Freaky

Christopher Landon is clearly profiling himself as an expert on this kind of light-hearted teenage comedies with a horror premise, and I quite like it. There’s always a couple of things to complain about (here, for instance, the conversation in the fitting room of a shopping mall, it’s awful), but in the field of mainstream consumer products, I like this a lot more than McG’s The Babysitter, mainly because of the likeable characters (not only the heroine in both her bodies, but also her sidekicks are quite cool for the standards of teenage slashers) and the humour, which is very simple but not cheap or pandering. The opening scene is downright brilliant. 7/10 (12/04/2020)

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. (12/07/2020)

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. (12/04/2020)

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. (12/09/2020)

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. (01/15/2022)

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. (10/28/2021)

I feel that one of the main problems with this film is the absence of horror as such. The creators tried to make up for it, as is often the case these days, by gallons of blood and cross-sections of human anatomy, which just didn’t do it for me. I only enjoyed Vince Vaughn and the way he perfectly captured those girlish mannerisms. Well, two stars are more than enough. (01/14/2021)