavanaugh wore a lovely black dress with black combat boots and also posed with the dolls Molly Kavanaugh wore a lovely black dress with black combat boots, and also posed with the dolls. Jillian Onorato was in attendance as well, and sported a baby doll dress and necktie that matched the doll on the poster. Matching: Jillian Onorato was in attendance as well, and sported a baby doll dress and necktie that matched the doll on the poster

Credit where it's due: The marketing team behind the new horror movie M3GAN has done an excellent job. It's been easy enough to rake in the horror fans; ...

It’s not a movie you watch for the airtight quality of its storytelling or the subtlety of its technological cautionary tale. Because it has a highly specific, out-of-pocket sense of humor, which is campy and offbeat and so clued into the pop cultural appetite for irony that it’s sometimes difficult to tell what’s supposed to be a joke. M3GAN’s plot is functional, and its thrills are solid, but its sense of humor is uniquely vibrant, both weirder and funnier than expected even after months of hype. And while many of the movie’s best moments of physical comedy have already been given away in its marketing, M3GAN retains a few tricks up its sleeve: a riotous opening scene, discreet text-based visual gags, and multiple jokes involving songs so perfectly chosen I’m struggling not to spoil them here. Toward the end of the film, a distraught Cady threatens her therapist with scissors and slaps Gemma clean across the face. But the more familiar its particular blend of horror and comedy is to viewers ahead of time, the easier it will be to forgive the movie’s shortcomings in favor of fawning reenactments of its most quotable lines. Its plot points are skimpily justified: Cady’s parents die convenient horror-movie deaths; Gemma finalizes M3GAN within a week, despite having spent $100,000 and untold years tinkering on it unsuccessfully; various characters make pointed allusions to how the rushed timeline of M3GAN’s release means she can’t be properly safety-tested. M3GAN’s sense of humor is one of a kind. Soon enough, Gemma debuts M3GAN: a robot designed to mimic Cady’s speech and behavior patterns and protect her from harm who is programmed to get better at her job as she spends more time studying Cady and the world. But because “killer robot doll” is merely a vibe and not a premise for a feature-length film, here’s the basic plot of M3GAN, which comes out tomorrow: M3GAN, which stands for “Model 3 Generative Android,” is the secret side project of roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams). As M3GAN performs for two audiences, one real and one fictional, the movie delights in breaking our expectations again and again, daring to be even weirder than it was just moments ago. The first trailer, which dropped last October, is set to an eerie version of “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” by Taylor Swift, automatically earning the allegiance of millions of Swifties.

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

Allison Williams cut a stylish figure on Thursday morning as she appeared on the Today Show t o promote her new film M3GAN and discuss becoming a mother.

Entertaining film: Allison opened up about the popularity of a dance seen in the film. She continued, 'Do I love watching them? Discussing the thriller genre, Allison said she really likes scary movies saying, 'I love making them. Williams, 34, said of her baby boy: 'He is adorable, I am very proud. On her way out: Williams exited the Today Show in New York City wearing a long dark blue coat and black boots as she carried a light brown handbag on her way to her next show Ryan and Kelly As she arrived on set in the chilly weather, she wore a long black coat with black boots and styled her long brunette locks in waves down over her shoulders with a side part.

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.

Allison Williams discusses what it was like working with the 'M3GAN' doll and serving as an executive producer alongside James Wan.

I loved it all, and I'm loving the experience of promoting it and delivering M3GAN to the world and the marketing, and I'm not in charge of any of it. So, from the script to even the edit of the movie, to the way it's promoted and all of it, I like to be involved in all of it. I'm currently shooting something where I'm not producing it, and it's so hard to not be wanting to know everything that's going on. It's going to be hard to go back. I found that it deepened my experience as an actor because it allowed my investment to be as deep as I always want it to be. The great joy is being able to work with people who are and learn from all of the experts and the geniuses who come up with these trailers and who come up with the marketing campaigns. I got to be on the email distributions of, "We're trying to clear these toys for Gemma's shelf, and we can't get any toys from this company. And so I'd be Gemma for 10 hours, and then we'd break for lunch, and I'd be the executive producer, and we'd talk about the rest of the day and the schedule going forward and stuff, and how we're going to achieve all of this stuff, or such-and-such actor can't come in anymore. She seems so real that even when she's not talking or doing anything, it's so easy to just project that onto her, to imagine that she's just going to strike up a conversation with you. I have most of my marbles still. So between "cut" and the next "action," either while we were doing a scene together or even just during a break when she was not working, [was] very eerie just because I think she's so alive to me. When her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, she is left to care for her young niece, Cady, and is ill-equipped to do so.

A young girl gets a robotic doll with a murderous streak in this fun horror film from producers James Wan and Jason Blum.

[Exclusive Expedia promo code - Extra 5% hotel bookings (no minimum spend)](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/expedia) [SHEIN coupon code - 25% off](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/shein) Yet at its core it’s about the ambivalence of raising children (“All joy and no fun,” as the writer Jennifer Senior put it in a book of that title) as personified by a lead engineer at a toy manufacturer: Gemma (Allison Williams, formerly of “Girls”) becomes the guardian of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after the kid’s parents are killed in an accident. - DoorDash: All things considered, some parents might be willing to overlook the cuddly robot’s shortcomings, such as a sarcastic streak and a tendency to commit homicide. In “M3gan,” the titular gadget—a “Model 3 Generative Android” that looks like the lost Olsen sister—teaches a little girl proper bathroom procedure with military rigor while the kid’s guardian occupies herself with more diverting activities.

Now, that's no slight against Cady's Aunt Gemma. She's not a bad person. Gemma is simply an overworked, thirtysomething robotic engineer who's ill-equipped to ...

M3GAN quietly comforts her and takes the time to help the girl think of fond memories that she can cling to. For all of those positives, however, there is another tiny Terminator boot a’ dropping: M3GAN, with her kewpie-doll perfection and girl’s-best-friend charm, is also a steely eyed killer. Cady wonders about the screentime limits that her parents used to impose. And for Gemma, her latest brainchild becomes the babysitter she desperately needs so she can get back to her normal life. And that sometimes translates into heartless disregard for human life that becomes more Terminator-like and brutal as she “learns” from the web-connected resources at her disposal. She’s also that glinting-eyed doll that made you cry out in shock when you caught a glimpse of it sitting on a shadowed chair. A dog drags M3GAN through a hole in a fence and then bites Cady’s arm. (This bully had earlier forced a sharp object into Cady’s hand and pushed her around.) For Cady, M3GAN becomes a friend and companion who always listens, always plays. She just happens to be working on a new project that she had been keeping under wraps at the popular toy company she works for. And it left her battered and bruised, physically and emotionally. Gemma is simply an overworked, thirtysomething robotic engineer who’s ill-equipped to deal with a kid being dropped in her lap.

Hey, doll! We meet the team behind horror icon M3GAN, the killer kids' toy tearing up TikTok. Next stop: the multiplex.

“I’ve watched this film more times than I can count on my television and my iPad, but it’s very different to watch it in a theatre full of people who bring very different sensibilities,” she says. “I wanted her to have elegance and class.” During the creative process, giving M3GAN a touch of class evolved into making her even more lifelike. “Not only were they in a rush for her to show up at the beginning – ‘Come on, bring us our girl’ – But once she shows up, I don’t want to spoil things, but she does some really horrible things that they were cheering for. “And then as I carried on reading the script,” Williams says, “I was sweating and panicking because I didn’t know who I was rooting for and I didn’t know what was going to happen. “It’s a really dramatic moment where M3GAN is being asked if she’s done something really terrible, so I wanted her to skirt that question in a way that felt comforting”. “And what’s so terrifying is that she can do all these things that a parent can’t do, but also do things that they can do, but do them even better.” At times, this film is so frightening that 11-year-old McGraw says she “probably wouldn’t be allowed to watch it” if she weren’t one of its stars. “M3GAN is really creepy and disturbing,” McGraw adds, “but at the same time, she’s kind of cool”. “That’s always the bar because I am a good actress, not a great one,” she continues. “For me to ask someone to leave their house in this day and age and pay money for a movie ticket, I really have to believe that I’m going to give you entertainment and you’re going to have a blast,” she says. “When I first read the script, I thought Gemma was awesome,” says Williams, who is also an executive producer on the movie. Her name is M3GAN – short for Model 3 Generative Android – and she’s the seemingly flawless prototype for the lifelike doll that Gemma believes will become a revolutionary, “must-have” toy.