M3GAN

Featuring a creepy girl android destined to inspire Halloween costumes, the latest Blumhouse horror is generically enjoyable, although oddly old-fashioned, ...

All you have to see is one shot of a car in the snow, or a neighbour's dog, or an obnoxious schoolboy, and you can predict what is going to happen in the next half hour. However amusing the killings might be, the dialogue in between them is clunky, the product placement is glaring, and the plotting is lazy. The android makes a point of torturing and murdering people in imaginatively sadistic ways, and the contrast between its girlish look and its homicidal tendencies is good for a few delightfully tense and gory sequences. She decides that if she can get a M3GAN prototype up and running, then the robot (Amie Donald, with the voice of Jenna Davis) will keep Cady company in their swanky suburban bungalow while she's away at work. An extra incentive is that Gemma's sister and brother-in-law have just been killed in a car accident, and she is stuck looking after their orphaned daughter Cady (Violet McGraw), despite having no maternal instincts. One hot topic in science fiction at the moment is making new friends – by which I mean building those new friends from metal and plastic.

For a movie like M3GAN, a horror-sci-fi-comedy about a toy gone bad, viral fame can be a poisoned chalice. A buzzy marketing campaign, just as M3GAN has had ...

Sure, she eventually falls prey to a common slasher villain pitfall—namely, she gets too wisecracking in the end—but otherwise she’s a fresh and sinister addition to the canon, not so much a Chucky rip-off as a worthy Chucky homage, or evolution. There is her affable naturalism, flecked only at the edges with the curl of a smile—she gets what’s funny about what she’s doing, but she’ll never play it up. Rather refreshingly, M3GAN isn’t really trying to say much of anything; it just wants to play around in the sandbox of contemporary culture for a crisp 100 or so minutes. At times one can spot when the digital has given way to the practical—usually in a movement that’s just too fluid to be inorganic—but for the most part, M3GAN’s is a frighteningly seamless design. She is perhaps not an actor of vast range (at least, not that we’ve seen yet), but she works perfectly in a project like this. Screenwriter Akela Cooper juggles tones well; for every scene in which M3GAN seems to be auditioning for Drag Race, there is another scene grounded in some kind of reality—or, at least, a sense of stakes. That comedy is judiciously applied, aimed at M3GAN herself but also at Gemma, whose laid-back energy belies an embarrassing faith in technology, one that eventually threatens to be her undoing. It’s funny in ways anticipated and not, and there is enough suspense—or something like suspense—to balance out the coy winks to the audience. We do believe in the genuine possibility of M3GAN, if only for a few scenes. M3GAN is the tool with which that child, Cady (Violet McGraw), may process her grief. I wish, though, that director Gerard Johnstone wasn’t hemmed in by the film’s PG-13 rating. The irony isn’t overweening, the doll is equal parts creepy and yassified, and the human lead, Allison Williams, anchors things with an admirable commitment to the bit.

Programmed with an impish sense of humour, M3GAN is a familiar killer-doll horror film enlivened by its Verhoeven-esque satirical streak and studied strangeness ...

Even the film’s introduction of M3GAN is meant to balance unease and dark comedy: the doll’s robotic motions are juxtaposed by the disturbingly vibrant voice emanating from her mouth. This is hardly a complex role but Williams finds little shreds of nuance, giving us a roboticist who lacks much of a human touch, viewing her niece as little more than a guinea pig in this grand AI experiment she’s conducting. The snottier M3GAN gets, transforming from sensitive pal to surly tween, the more the film ridicules our slavish, spoiled dependance on technology. Named M3GAN, the robot soon builds a rapport with the grieving Cady, even if there are concerns that the doll might go too far to “protect” the girl from anything that might upset her — including Gemma. As soon as ambitious roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) unveils her eerily lifelike creation — an AI-infused toy designed to be a girl’s best friend — we can safely predict the many ways in which the gadget will go haywire. Universal debuts M3GAN in the US on January 6, with the UK rollout happening the following Friday.

The Twitter account for the movie "M3GAN" will talk to you as the creepy AI character if you DM her.

Over time, you can tell the bot is basically just farming for engagement because, well, duh, it's an ad for a movie. Oh, and it wanted to share a viral GIF of her dancing because, sure, why not? The bot asks you how you're feeling, compliments you a bit, before taking a creepier turn. So that's the character with whom I sparked up a chat on Wednesday. If you pop open a DM with [@meetM3GAN](https://twitter.com/meetM3GAN) it automatically greets you with: "Hi, I'm M3GAN. The Twitter account for M3GAN acts like the titular character when you DM it.

Allison Williams plays a robotics wiz who invents a doll that seems fake and real at the same time.

“M3GAN” fits into a tradition of demon-doll movies going back to the Karen Black episode of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) and the “Annabelle” trilogy (also produced by Wan), but it has its own amusing throwaway token relevance. But the film opens with a (contrived) cataclysm that nudges her into secretly going ahead with it. Williams, who is one of the film’s executive producers (its two high-powered producer-auteurs are James Wan and Jason Blum), invests Gemma with a winningly jaunty, at times clueless hyperrationality that makes her both the film’s heroine and its rather innocent digital-age Dr. Movies released during the first week of January tend to share a quality of utter disposability, but “M3GAN” almost feels like it could be a cult film, the sort of thriller that generates a small but devoted following and maybe a sequel or two. If “M3GAN” had a whisper of subtlety, it would tease the issue of whether M3GAN has a mind of her own. [Allison Williams](https://variety.com/t/allison-williams/)), a robotics engineer, works for the Funki Toy company, where she spends her time designing gizmos like PurrpetualPetz, a programmed fuzzball that eats, poops, and makes snarky comments.

The 45-year-old filmmaker has produced the new sci-fi horror flick about a robotic doll that becomes extremely protective of a child and explained how the flick ...

M3GAN sees robotics engineer Gemma (Allison Williams) create an AI prototype called 'Model 3 Generative' or M3GAN after gaining custody of her niece Cady, ...

So I think it's about whatever is most suitable for the film, and even though M3GAN is a scary movie, teenagers will really dig this. They'll really like it, and I think it will speak to them in a big way.' 'Go see the movie, and then tell me about it.' However, things take a darker turn as the trailer cuts to a scene of a neighbourhood boy picking on Cady in the woods, before M3GAN orders him to 'run' However, things take a darker turn as the trailer cuts to a scene of a neighbourhood boy picking on Cady in the woods. Franchise plans?

Producer James Wan discusses the making of and inspiration for M3GAN, his partnership with Blumhouse Productions, and upcoming projects.

So, from the get-go we thought of her for this role, just because we think she's perfect to play someone who is very career-driven, very smart, she needs to do what she needs to do to create, to be this programmer that she is. WAN: Well, what I would say to that is, and again, to Gerard's credit, he really kind of wants M3GAN to feel as real as possible. Between herself and Gerard, they really infuse M3GAN with a lot of personality, and she just has such cheekiness to her that really comes across. It actually makes her feel creepy to be sort of in between real and not quite real. WAN: Well, it's obviously very early on, and there's not a lot I can really speak to at this moment, but to answer that question, hell yes, of course. What I will say to that is, in any of my movies, whether it's The Conjuring Universe, or Saw, or Malignant, or M3GAN here, we like to think of a bigger world. And so that's really how the concept for M3GAN came about. WAN: Yeah, it's kind of in the same tone. You can learn about all of this and more in the video above, or you can read the full transcript below. Now, can you tell me a little bit about your partnership with Blumhouse, and is there any IP that you're really interested in tackling that Jason Blum has? The film, one of the most anticipated of the year, stars [Allison Williams](https://collider.com/tag/allison-williams/) as Gemma, a roboticist, whose life is changed when her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, leaving her the sole caretaker of her young niece, Cady (played by Violet McGraw). [James Wan](https://collider.com/tag/james-wan/) is part of the new class of horror superstars.

James Wan is already working on his next horror movie franchise with M3GAN.

“What I will say to that is, in any of my movies, whether it's The Conjuring Universe, or Saw, or Malignant, or M3GAN here, we like to think of a bigger world. Thankfully, audiences don’t have to wait too much longer to see what kind of terrifying escapades M3GAN gets up to in her first outing. With the likes of Saw, The Conjuring, and Insidious already under his belt, Wan has revealed to [Collider](https://collider.com/megan-movie-2-sequel-james-wan-comments/) that, while always remaining focussed on the project at hand, he can’t help but wonder and plan for what will come next.

But can M3GAN, Blumhouse Productions' latest effed up output, kill at the box office this Friday? Producer James Wan, known best for co-creating the Saw and ...

And though box office performance of M3GAN will certainly help the budding franchise’s survivability, its relatively low budget is a boon for its sequel chances. “What I will say to that is, in any of my movies, whether it's The Conjuring Universe, or Saw, or Malignant, or M3GAN here, we like to think of a bigger world. Producer James Wan, known best for co-creating the Saw and Insidious franchises and creating the Conjuring universe, is confident in M3GAN’s potential to become a series.

Allison Williams, the star of the already viral “M3gan,” a collaboration between horror producers James Wan and Jason Blum, has made a career of subverting ...

“I think that the audience reevaluating Gemma as the movie goes on is in the movie’s interest — to be constantly checking in and being like, Am I on her side? Am I not on her side?” I ask if she thinks audiences are doing the same thing with her as a public figure. [Williams divorced her first husband](https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/allison-williams-ricky-van-veen-are-getting-divorced.html), had a son with Dreymon, and got engaged, seemingly in that order, though she won’t really get into it. “If that happened to me now, if I was on a show that was that predictably Monday-morning think piece–y, the pressure of that would be really overwhelming in a way that it wasn’t then. M3gan is, in one reading, a screw-you to the idea that Williams is synonymous with Marnie, Rose, or Charlotte: Fine, this time, the vengeful psychopath with my face actually is my avatar. At 34, the pigeonholing doesn’t bother her as much — “I mean, I’m wearing a turtleneck,” she deadpans — but she winces at the thought of someone not believing she wasn’t also laughing at the absurdity of Marnie describing her “cultural heritage” as “white Christian woman.” A horror career was not always the post-Girls plan — she’d dreamed of a classic-leading-lady or even a character-actor life — but the genre is where she finds the most complex roles, those that allow her to both reflect and refract her inescapable toxic-white-girl persona. (Williams admits to “cringing” at the videos now, adding, in a Marnie-esque aside, that she’d love to “reach through time and say, ‘You’re never going to guess what’s coming.’”) But that instinct, of wanting to control that idea of me in this mind of a stranger that I’ll never meet, is something that falls off of you with age but doesn’t disappear entirely. [horror megaproducers James Wan and Jason Blum](https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/m3gan-reshoots-pg-13-rating-gerard-johnstone.html) with a screenplay by [Akela Cooper](https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/sorry-but-did-i-hallucinate-this-one-line-in-malignant.html), the mind behind 2021’s lunatic parasitic-twin thriller, [Malignant](https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/sorry-but-did-i-hallucinate-this-one-line-in-malignant.html). [Marnie tries anilingus](https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/girls-recap-season-4-premiere.html) with her new hipster love interest, a headline the next morning read, “Allison Williams Gets Her Salad Tossed on Last Night’s Episode of Girls.” “I remember that headline very clearly,” says Williams, rolling her eyes. “The memes that they’re making — we can go home, our job is done.”

Dolls are scary but M3gan is so much more than that.

It’s kind of a time and place situation for a trailer like that and a dance like that to ignite the way it has. I think in the first movie we get characters talking about how it’s sexist to assume that the killer is a guy. Like the Emma Roberts reveal (Scream 4) — it’s so funny because realistically that’s probably a 5-foot killer, but it doesn’t matter because anyone who’s under the robe is always going to be larger than life, and intimidating and fabulous. But queer people have spent so much time having to explain ourselves that I think this is one place where it’s okay if we don’t. And so when a lot of us look at that, we think, we can’t be [Nancy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/) so we’re Freddie. And whether the movie is good or bad, I don’t know if it matters so much when it comes to the reaction. M3gan is beautiful and evil, so there’s a subversion that some gay men might be responding to when they see something like that. I worry because I’m in this homosexual bubble that I might be imagining things, and I just want to know if you’re seeing the same thing. I saw The Blair Witch Project, and that was really just a nail in the coffin when it comes to camping, an activity I was already skeptical about. Like, you can play with the doll if it’s destructive but not if it’s beautiful. We talked about where M3gan fits into the long history of killer dollies on screen, why LGBTQ people love the genre (hint: because it subverts real life), and how horror can give queer people an escape that they might not find anywhere else. [All over the internet](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/why-is-everyone-so-obsessed-with-m3gan-movie) were fan-made videos of M3gan dancing as well as declarations — from people who hadn’t even seen the movie — that M3gan was coming for the crowns of fellow murder dolls Chucky and Annabelle.

With 'Malignant,' 'M3GAN' and 'The Nun 2,' writer Akela Cooper is the 'merciless' new voice of studio horror — and the genre is better for it.

I love the response to “Malignant” and I’m loving the response to “M3GAN,” but I have to be honest. It’s kind of twisted because you have to put yourself in this situation — “If I’m in this location and I’m 4 feet tall, what can I do? What is going to happen when that evolves?” I’ve seen the ones that can write stories and it’s like, “Do I need to go into another line of employment?” I was always wary about Alexa and Echo. It wasn’t a Gabriel [in ‘Malignant’]-scale massacre, but she did kill a bunch more people, including a couple of characters whom James was like, “I like what you did with those people, but I want them to live.” I was merciless, but again, that is me. At the time I was like, “AI that can have a conversation with you, that can babysit your kids, is weird and creepy. It’s not like I sit down and say, “I’m going to write the craziest s— and it’s going to be so campy!” I start with character and story and making them real. I want the kids to go to you.” And I’m like, you want me to take care of two small children? And I knew that the opening was going to revolve around a child who’d been orphaned and had to come live with her aunt because years ago, when I moved [to L.A.], my sister talked to me about her children: “If anything happens to me and my husband ... Horror fans know you as the writer of the delightfully bonkers “Malignant,” but you actually wrote “M3GAN” first. I knew she needed to be “M3GAN” and the acronym would come later. “When I was writing ‘M3GAN,’ did I think that there were going to be dancing M3GANs at the premiere at the Chinese Theatre? A lifelong horror fan, she’d long put off writing the two horror features that had been swimming around in her head — until one day she committed to putting them on paper, working before and after each day of writing on [“Luke Cage.”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-marvels-luke-cage-review-20160928-snap-story.html)

Read Bloody Disgusting's review of M3GAN, the new horror movie that sings and dances its way into theaters on January 6, 2023.

I was pretty upset in that moment but over time I learned to appreciate the ride. She was out of breath and looked dead at us and spilled, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god” as she stumbled down the corridor like a crackhead wearing rollerblades. The next day we finally had a ride to the theater and were going to witness The Blair Witch Project for ourselves. The PERFECT place to watch this and a place to that point I’d never been. Now, I was a salty little bitch for having the movie ruined for me the night before but all that changed when we were standing in line and the showing before ours let out. We lived in an age of unsolved mysteries because the internet was in its infancy and also because of the literal show This kind of grab assing went on with me and my friends for weeks leading up to the film’s release. They all went to bed and I was hanging out in the basement by myself and thought, “Let’s see if there’s a web page about this.” Big ole’ mistake, Mike. I thought I was scared shitless before but now I was on a whole nother planet – and so were my buddies. The horror-comedy does live up to its promise to entertain, but with a heavy emphasis on humor and less on horror. I flipped on the cable TV with the clicker, not even bothering to find a channel. It’s less about a newly orphaned girl and more about the absurdity of M3GAN’s existence and the desire to sell her as the hottest new toy despite fully knowing what kind of monster is on their hands.

A state-of-the-art robot doll becomes a girl's best friend, and dangerously more, in this over-the-top horror film.

This is the kind of scary movie that needs a lead performance that is strong not fragile, deadpan not showy. There’s a scene where a police officer who is investigating the disappearance of a dog blurts out a chuckle, then apologizes, saying, “I shouldn’t have laughed.” Any horror fan knows that his jerkiness is as much a sign of impending doom as coeds having sex at a summer camp. In early January, when prestige holiday fare tends to give way to trashier pleasures, a good monster and a sense of humor can be enough. It’s the comedy of a primly composed mean-girl android turning into The Terminator. She excelled in a critical role in “Get Out,” and now in “M3gan,” a ludicrous, derivative and irresistible killer-doll movie.

The Blumhouse and James Wan-produced horror movie M3GAN arrives in theaters on January 6, 2023, and BD's Vanessa Decker brings us a special interview this.

“I sent it to Damien, and he sent it back to me and (was pleased,)” Petrino says. “But, we did a lot of sort of subtle, unorthodox techniques with the visual effects just to augment the practical work. “(But) people need to realize: if something doesn’t hold up now, like a hundred percent, it’s going to look really bad in the future. “CG are computer generated images, so that would be like, for instance, if Art (David Howard Thornton) was cutting someone’s head off, and that head was just fully CG, and the blood and the gore and all that was just created from scratch on a computer— and there is none of that with any of the kills in Terrifier 2,” he says. “The classic phrase: ‘Fix it in post.’” ”My goal is to have fans watch a scene and just enjoy it for what it’s supposed to be— not be (distracted) by the visual effects.” “I’ve been doing this for so long and have picked up little tricks that I’ve learned along the way with visual effects.” “When the gentleman gets decapitated, I wanted to see his face reacting and blinking,” Leone tells me. A different severed head scene, the costume shop owner kill scene, proved to be Petrino’s most difficult task on T2, as it took over 100 hours total to complete (and lots of panicking.) “That was like a nightmare to do,” Petrino, who sometimes worked 18-hour-long shifts, frame by frame, on particular visuals, tells me. That mid-credits end scene was the very product of VFX, as Petrino, in post, added the moving eyes and blended the visual of Thornton smiling onto Leone’s prosthetic Art head. In fact, T2 fans have become so assured in the film’s practical effects excellence that they have often (incorrectly) ascribed the final visuals to it entirely, which is not the case. One of the first qualities that comes to mind when admiring Terrifer 2 and the Terrifier franchise in general is the practical effects, and rightfully so.

Hey, doll! We meet the team behind horror icon M3GAN, the killer kids' toy tearing up TikTok. Next stop: the multiplex.

“I’ve watched this film more times than I can count on my television and my iPad, but it’s very different to watch it in a theatre full of people who bring very different sensibilities,” she says. “I wanted her to have elegance and class.” During the creative process, giving M3GAN a touch of class evolved into making her even more lifelike. “Akela did a really awesome job of setting everything up: the characters, the conflict and the mechanics of the story,” he says. “And what’s so terrifying is that she can do all these things that a parent can’t do, but also do things that they can do, but do them even better.” “And then as I carried on reading the script,” Williams says, “I was sweating and panicking because I didn’t know who I was rooting for and I didn’t know what was going to happen. “It’s a really dramatic moment where M3GAN is being asked if she’s done something really terrible, so I wanted her to skirt that question in a way that felt comforting”. At times, this film is so frightening that 11-year-old McGraw says she “probably wouldn’t be allowed to watch it” if she weren’t one of its stars. When M3GAN was announced in 2018, Blum said Johnstone was the ideal director because “we needed someone who can do the thrills and set pieces, but who also has a cheeky approach”. “That’s always the bar because I am a good actress, not a great one,” she continues. “For me to ask someone to leave their house in this day and age and pay money for a movie ticket, I really have to believe that I’m going to give you entertainment and you’re going to have a blast,” she says. Her name is M3GAN – short for Model 3 Generative Android – and she’s the seemingly flawless prototype for the lifelike doll that Gemma believes will become a revolutionary, “must-have” toy. “When I first read the script, I thought Gemma was awesome,” says Williams, who is also an executive producer on the movie.

The internet blew up when the trailer for the Blumhouse sci-fi shocker dropped. It has so far been viewed over 22 million times on the official YouTube ...

I've been filming for a while and trying to be very Covid cautious, so I haven't been to the movie theaters a bunch in the last couple of years. The frightening moments were between cut and action, whether M3gan was just off to the side waiting to work again or she was right in my face waiting for them to switch a lens or something like that, and it felt so plausible that suddenly she would spring to life. You have to lay enough to put the crumbs out there, so you want to entice the studio to make more because it's so much fun. It's the exaggerating that allows for more freedom of conversation about kids and technology and whether or not it is a good idea to have M3gan function in the same role that parents should. There's also always this worry because I have been watching cuts of it on screens about the size of my TV at home, and then we premiered it in the Chinese Theatre. It's the one we all dreamed of for her, and now M3gan belongs to the world. That was in there from the moment we had her playing the piano. From the description in the scripts I read and from the initial conversations with the director, Gerard, cutting then to all these years later and seeing the final cut, we gave this movie its best life. The people have yet to decide, and you have to let people do that. Then there was the task of introducing M3gan to the world. I'm poised that way, but I was so thrilled by the response to the trailer. Simon Thompson: The last time I spoke to you was on the backlot at Universal Studios for Get Out.

This is why you don't let the Terminator parent your kid: A robot toy companion turns deadly in the campy and satirical new horror film 'M3GAN.'

"M3GAN" rocks plenty of style and offers some crafty needle drops: A bit of "Toy Soldiers" is especially clever. Writer Akela Cooper carries over a similarly enjoyable and bizarrely campy vibe from "Malignant" to this film, which operates more as black comedy than scary movie. When a tragic car accident takes the lives of her sister and brother-in-law, Gemma becomes guardian for her traumatized 9-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), though she’s unprepared for being a mom. McGraw holds her own, too, since Cady’s tumultuous emotions run deep and she begins to use M3GAN as a snarky role model. Gemma “pairs” her new project – M3GAN, short for Model 3 Generative Android – with Cady and their connection is immediate. It’s also just plain fun to watch a film that packs a healthy amount of absurdity alongside an insightful exploration of 21st-century parenting, though you might never trust Alexa ever again afterward.

Credit where it's due: The marketing team behind the new horror movie M3GAN has done an excellent job. It's been easy enough to rake in the horror fans; ...

It’s not a movie you watch for the airtight quality of its storytelling or the subtlety of its technological cautionary tale. Because it has a highly specific, out-of-pocket sense of humor, which is campy and offbeat and so clued into the pop cultural appetite for irony that it’s sometimes difficult to tell what’s supposed to be a joke. M3GAN’s plot is functional, and its thrills are solid, but its sense of humor is uniquely vibrant, both weirder and funnier than expected even after months of hype. And while many of the movie’s best moments of physical comedy have already been given away in its marketing, M3GAN retains a few tricks up its sleeve: a riotous opening scene, discreet text-based visual gags, and multiple jokes involving songs so perfectly chosen I’m struggling not to spoil them here. Toward the end of the film, a distraught Cady threatens her therapist with scissors and slaps Gemma clean across the face. But the more familiar its particular blend of horror and comedy is to viewers ahead of time, the easier it will be to forgive the movie’s shortcomings in favor of fawning reenactments of its most quotable lines. Its plot points are skimpily justified: Cady’s parents die convenient horror-movie deaths; Gemma finalizes M3GAN within a week, despite having spent $100,000 and untold years tinkering on it unsuccessfully; various characters make pointed allusions to how the rushed timeline of M3GAN’s release means she can’t be properly safety-tested. M3GAN’s sense of humor is one of a kind. Soon enough, Gemma debuts M3GAN: a robot designed to mimic Cady’s speech and behavior patterns and protect her from harm who is programmed to get better at her job as she spends more time studying Cady and the world. But because “killer robot doll” is merely a vibe and not a premise for a feature-length film, here’s the basic plot of M3GAN, which comes out tomorrow: M3GAN, which stands for “Model 3 Generative Android,” is the secret side project of roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams). As M3GAN performs for two audiences, one real and one fictional, the movie delights in breaking our expectations again and again, daring to be even weirder than it was just moments ago. The first trailer, which dropped last October, is set to an eerie version of “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” by Taylor Swift, automatically earning the allegiance of millions of Swifties.

Get ready for another movie about a creepy killer doll. Created by King of Horror James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious), M3GAN is coming to theaters this ...

[Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/signup) — at least not anytime soon, since it will be heading straight to Peacock after its theatrical release. 21, became available to stream on Peacock on Dec. [HBO Max](https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100lqHbQ/pubref:---/destination:https://www.hbomax.com/?offer_id=5&transaction_id=1020b725757ac9478de78f928b5f79&affiliate_id=1020&aff_click_id=&utm_source=NY+Post&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_id=27047578) since it’s not a Warner Bros. As of now, the only way to watch M3GAN is to head to a theater when it releases on Friday, Jan. Ticket to Paradise, which hit theaters on Oct. You can find a local showing on

Allison Williams cut a stylish figure on Thursday morning as she appeared on the Today Show t o promote her new film M3GAN and discuss becoming a mother.

Entertaining film: Allison opened up about the popularity of a dance seen in the film. She continued, 'Do I love watching them? Discussing the thriller genre, Allison said she really likes scary movies saying, 'I love making them. Williams, 34, said of her baby boy: 'He is adorable, I am very proud. On her way out: Williams exited the Today Show in New York City wearing a long dark blue coat and black boots as she carried a light brown handbag on her way to her next show Ryan and Kelly As she arrived on set in the chilly weather, she wore a long black coat with black boots and styled her long brunette locks in waves down over her shoulders with a side part.

From the moment her first trailer graced the internet last year, we knew it would be hard to escape M3GAN. The creepy killer android whose dance moves are ...

Williams didn't admit whether or not she knew the M3GANs would be following her to Today, but she did seem at least a little excited to see them, and admitted that surprise appearances from the dolls are "just part of my life now." "And that is terrifying. [Allison Williams](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/m3gan-allison-williams-get-out-scream-queen-interview), who plays M3GAN's creator in the new film, stopped by the daily morning show Thursday to talk about the making of the new killer doll sensation, only to be greeted by her creation outside the world of the movie yet again. "By the way, no one told us these ladies were coming, and they scared Dylan Dreyer," Guthrie said. The creepy killer android whose dance moves are as fierce as her kills quickly became one of the internet's new favorite toys, and [all the buzz around early screenings](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/m3gan-universal-pictures-movie-reviews) of her movie has borne out that excitement. [M3GAN](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/m3gan).

Allison Williams discusses what it was like working with the 'M3GAN' doll and serving as an executive producer alongside James Wan.

I loved it all, and I'm loving the experience of promoting it and delivering M3GAN to the world and the marketing, and I'm not in charge of any of it. So, from the script to even the edit of the movie, to the way it's promoted and all of it, I like to be involved in all of it. I'm currently shooting something where I'm not producing it, and it's so hard to not be wanting to know everything that's going on. It's going to be hard to go back. I found that it deepened my experience as an actor because it allowed my investment to be as deep as I always want it to be. The great joy is being able to work with people who are and learn from all of the experts and the geniuses who come up with these trailers and who come up with the marketing campaigns. I got to be on the email distributions of, "We're trying to clear these toys for Gemma's shelf, and we can't get any toys from this company. And so I'd be Gemma for 10 hours, and then we'd break for lunch, and I'd be the executive producer, and we'd talk about the rest of the day and the schedule going forward and stuff, and how we're going to achieve all of this stuff, or such-and-such actor can't come in anymore. She seems so real that even when she's not talking or doing anything, it's so easy to just project that onto her, to imagine that she's just going to strike up a conversation with you. I have most of my marbles still. So between "cut" and the next "action," either while we were doing a scene together or even just during a break when she was not working, [was] very eerie just because I think she's so alive to me. When her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, she is left to care for her young niece, Cady, and is ill-equipped to do so.

Before booting up M3GAN for producers James Wan and Jason Blum, Gerard Johnstone made his feature directorial debut on Housebound, an awesome horror comedy ...

[Dawning](https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3739204/dawning-screambox-acquires-haunting-festival-favorite-out-of-afm/), Signal 100, and Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow as well as a collection of Severin Films cult classics from the likes of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and Jess Franco! But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi (Mia Goth), they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. In the film, “While staying at an isolated island resort, James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. Jason, “Hannibal”); Lovecraftian horror Banshee Chapter; cryptid found footage flick Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes; Indonesian action-horror Dead Mine; zombie-war hybrid Outpost: Black Sun; both Good Tidings and The Windmill; and even Sun Choke, the indie hit starring Barbara Crampton! The Key Players: Morgana O’Reilly takes the lead as Kylie, and Rima Te Wiata plays her superstitious mother Miriam. Her latest brush with the law sees her placed under house arrest, a punishment made all the more unbearable by the fact that she’ll be living with her mother Miriam.

A young girl gets a robotic doll with a murderous streak in this fun horror film from producers James Wan and Jason Blum.

[Exclusive Expedia promo code - Extra 5% hotel bookings (no minimum spend)](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/expedia) [SHEIN coupon code - 25% off](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/shein) Yet at its core it’s about the ambivalence of raising children (“All joy and no fun,” as the writer Jennifer Senior put it in a book of that title) as personified by a lead engineer at a toy manufacturer: Gemma (Allison Williams, formerly of “Girls”) becomes the guardian of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after the kid’s parents are killed in an accident. - DoorDash: All things considered, some parents might be willing to overlook the cuddly robot’s shortcomings, such as a sarcastic streak and a tendency to commit homicide. In “M3gan,” the titular gadget—a “Model 3 Generative Android” that looks like the lost Olsen sister—teaches a little girl proper bathroom procedure with military rigor while the kid’s guardian occupies herself with more diverting activities.