2022 · sci-fi · horror · slasher
M3GAN
Directed by Gerard Johnstone1h 42m2022
A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.
Our read: M3GAN (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal sci-fi · horror · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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