Freaky (2020)
5/10
"Don't leave me alone with murder Barbie!"
28 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This was a little too teen oriented for my taste, but it did have it's moments. The best were Vince Vaughn's spots following the body swap with Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) in which she became the Blissfield Butcher. The opening scene had some creatively gruesome murders committed by the Butcher when Vaughn still occupied his own body, the sickest was the broken wine bottle stuffed down the throat of the male teen. The tennis racket header was also kind of nasty. Once Millie/Butcher convinces her high school friends what happened as the result of an Aztec knife curse, a countdown begins to make the body exchange occur again before the result becomes permanent. Some of the murders are exceptionally violent for younger teens so I'd say discretion is advised. Not to mention an early simulated sex scene that's a bit in poor taste, but I guess I did just mention it. If I had to do it over again I'd give this movie a pass, but since I stumbled upon it thinking it would be more cleverly written, the die has already been cast.
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