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12 Nov

Freaky Review: Body Swap Comedy Horror is a Gory Blast

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It’s such a perfect concept for a horror comedy it’s a wonder no one has done it before: a hulking male serial killer swaps bodies with a tiny, dorky teenage girl – chaos ensues. “Freaky Friday The 13th,” as the idea was initially pitched by co-writer Michael Kennedy. In the hands of Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U director Christopher Landon you get exactly what you expect – a funny, sharp teen romp full of inventive kills and excessive comedy gore. Detective Pikachu’s Kathryn Newton plays Millie, good natured but flighty teen who is always late for…
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11 Nov

How Freaky Walks the Gory Line Between Horror And Comedy

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Finding the right balance between horror and comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off successfully on film, but writer/director Christopher Landon has done it twice with Happy Death Day (2017) and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, in which a college student played by Jessica Rothe keeps reliving the same day on which she dies…and then gets to relive it in a different dimension. Now Landon gets a shot at a horror/comedy trifecta with Freaky, in which Kathryn Newton plays a high schooler who inadvertently swaps bodies with a hulking, unstoppable serial killer called the Blissfield Butcher…
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09 Nov

Freaky

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Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher (Vince Vaughn), her town’s infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. When The Butcher’s mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s bodies, Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she’s trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever. The only problem is she…
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