PREVIEW: Freaky (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers), Kathryn Newton (Blockers), Katie Finneran (Baby on Board), Celeste O’Connor (Selah and the Spades), Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), Misha Osherovich (The Goldfinch), Uriah Shelton (Lifted)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day), director, writer; Michael Kennedy (film debut), writer; Jason Blum (Get Out) and Adam Hendricks (Family Blood), producers; Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane), composer; Laurie Rose (Free Fire), cinematographer; Ben Baudhuin (Colossal), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Millie Kessler (Newton), a high school student, becomes the latest target of an infamous serial killer known as the Blissfield Butcher (Vaughn) – but when he stabs her with a magic dagger, the two of them find that they have switched bodies with each other. Now, Millie – in the Blissfield Butcher’s body – must try and stop the Butcher – now in Millie’s body – before the switch becomes permanent…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The creators of Happy Death Day now bring you a fun and bloody reinvention of the body-swap movie, with Vince Vaughn going full The Hot Chick as he inhabits the soul of a high school girl.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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