This Body-Swap Horror Is Pure Campy Fun

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Starring Vince Vaughn as a teenage girl, Freaky is not your average horror comedy. Directed by Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Happy Death Day), this body-swap funfest follows ordinary high school student Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton), who finds herself in an extraordinary situation when she becomes the target of the town's infamous serial killer, the Blissfield Butcher (Vaughn). Stabbed by The Butcher's mystical dagger, Millie wakes up transformed: she is the Blissfield Butcher, and he is her. Worse still, she has only 24 hours to get her identity back before she's changed forever.

The movie begins with a group of friends mocking the «geriatric serial killer» before they are all brutally slain in their mansion. With one-liners such as «Don't underestimate a straight white man's propensity for violence, Isaac,» Freaky marks itself as this generation's Scream: a razor-sharp teen slasher for a progressive Gen Z audience. Indeed, attempts at feminism are made early on, with the same girl telling her boyfriend, «It's a vagina, not an all-night drive-thru,» before she is staked through the heart by the bad white man.

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Then viewers meet Millie's friends, who are also Gen Z stereotypes. Her friend Josh (Misha Osherovich) is a sassy gay guy with lines like «I love your black wiener, Mr Daniels,» and «You're a f***ing piece, girl.» Her other friend Nyla (Celeste O'Connor) is a socially conscious black girl who chastises Josh for his inappropriate language. Millie herself is rather ordinary, but even she is responsible for the quote: «I’ve never been so stressed and excited at the same time in my life. #Stresscited #NervesOfSteel