A lot of modern horror franchises leave me cold. I was never one for The Conjuring or all its many, many spin-offs, and I can see why people like things like the Terrifier movies or those Smile things, but they are awfully repetitive and predictable to me.
M3GAN didn't say anything new that hadn't been said in a hundred other films about killer dolls, and this one didn't even come with the voice of Brad Dourif. But the title character did have a peculiar and striking way of moving that carried a lot of the film's charm.
But I don't think I've ever been quite as repulsed as I was by the trailer for the forthcoming sequel. It's not that it's gross or anything, just that it's something I would never be interested in watching. A predictable escalation of the concept, with another version of the killer doll - but this time it's upgraded! - and the villain of the first film is the only one who can help our heroes.
Any residual charm from that gloriously freaky dancing scene in the first film evaporates when the new trailer's big money shot is this ugly as fuck robot parachuting into the villain's lair. Anything creepy is lost in something that looks like more dopey superhero shit, and while that is usually my kind of thing, the world really doesn't need more dopey superhero shit.
There are still movie trailers out there that actually make me want to see a film, but there's also an increasing amount that leave me like this, deeply uninterested in going to the cinema to see it.
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