Vince Vaughn is excellent as the psychopath-turned-Pippi-Longstocking in this fast-moving, tongue-in-cheek thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Slasher films need to emulate the slashers themselves and refuse to stay dead, and Freaky is a great case for why

| Jul 16, 2024

Before Freaky even introduces its high concept body-swap premise, director Christopher Landon delivers a whole slasher film in miniature...

| Feb 6, 2024

[Director Christopher Landon] has even more fun with the body swapping humor than he does with the conventions of the stalk-and-slash conventions. But he also turns the opportunistic kills into a something of a dark wish fulfillment revenge fantasy.

| Feb 3, 2024

Hilariously gruesome! This film's unique blend of horror and humor had me thoroughly entertained. Big win for slasher fans.

| Aug 9, 2023

Despite its unique plot angle and a stunningly hilarious lead performance by Vince Vaughn, Freaky is a film that, while staying wacky, also stays safe, sticking to puns and cheap jump scares rather than exploring its ideas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Of course, like every body-swap movie, Freaky gets tired of its basic story halfway through and starts running out of jokes, kills, and twists. But, I appreciate that it tries until the last moment.

| Jul 20, 2023

A hilarious horror-comedy about a teenage girl who wakes up in a serial killer’s body after a near-death encounter, Freaky is the slasher version of Freaky Friday we didn’t know we needed...

| Oct 27, 2022

Freaky is another wicked win for Happy Death Day’s Christopher Landon, who blazingly balances horror and humor in this subversive slasher.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Eventually the film’s premise begins to run out of gas, only making it to the finish on the backs of Vaughn and Newton.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

... This film is gold and gives Vaughan the chance for wonderful physical comedy as a teenage girl trapped in the body of a middle-aged man.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2022

Freaky takes advantage of its gender-bending premise to explore teen gender stereotypes and the somewhat arbitrary privileges afforded to young women and middle-aged men.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2022

What the movie does well is engage a horror-savvy viewer with its playful understanding of genre, making the experience like a game to see how Landon and company will turn certain tropes or references into a joke between the filmmaker and audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

The film offers nostalgia and appreciation for slasher films from the past and, ultimately, is a satisfying watch for every slasher fan. It's bloodier than you can expect with gore flooding the screen.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2022

It's witty and engaging, providing plenty to laugh at and be horrified by. And the hilarity of Vaughn portraying a 16-year-old girl is consistently top tier.

| Oct 6, 2021

Freaky isn't the most groundbreaking horror movie ever made, but it's a pretty high-water mark in our ongoing teen horror renaissance-have you heard about it?

| Oct 2, 2021

Wouldn't seem so gruesomely indulgent if it felt like a story and not an outline.

| Original Score: C | Sep 9, 2021

Wit and charm are thin on the ground in this drab and busy movie that expects us to find extreme violence hilarious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2021

While it's basically a one-joke premise, director Christopher Landon and a terrific cast are having enough fun to make the movie a guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2021

Freaky is entertaining as hell and deliciously filled to the brim with stunts that provide the requisite amount of blood and guts, with the violence continuing to amp up until it reaches its climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2021