![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The former plays the notorious (and of course, masked) serial killer known in his sleepy town as the Blissfield Butcher, who sets the film in motion by murdering a group of unsuspecting teens in a gruesome opening with loud echoes of “ Scream.” The latter is her high school’s perennially bullied outcast Millie-a smart, lovely, introverted girl in frumpy clothes. One big exception to the film’s on-paper obviousness is its pair of risk-taking performances by leads Vince Vaughn and the consistently great young actor Kathryn Newton (“ Blockers,” “ Big Little Lies”). Just don’t expect to be surprised a great deal by it. In other words, "Freaky" is a fun, frisky, and nostalgic ride that delivers laughs, various inventively bloody kills, and on occasion, even some 21st-century-appropriate observations on gender norms and sexuality. This kind of widespread homage is both a bug of “Freaky”-the movie is never as unpredictable as you really want it to be-and the main feature that endearingly caters to the nerds of such fare, which admittedly includes this critic. It’s almost as if the filmmaker thought, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to” just like the rest of us, and took it upon himself to restore a little bit of everything, from the original “ Friday the 13th” to “Freaky Friday” and beyond, in one movie packed with familiar breadcrumbs, complete with a vintage title card. That enthusiasm stabs its way through “Freaky” so resolutely that Landon’s latest outing feels a tad heavy-handed in mixing together a body-swap farce and a high-school slasher with one too many references to the comedies and horror staples of yore. ![]()
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