Freaky

An entertaining slasher with an interesting premise. Putting a six-foot serial killer inside a short, shy and retiring blond works mainly thanks to Vaughn’s talent at acting anything from a taciturn psychopath to a babbling high school girl. But Newton swaps her zombie-like step for confident strides... Luckily, Christopher Landon doesn’t wait a minute to make fun of genre clichés, even ridiculing himself. The juicy gore and great horror atmosphere (a great opening) does much to counterbalance the shoddy screenplay. This had many more possibilities to be explored, but they were ignored. But still, a solid above-average movie. (09/12/2020)

After the time loop of Happy Death Day Christopher Landon tries something different, and once again it is very playful, entertaining, reasonably original, and this time it also has guts when it came to gore, for which I praise it. The idea of a serial killer unknowingly switching bodies with a high school girl is really cool, and Vince Vaughn is probably the biggest attraction of the whole film. He is funny and acts really well (this body sucks!). I liked the opening ten minutes, which reminded me of classics like Friday the 13th and Scream, and then of course the circular saw, which is the boldest gore scene in the whole film. Those who enjoy comedic slashers that are playful and entertaining will be satisfied, and even though I expected more gags and gore (in this area, The Babysitter has the upper hand), overall, no better slasher has been released this year. Story ****, Action ***, Humor ***, Violence ***, Enjoyment ****, Music ***, Visuals ****, Atmosphere ****, Tension ****. 7.5/10. (04/12/2020)

A film cobbled together from slogans, references, allusions, and reflections, a film that basically doesn't exist because there's nothing original in it. No scene or character here has any integrity. A masterpiece of the world's laziest screenwriting in which a 50-year-old Landon tries his "How do you do fellow kids?" thing on us again and foreign critics swallow it in a panic lest they be branded out of touch. That after a brilliant career reboot Vince Vaughn feels the need to clown around like Rob Schneider is literally quite sad to me. (28/10/2021)

Christopher Landon proves for the third time that he has great ideas, but as an executor he can't squeeze great films out of them. In doing so, he manages, perhaps for the first time, a workable horror atmosphere and solid gore, plus he has two very decent actors at his disposal. Unfortunately, however, as always, it falls horribly short. It's a shame, his ideas deserve a more imaginative execution. But I've been thinking that since the first Happy Death Day. (07/12/2020)

A great idea and fun from beginning to end. That is, until the first ending, because the second, unnecessarily drawn out, was really redundant. Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton are perfect in both roles, and I really liked the script, which simultaneously crashed and exploited all sorts of horror clichés. It's likeable, bloody, colourful, sexy and funny. Sometimes, that’s all I need. (15/01/2022)