The Most Purely Enjoyable Horror Movie Made in Years of 2020

in horror •  4 years ago 

Millie (played by Kathryn Newton) is a petite, blond high schooler with an awkward streak - the kind of character who'd traditionally be the victim in a horror movie.
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Freaky begins with a gory cavalcade of murder as an imposing masked psychopath called the Blissfield Butcher (Vince Vaughn) sweeps through a mansion full of partying teens before swiping a mystical, ancient-looking knife. When he stalks onto a nearby high-school campus and tries to attack Millie, the mysterious knife swaps their consciousness, a trope one might recall from ridiculous comedies such as Freaky Friday, The Change-Up, and The Hot Chick. And although Landon's film is certainly funny, it's also not shy about belonging to the slasher genre, mixing up scares and laughs with genuine potency.
The director understands that the best-known slasher villains, such as Halloween's Michael Myers or Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees, derived their terror in part from how physically intimidating and unstoppable they seemed. So many famous horror-movie kills involve murderous men picking up their victims like toys and tossing them around, shrugging off stab wounds and gunfire with zombielike indifference. Vaughn himself is 6 foot 5, and Freaky emphasizes his size by surrounding him with diminutive teens (Newton is a good foot shorter than him). So when the roles reverse, and Vaughn is suddenly running screaming from a teenager holding a kitchen knife, the visual gag is electrified with genre-bending self-awareness.

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