Culture news This horror film which grossed ten times its budget is coming to Netflix: AIs haven’t finished scaring us!
It is true that the spectacular progress of artificial intelligence has frightened more than one person in recent years. Obviously, it’s a theme that had a good chance of being taken up in a whole bunch of horror films. Thanks to its original idea, this film, which didn’t cost much, was a real hit at the box office. If you haven’t seen it, Netflix has a great gift for you!
Netflix offers you a horror film that could traumatize you from AI
Lately, Netflix is, in a way, starting to do what we call (in video games) shadowdrop, that is to say, to announce, to everyone’s surprise, the arrival of films, series or anime within its catalog without having discussed it beforehand. As an example, we can cite adding one of the most popular anime in recent years, namely Spy x Family. When the American giant does not make a revelation on the big day, it simply communicates a short time in advance. Yes, if certain additions make the headlines of the release calendar for the coming month, others are mentioned only a few days before being viewable on the platform.
The example that interests us today, it’s the arrival, from March 28, of the horror film M3GAN which was one of the most maddening commercial successes of the year 2023. Presented at the end of 2022, the film was released in cinemas on December 28 and was able to conquer the public at breakneck speed, so much so that its very low budget was profitable in less time than it only takes to turn on the terrifying doll from the film. During its first weekend of operation, M3GAN grossed no less than $30 million worldwide. Ultimately, the film ended its run to the tune of $122.3 million in revenueor ten times more than the amount invested (12 million dollars).
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The success of the M3GAN doll is only just beginning, it won’t stop scaring you
In terms of revenue, the success of M3GAN is really surprising, but the film was not only satisfied with this financial success. As for critics, whether press or spectators, the reception given to this horror feature film was very warm.. On the site Rotten Tomatoes, we can see that the film received 93% recommendations from critics, compared to 78% from the public. Obviously, such a feat was very likely to attract another: thanks to its performance at the box office, M3GAN opened the doors to a second part which should arrive in May 2025.
Directed by Gerard Johnstone, the film M3GAN tells us how Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, must now look after her eight-year-old niece after the death of the little girl’s parents. In order to help her overcome this tragedy, she imagines an android doll equipped with very advanced artificial intelligence. Maybe even too much… After a certain time, this “mechanical best friend” becomes more and more possessive and excessively dangerous, giving rise to terrifying situations and threatening those who decide to take her away from the little girl in one way or another. ‘another one.
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