Film: M3GAN
Cast: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Jenna Davis, Amie Donald, Jen Van Epps, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Ronny Chieng, Stephane Garneau-Monten
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 102 min

Cinema has not only taken science to new frontiers only imagined ( the Steven Spielberg oeuvre and many others) but has also shown us how unfettered research/ experimentation controlled by big industry can inadvertently turn our lives into hell. M3gan is one such example - though I wouldn’t think that was the main objective here.

Blumhouse’s latest horror story may not be intended to malign science but it does so by generating scares through an inventive macabre association. The main storyline involves a devoted roboticist, Gemma (Allison Williams), a career woman with zero childcare experience, making use of her latest invention, a Model 3 Generation Android aka M3gan to befriend her orphan niece, Cady(Violet McGraw) who has not yet recovered from the death of her parents in an accident caused by the distraction ensuing from yet another digital creation- an obnoxious Furby-like toy called a Purrpetual Pet.