M3GAN Is Terrifying Even While Delivering a Movie Theater PSA

There’s nothing extra annoying than a moviegoer who can’t keep off their telephone—and there’s nothing extra terrifying than M3GAN, title star of subsequent yr’s killer-doll sci-fi horror story, which is already on the high of our must-see listing for 2023. What occurs when these two antagonists meet? Imminent massacre!

At least that’s what this new PSA from the Alamo Drafthouse—a series famous for its zero-tolerance coverage relating to telephone use throughout motion pictures—would have you ever consider. And frankly, whereas we haven’t even seen M3GAN in motion past the James Wan-produced movie’s trailers, we consider this warning is to be heeded. Or else.

Get ‘em, Meggie!

In case you’ve but to study extra about our favourite new horror icon, right here’s the official description of the film: “M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned eight-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.”

Produced by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious) and Blumhouse (Halloween, The Black Phone, The Invisible Man), and directed by Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) from a script by Akela Cooper (Malignant), M3GAN arrives in theaters—shhhhhhh!—on January 6.

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