M3GAN

if I could give it 0 stars I would this was movie was such a disappointment not a horror more of a comedy I thought I was going to get a slasher movie like chucky instead I got one of the owlsen twins doing a tiktok dance

m3gan, chucky and annabelle walk into a toy store, who’s clearing?

Alas, the film does slip towards industry-standard punch-ups in the last 15 minutes. But there is enough promise in this cheeky, witty, incisive shocker to let us look forward to inevitable sequels with something like enthusiasm.

Yes, Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN is pulled from January’s bucket of mostly low-budget pablum, but it’s cheeky and knowing enough to stand out from the slop.

It’s a crowded subgenre but among all of its haunted/psycho-killer doll forebears and contemporaries, M3GAN is still brisk, fresh, and delightfully compelling.

Trace Sauveur

Austin Chronicle