With Blumhouse’s Halloween trilogy closing up last October, the renowned horror studio may have been wondering where their next franchise was coming from – enter M3gan.
Halloween connects with various demographics but this Jason Blum and co. aiming for that teen market. Co-written by Akela Cooper and James Wan, collaborating again after the fantastic Malignant, it may seem bold but this could be the modern generation’s Chucky.
A young girl loses both her parents in the cold open, and is sent to live with her auntie, who hadn’t really planned on having kids. Add to this she is working on an AI doll that could change the face of children’s toys forever.
She is working on the titular doll, and as you can expect things go badly when M3gan goes rogue and the bodies start piling up.
The best thing about the film is that it is self-aware (much like M3gan) to know how absurd its premise is but it doubles down on it, making it truckloads of fun.
Some beats can be telegraphed but the film really cuts loose in its final 20 minutes when it becomes full-on carnage. Blumhouse, Cooper, Wan and directed Gerald Johnstone knew what they had so its inevitable that M3gan will return – and I can’t wait to see what they do next.
M3gan is now screening in UK cinemas.
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