If you're not big on physical media, you can still gain access to the unrated cut and a slew of bonus features with the Digital release next Friday — Feb. Making it PG-13 was something that happened after the fact, but it was always so close to PG-13, anyway. At first, MEGAN is a huge success, bonding with Cady and doing exactly what Gemma set out for it to do.

The film tells the story of a creepy doll who goes rogue after coming into the possession of an eight-year-old girl, and if box office figures in the US are anything to go by, it looks like Wan and Blum have another hit on their hands. I even remember thinking early on, 'This could be PG-13, and some of my favorite films like Drag Me to Hell are PG-13. M3GAN, orModel 3 Generative Android, is an artificially intelligent lifelike doll developed by Gemma. Girls and Get Out star Alison Williams leads the cast as roboticist Gemma – who designed the titular doll – while child star Violet McGraw, whose previous credits include The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep, plays her niece Cady. M3GAN is currently playing in theaters and available to rent/purchase (without the special features) on VOD platforms like Vudu.

The film ultimately went through a number of reshoots to nab a PG-13 rating for its theatrical rollout, but director Gerard Johnstone felt that the sinister implication of violence (as opposed to showing it outright) made the thing much scarier as a result. Then when Gemma unexpectedly gains custody of her niece, Cady, she decides to use a prototype of M3GAN to help with new parenting duties. This poor little girl, utterly devastated by her mom and dad’s death and without any friends her own age in a new city, is an obvious candidate to be M3gan’s new pal. To be properly developed, M3gan needs to “pair” with a little girl owner; she needs to sync up with an actual human, to learn her owner’s speech patterns, behavioural traits and emotional needs, so she can be properly close with her.

Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) after a tragic accident kills her parents. At around 1:17, M3gan uses the frame she was suspended from, to hoist Cole up off the ground, almost succeeding in hanging him. But this would only be possible, if M3gan was heavier than Cole (because the cable was just strung through a simple pulley- A one to one ratio, with no mechanical advantage) And earlier, M3gan was light enough for a 12yo boy to easily carry; Certainly not the same weight as even the lightest adult man. Gemma is a brilliant AI robotics engineer who designs a realistic doll that is programmed to be "a little boy's best friend.After a profitable theatrical run, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD almost two months later onDec. As is only fitting for a horror film, it receives a wide release in the UK on Friday 13th January – one week after it arrived in cinemas across the Atlantic. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators’ opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. Not a robot so much as a hi-tech Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together with bits of Robocop and Terminator, but cheekily enjoyable just the same.

Blumhouse Productions has been a major force in the horror genre since 2007's Paranormal Activity became a worldwide sensation. Unfortunately, things start to go horribly wrong as the AI programming of M3GAN turns out to have a "killer instinct. M3GAN won't hold back when the unrated version of the hit film arrives on Blu-Ray and DVD Tuesday, March 21. Blumhouse does this more than anyone lately and yet still manages to rake in profits from mostly generation z unfamiliar with the old classic horror films that came long before. Derivative though M3gan undoubtedly is – with creepy fake toy TV ads that are a ripoff-homage to Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop, and a freakout finale that references James Cameron’s android meisterwerk – there are some adroit satirical touches about dolls as toxic aspirational templates, dolls as parodies of intimacy and sensitivity and tech itself as sinister child-pacification, with kids given iPads the way Victorian children were given alcoholic gripe water.The android was designed to be a child’s best friend and loyal companion, especially when caretakers like Gemma need help. However, M3GAN soon develops a violent streak when she becomes overprotective of Cady, leading to tragic consequences.

The hit series (based on the long-running Child's Play film franchise) was recently picked up for a third season. It's like 'Yes, you do have to cut away at certain times' but it's fun having to rely on sound and suggestion so much.

Slight futuristic advancements in plot points and cgi can only differentiate from the old so much when something feels so familiar. Someone to watch over me … from L, Cady (Violet McGraw), M3gan (voiced by Jenna Davis) and Gemma (Allison Williams) in M3gan. It is funny when M3gan sings Titanium to Cady as a lullaby, but is then capable of switching to snarling rage, and Chieng is good value. That means viewers in the UK could be able to watch it with a Sky Cinema or NOW subscription by sometime near the end of February.