Universal Pictures has released a trailer for M3GAN, its latest horror film. The story, which will star Allison Williams, is a partnership between horror mastermind James Wan and Akela Cooper.
Wan, who is putting the finishing touches on Aquaman 2, and Cooper’s real story for M3GAN involve Gemma (Williams), a brilliant roboticist who did work for a toy company. Gemma creates M3GAN to be a child’s best friend and a parent’s best ally. When Gemma unexpectedly starts to gain custody of her niece, she sees it as a chance to test M3GAN on a human test subject while also assisting her niece in her grief. Sadly for Gemma, the relocation has unintended consequences.
The new M3GAN trailer from Universal Pictures begins as if the horror film is a heart – warming story about an aunt and her niece adjusting to a new living situation. As the story progresses, Gemma admits that she is unprepared to parent her orphaned niece Katie and decides to demonstrate to her an experiment she is conducting at work. She introduces Katie to M3GAN (Model 3 Generative Android) and assures her that M3GAN always will keep her physically and emotionally safe.
Katie and M3GAN initially get along well, dancing together and becoming attached. When M3GAN starts talking back to Gemma and criticising her parenting, it’s clear that the film is taking a page from the Chucky film series and also that M3GAN is a killer doll. M3GAN’s delusory and strong attachment to Katie gets to drive her to murder those she perceives as threats, including trying to attack another child who would seem to be bullying Katie. Gemma grows suspicious of the doll, but eliminating a killer robot has never been easy.
The trailer is appropriately creepy. M3GAN’s design is reminiscent of a real little girl, and she looks almost human with her oversized sunglasses. But she frequently enters the uncanny valley, running on all fours, looking human-but-not-quite, and dancing far too fluidly for a metal being. She recalls another one of Wan’s horror projects, Annabelle from The Conjuring Universe. Despite her small stature, she demonstrates AI’s ability to cause harm to humans.
With true artificial intelligence becoming more accessible to humans, the concept of rogue AI is much more relevant than ever. Humanity is left to ponder its continued presence in the face of devices that can think faster, are far bigger and more powerful in any form they can take, and it could possibly supplant people as the dominant self aware form on the planet in sci-fi horror films like M3GAN.
M3GAN will be released in theatres on January 13, 2023.
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