Freaky should have slayed. From Christopher Landon, the director of the delightful time loop slasher movies Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U, Freaky is a similarly irreverent genre mash-up. In this case, Landon has smashed together a slasher and a body-swap caper, as the name implies; it's a multi-layered call back to the Disney classic Freaky Friday, which in turn calls to mind the slasher franchise Friday the 13th, a series that's overtly referenced through giant date-declaring title cards within the film itself (and also happens to be the movie's actual release date, Friday, November 13).

Unfortunately, Freaky's fun premise is tripped up by clunky writing, and the performances from its two talented leads--Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn--are completely inconsistent with one another. Despite the germ of a great idea at its core, Freaky feels like a first draft of a script that could have used a few more passes, not to mention a director who could better shape Vaughn's and Newton's performances so that they actually resembled one another's characters at any point.