The terrible horror-comedy Graveyard is one of the saddest and most boring of all movies.Filled with hundreds of tasteless parodies, laughterless messes, ridiculous garbage, and perhaps a few unfortunate movies that weren’t even intentionally designed to be laughed at. It feels like a tightrope walk trying to balance two extremes the creators seem to have in mind in hopes of laughing one moment and screaming the next. Follow in the footsteps of classics like the Chucky movies play housedirector Gerald Johnstone and the team behind the new horror-comedy M3GAN Recognize that laughing and screaming are not really that different. And most importantly, either can be the key to a great time.
written by malignant Writers Akela Cooper and James Wan (Director) malignant, magic trick, InsidiousWhen Aquaman), M3GAN Follow Caddy (Violet McGraw), a young girl who recently lost her parents in a car accident and now lives with her aunt Gemma, who has made a career out of it.girl When Get outof Allison Williams). In what looks like good news for Cady, Gemma is a roboticist at a high-tech toy company working on a new ultra-realistic doll called M3GAN (Amie Donald) (short for Model 3 Generative Android).The best artificial friend a child can have, and of course, if you’ve seen the trailers or posters, you should know that M3GAN is advanced enough with her AI (or any other newly developed tech in horror movies). Similarly, in the end a bit too far away.
For fans of the killer doll genre, some of this plot may sound a lot like 2019’s Awful. play house The reboot replaced (and returned) Chucky’s voice actor, Brad Dourif, in favor of Mark Hamill.It also removed every ounce of charm the series has cultivated over the 40 years since its inception play houseand replaced the story of a doll owned by a serial killer with a story about AI Ran Amok.
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But while there are certainly similarities, M3GAN Avoids all the pitfalls that plague the new play houseThe movie tried to trade bad meta-jokes for sarcasm, M3GAN Falls towards the original’s glorious tone play housewith completely straight-up meanness that is so ridiculous that it always turns into comedy at the exact moment.
M3GAN, like most of the Chucky franchises and Evil Dead films, was designed around the principle that the best horror comedy is to deepen the audience’s understanding. they are playing games with you These movies don’t tell you when it’s okay to laugh. They play their cruelest gags straight, rather than pausing for a punchline as in traditional comedy. They throw dark, comical joke after joke, make viewers laugh involuntarily, build tension, and finally settle with a cathartic giggle at the weirdest, most jarring moments — M3GAN’s killer puppet is Caddy turns a familiar pop hit into an unexpected Bedtime song for him, like a truly hilarious sequence.
Finally, these films lead to the conclusion audiences have been waiting for from the beginning. Waiting anxiously for the next safe laugh moment to relieve the pressure of comedy is no different than waiting for a terrifying jump scar when a movie foreshadows a threat. not. They are the exact same release valves, turned in different directions. Filmmakers who use both often enough, alternating with the right rhythm and intensity, can usually make the viewer stop caring about the difference and just get on board.
this could be the game M3GAN best performance. As with many of Sam Raimi’s best films, Guilt of the Dead 2 To Drag Me To Hellevery moment M3GAN Lovingly silly and cynically mean, that’s what gives it its power.
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Far from feeling trapped in the limited notion of a doll that is too smart to go out of control, M3GAN As often as it weaponizes ludicrous murders, it mines the comedy’s more authentic and dramatic moments. Cooper, Wan, and Johnstone hope that Gemma snatches the toys from the grieving Caddy, disgustingly laughing at the callous cruelty of taking them away because they are “collectible.” As much as I laugh at the objectively silly horror of M3GAN getting down on all fours and hunting down a vicious bully. Should we draw a hard line?
M3GANNot because the movie doesn’t start on the right foot (it does), but because it’s almost jarring to see Johnston so confident in his own unique tone. His film doesn’t even offer the slightest smirk or hint of sarcasm to let you know it’s a joke. Instead, from the first moment, it binds the viewer to a special blend of genuinely hilarious meanness, as if Johnstone is positive. And when that dam breaks, suddenly every moment becomes a riot.
It is difficult to determine whether this is the reason. M3GAN Mostly because Johnston and the writers don’t seem interested in anything.By the time the action goes into high gear and his M3GAN The film’s particular rhythm made almost everything that was happening onscreen hilarious, no matter how brutal it got.flat Charles Lee Ray He himself would be proud.
M3GAN It will debut in theaters on January 6th.
