As outrageous, hilarious, and deranged as it is masterful in horror cinema, M3GAN is, simply, a triumph.ĭungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was one of the most unexpectedly delightful movies of 2023. at precisely the moment the filmmakers wish it.ĭirector Gerard Johnstone, writers Akela Cooper and James Wan, and everyone else involved with M3GAN have already taken a victory lap, as the film dominated social media (while still being somehow underappreciated). That is, until all laughter and cheering are replaced by genuine tension, and unsettling gore.
With M3GAN, the trope is elevated to a master class in uniting an audience against even the film's own leads, until the audience's collective longing to see despicable people punished seems to will it into existence. A slasher film giving a bully or jock what's coming to them is nothing new. But at its very best, it shows just what transcendent experiences are possible when filmmakers and their audience are lock-step through the tension, gore, laughter, and satisfaction of a well-told story. In every single scene, M3GAN delivers a showcase of what modern horror blockbusters aspire to. But what nobody saw coming was its mastery of absurdist comedy on a level reached only by the likes of Netflix's forever-viral I Think You Should Leave. Build it into a terrifying premise combining multiple modern fears of loneliness, digital isolation, amoral AI, and of course, old-fashioned killer toys. Start off with an unsettling doll artificially brought to life. It's hard to overstate just how much of a revelation M3GAN proved to be, from a premise easily dismissed as familiar, if not worn out.
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