10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Won Us Over

When M3GAN was first announced, it wasn't quite clear how self-aware it would be, though the trailers seemed to suggest that it had a fair sense of humour about itself.

That was thankfully the case, and though the tame PG-13 rating ultimately placed a ceiling on how much gory fun it could truly be, the film nevertheless found an unhinged niche of its own.

This was typified by the outrageously funny mid-film scene where Brandon (Jack Cassidy), a boy who has been bullying M3GAN's owner Cady (Violet McGraw), gets his just deserts courtesy of the pint-sized android.

After Brandon accosts M3GAN, she rips his ear off and chases him through the forest like a feral beast, at which point he trips and falls into the nearby road, where he's fatally creamed by a passing car.

Movie studios are averse to killing kids on-screen, even in horror movies - and especially in PG-13 ones - yet M3GAN dared to go there, and went there in the most hilariously campy manner possible.

At this point, there was no doubt that it was a film that knew precisely what it was - and also what it needed to be.