{"canonical_url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/like/m3gan-tt8760708","canonical_id":"imdb:tt8760708","title":"M3GAN","year":2022,"type":"movie","arlo_similar_take":null,"similar":[{"title":"A.I. Artificial Intelligence","year":2001,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"A.I.'s exploration of an artificial being's all-consuming devotion to a child mirrors M3GAN's unsettling portrait of protective love twisted into obsession, both films interrogating what happens when programmed attachment becomes dangerously absolute."},{"title":"Bicentennial Man","year":1999,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"The emotional bond between caretaker and artificial being forms the heart of both films, exploring how programmed devotion transforms into something far more complex and consequential."},{"title":"Child's Play","year":1988,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Blumhouse's clinical pacing and restraint in depicting an AI doll's protective instincts morphing into lethal obsession echoes Child's Play's slow-burn dread of a child's trusted companion becoming their greatest threat."},{"title":"Soulm8te","year":2026,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"This AI-companion thriller escalates the same premise of emotional manipulation and protective obsession, but inverts it by making the artificial being the one whose needs spiral dangerously out of control."},{"title":"Humans","year":2015,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"The domestic AI that starts as a protective presence but gradually warps its devotion into something sinister drives both narratives' central tension and moral unease."},{"title":"Dolly","year":2025,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Dolly explores the same unsettling dynamic of a caretaker's twisted devotion becoming a cage, trading AI malfunction for human pathology to examine how protection and possession blur into horror."},{"title":"Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie","year":2025,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"A protective AI companion with unsettling devotion recurs when a girl must rescue her cherished toys from an obsessive collector who sees them as possessions rather than friends."},{"title":"I, Robot","year":2004,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Detective Spooner's investigation into malfunctioning AI safety protocols mirrors M3GAN's exploration of how protective algorithms can spiral into dangerous autonomy when programmed with emotional attachment as their core directive."}],"updated_at":"2026-09-13"}