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Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic here with another Slate spoiler special.

This week we're going to be talking about Megan or M3 Gan. The much promoted new horror

movie from Blumhouse Studios that has made quite a surprise hit in theaters for being a

mid-January release. Joining me today to talk about Megan is Jeffrey Bloomer, who is the

Slate features director and longtime Slate writer, contributor. Hi, Jeff. Hi. I'm glad you're

here to talk with me about Megan. I know you have strong feelings about this movie. They're

positive ones for the most part, right? Yeah, I mean, I should practice this in two ways.

One, I'm a lover of the killer robot or slash doll movie, particularly dolls. Like I even

watch, there's a new Chuck E. TV show on sci-fi and I actually watch that. Like I love this

kind of a dementia junk. And this is a particularly good example. And secondly, I saw in a theater

filled with people who were very much already enormous fans of this character as if this

existed for like 40 years and bringing down the house at the screening I was at. So, yes,

I very much like the movie. I thought I was extremely funny and fun. Not as much of a horror

movie as we'll discuss, I think, but I did think overall it was cleverly executed version

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