M3gan 2.0

M3gan 2.0 a 2025 horror/sci-fi movie and sequel to 2022 horror movie M3gan. This one stars Ivana Sakhno (The Spy Who Dumped Me), Allison Williams (Get Out), Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows), Violet McGraw (The Haunting of Hill House), Aristotle Athari (Silicone Valley).

It’s been two years since the incident with M3gan. Someone has stolen the design and created a killing machine named Amelia that has gone rouge. M3gan resurfaces to protect Cady and stop Amelia at all costs.

M3gan was a fun movie, and this one looked good so I thought I would give it a shot. First thing off the bat is it isn’t a horror movie like the first one. It is labeled a horror movie, but it’s more of an action/sci-fi. It really doesn’t have anything to make it a horror movie, maybe a few killings? It’s a fun movie though, it has a lot of action and good fight scenes. Just go in knowing it’s an action movie. It also has heartfelt moments that tug at your heart strings that essentially humanizes M3gan. It turns M3gan into the good guy and has you rooting for her throughout the film. It raises issues with AI, which is a hot topic right now. It does tease at the end there could be a third installment, so we will see. Overall, it’s a good sequel and a fun watch. I give it a 7.5/10.

Imaginary

“Imaginary” is a 2024 horror and Blumhouse’s newest movie. It stars DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion), Taegen Burns (Blue Ridge), Pyper Braun (Erin & Aaron), and Betty Buckley (Split).

A mom (Wise), husband and her two step kids (Burns, and Braun) purchase, and move back to the mother’s childhood home. Her youngest stepdaughter (Braun) makes a new imaginary friend. While it seems innocent at first, it is soon reveled the imaginary friend has much more sinister intentions.

I went into this movie cold, not really knowing much about it, but if it’s a horror movie, especially by Blumhouse there’s a good chance I’m going to see it. It surpassed my expectations. It’s not exactly scary, but it is creepy. It gives you sense of unease through the entire movie, which is very hard to do. My only real issue with the film is its pacing, the first half or so is on the boring side, but once it takes off, it goes hard with the creepiness. The story is unique, and overall, it’s a great watch for any horror fan. Even with the slow start I still give it an 8/10.

Night Swim

First review of a movie from 2024, let’s get to it! “Night Swim” is 2024 horror/thriller from Blumhouse, it stars Wyatt Russell (Black Mirror), Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul), Amelie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), and Gavin Warren (Fear the Walking Dead).

A former MLB player (Russell) is trying to make a comeback but has been diagnosed with MS. He and his family move to a new house with a pool to help out with his water therapy. Little do they know the pool has a dark past. Soon they’ll find out exactly what dark secret the water is hiding.

First horror movie of 2024, so you know I’m going to see it. The reviews haven’t been very good, so I went in with the bar pretty low. It’s actually a pretty decent movie. I don’t think Blumhouse has put out a bad movie. The acting is pretty solid. It reminds me of if the Amityville Horror got a swimming pool. The dad slowly descends into madness due to the pool. I wish it went a little more in depth of exactly why the pool is haunted, it touches on it briefly, but that’s about it. Overall, it’s about as good as a movie can be about a haunted pool. I give it a 6.5/10.

M3GAN

“M3GAN” is the first big horror movie to come out in 2023. It’s from Blumhouse and stars Allison Williams (Get Out), Violet McGraw (I Believe in Santa), and Ronny Chieng (Crazy Rich Asians).

A robotic engineer (Williams) at a toy company is working on a revolutionary AI doll called M3GAN when her sister, her brother-in-law, and niece (McGraw) are involved in a fatal accident. The only survivor is her niece, and she now becomes the legal guardian of her. She thinks the doll she is working on will help comfort her niece during her mourning period. M3GAN quickly surpasses expectations with self-learning and adaptiveness. M3GAN will do anything to ensure her new friends happiness and safety, no matter how deadly the consequences may be.

I was a little hesitant to see this one. It looks like a rip off of the “Chuckie” series, and it pretty much is. A doll that goes on a violent rampage and kills people. This one is more current with our times with the development with AI technology and there could actually be something like M3GAN in our future, that’s what makes this movie creepy/scary. I didn’t find it either, but they did do a good job, making it suspenseful and there’s a couple of Oh Sh*t moments, which I always love in horror movies. I do wish they went a little bit further. There isn’t as much gore and killing as you think there would be. As soon as it starts to get ramping up, they’re already trying to stop M3gan. I read a thing saying there was originally a gorier rated R version, but they figured this pg13 version is scarier and that’s why they went with this. It is a good watch, but I think the rated R version would probably have delivered more. You can currently catch it in theaters. I give it a 7.5/10.

Freaky

‘Freaky’ is a 2020 horror/comedy from Blumhouse starring Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers), Kathryn Newton (Blockers), Celeste O’ Connor (Wetlands), Misha Oserovich (The Goldfinch), and Uriah Shelton (Lifted).

‘Freaky’ is slasher horror film that is about a serial killer (Vaughn), he finds Millie (Newton), a teenage girl, sitting by herself, waiting for her ride after a football game. He chases her down and stabs her, something freaky happens and they end up switching bodies. Now Millie has 24 hours to stab the killer with the same knife, or they will permanently be stuck in each others bodies.

When I first saw this trailer it reminded me of ‘Happy Death Day’ mixed with ‘Freaky Friday’, which makes sense because Blumhouse also put out ‘Happy Death Day’. However, after watching it, it’s more like ‘Freaky Friday’ mixed with ‘Friday the 13th’. You have this big, masked, killer stalking his victims, then he switches bodies with a teenage girl. I like the fresh take on the slasher movie. It has a good story line, and Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton really nail their roles when they “switch” bodies. Vince Vaughn channels his inner David Rose, and you can see him run around acting like a teenage girl, and who doesn’t want to see that? This is a must see, I give it a 7/10.