Everyone's favorite tiny tech terror M3GAN is officially seeing her universe expanded with an upcoming spin-off named SOULM8TE set for a January 2026 release.

Kate Dolan (YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER) will direct the “erotic thriller”, hitting theaters in January 2026.

  • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    God watching these movies in order is going to be a nightmare when the next one is going to be named like M4TILDA

  • herrcaptain@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    I was pleasantly surprised with M3GAN, so I’m looking forward to this. It’s got a different writer/director whose work I’m not familiar with, but looking at her IMDB it seems like a good fit for her.

    • DrGiltspur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I enjoyed it. It was good campy fun and the girl playing M3GAN was appropriately creepy.

      • herrcaptain@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Yeah. I used to watch a lot of horror/thrillers and most left me underwhelmed. As such, I had low expectations for M3GAN but it left me pleasantly surprised. Definitely campy, but that’s obviously what it was going for.

        Now I’m thinking I might have to watch it again this weekend.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      It was fun but not quite Malignant fun. Hopefully they got full camp on the next one.

      Edit: wait, erotic thriller? Curious where they take this creepy doll movie. Creepy sex doll? Could be fun.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          James Wan needs to drop the smelly fish superhero and come back to direct bonkers horror movies. I want more ridiculous pseudo-Gallio that suddenly turns into a wire-fu action flick.

          M’three’gan hit some of the notes at times but took itself a bit too seriously at times.

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I think the hardest I laughed in a theater that year was when the in movie commercial says “imagine what it can do for kids whose parents aren’t dead!”

      I don’t know if they can thread the needle again but I’ll give the sequel a shot

      • herrcaptain@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I don’t know if they can thread the needle again but I’ll give the sequel a shot

        At least with the premise of the sequel being about a sex-bot it opens the doors for all sorts of different madness.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    The real question is, when the robot goes crazy, will the protagonist die, freak out but escape in the end, over out of terror, or be a supportive accomplice? The last one would be the most interesting and unique spin on it, I think.