Freaky

Freaky

2020

Trailer with narration not featured in the film

The release date was part of the high concept. Freaky Friday The 13th.

Because it’s a body-swap comedy between a masked slasher and a Final Girl.

(Although due to delays we finally got it in cinemas here on a non-13th Friday. By that point they could have just waited six weeks for the next one.)

So I watched the DVD on Friday the 14th, but we work with what we have.

You know how in movie posters they put the star names on top with the biggest star on the left and then a bunch of character pictures with them in the middle so some of the names and faces don’t line up? That always bugs me. But for this poster the mismatching names are on purpose...

(It’s a bit of a spoiler because we don't get to the chainsaw till the end.)

From Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon, making a career out of Buffyish horror-comedy spins on modern fantasy plots, it’s brisk and funny and silly-gory. (And has a bit of the “establish a normal day” bit that HDD required, to show how different our hero’s days before and after are.)

It takes almost half an hour to get to the swap, which surprised me because it’s the central concept you know about going in.

I was expecting it to stick to TV or movie type teen dialogue but it has some more realistically rough language in there.

Tagged for The Watch House because Milli and Ziggy did a body swap episode, and I threatened a Milli and Victoria one as well.