M3GAN is a perfectly programmed campy horror hit — with one small flaw

Image: M3GAN and her best friend, Cady. Universal Pictures. Movie review by Hoai-Tran Bui. Inverse – January 4, 2023.

M3GAN gatekeeps, gaslights, and girlbosses her way to horror icon status.

It was a viral dance seen around the world — and the making of a horror icon. From the moment that M3GAN twirled, twerked, and cartwheeled her way toward one of her many bloody kills in the latest Blumhouse movie, it was clear: campy horror is in a new era, and it is thriving. M3GAN, directed by Gerard Johnstone from a screenplay by Akela Cooper and a story by Cooper and James Wan, picks up the bonkers, go-for-broke absurdity of Wan’s own “Malignant” and runs with it. […]

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Video: M3GAN – official trailer – Universal Pictures.