That is, until all laughter and cheering are replaced by genuine tension, and unsettling gore. With M3GAN, the trope is elevated to a master class in uniting an audience against even the film's own leads, until the audience's collective longing to see despicable people punished seems to will it into existence. A slasher film giving a bully or jock what's coming to them is nothing new. But at its very best, it shows just what transcendent experiences are possible when filmmakers and their audience are lock-step through the tension, gore, laughter, and satisfaction of a well-told story. In every single scene, M3GAN delivers a showcase of what modern horror blockbusters aspire to. But what nobody saw coming was its mastery of absurdist comedy on a level reached only by the likes of Netflix's forever-viral I Think You Should Leave. Build it into a terrifying premise combining multiple modern fears of loneliness, digital isolation, amoral AI, and of course, old-fashioned killer toys. Start off with an unsettling doll artificially brought to life. It's hard to overstate just how much of a revelation M3GAN proved to be, from a premise easily dismissed as familiar, if not worn out.
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