“You can see that there’s a genealogy here that results in a TikTok-dancing murder robot named M3GAN. This is fundamentally some old, old stuff.”
– Choreographer
Sydney Skybetter, on how the impossibly slick dance moves of horror film
M3GAN’s titular dancing robot tap into deep-seated anxieties about nonhuman movement (e.g. the creepy marching of Boston Dynamics’
Spot)
