Are you ready to meet M3GAN? The robotic child's companion is about to scare up a storm on a Cineworld screen near you, and she's won over the critics as well. As proof of that, M3GAN stands at an impressive 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
When the M3GAN prototype doll is enlisted to help an orphaned young girl through her grief, no one can foresee the carnage that will ensue when the robot steps beyond its brief.
Reviewers have praised the movie as a knowingly campy and hugely entertaining slice of satirical horror-comedy. The film has some serious horror pedigree behind it: the producers are James Wan (Saw; Insidious; The Conjuring) and Jason Blum (Halloween; Get Out; Happy Death Day), which promises an enjoyably spooky time the movies.
So, what have the critics said? We've selected a few of the rave responses that will convince you to make an appointment with M3GAN immediately.
"M3GAN -- thank god -- delivers the goods. Under the canny, high-spirited direction of Gerard Johnstone, whose past work includes the New Zealand horror-comedy gem Housebound, it’s incisive, sardonic, and totally mean-spirited. A perfect mix." – Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent
"This is not the morose, carnage-soaked horror of dank basements and clammy night terrors; most of the movie happens in bright daylight, every maniacal head tilt, ungodly hip swivel, and murder-by-gardening-tool calibrated for screams that end not with a gasp but a giggle. M3GAN came to play, and possibly reboot her motherboard for a sequel. Are you not entertained?" – Leah Greenblatt, EW.com
"M3GAN, you see, is all about fun – a fact made startlingly clear in its hilarious opening scene, mimicking a Saturday morning kids TV advert. Perhaps we should have seen that coming – the film’s screenplay was written by Akela Cooper, whose 2021 cult hit Malignant was one of the most deliriously unhinged horrors in recent memory." – Al Horner, Empire
"M3GAN might be too frequently funny to be terrifying, but it’s never too silly to deliver tension and vicious thrills. It seems a safe bet that the killer doll will return, not to mention become an in-demand costume next Halloween." – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“M3GAN deftly threads the needle in terms of serving as a warning and still delivering the requisite tension and horror within its modest means and the confines of a PG-13 rating, all in a generally crowd-pleasing fashion. Even Gemma’s cluelessness about child rearing mostly works on a comedic level, eliciting the intended groans." – Brian Lowry, CNN
It's time to meet the latest name in horror. Click here to book your tickets for M3GAN, releasing at Cineworld on January 13.
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