‘Freaky’: Vince Vaughn’s Killer Performance Carries This Horror-Comedy With Few Surprises [Review]

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Dave McNary Film ReporterBody-swap horror comedy “Freaky” repeated as the winner of a seriously subdued U.S. box office with $1.2 million at 2,057 locations in North America during the Friday-Sunday weekend.The Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ movie stars Vince Vaughn as a serial killer and Kathryn Newton as a low-profile high schooler who inadvertently switch bodies on Friday the 13th.

It's my deep, dark secret (one I'm happy to admit to anybody) that I don't hate Gus Van Sant's Psycho. Sure, I'd watch the Hitchcock original 100 more times before wanting to revisit Vince Vaughn's take on Norman Bates, yet the much reviled shot-for-shot remake still interests me as a bizarre art project.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rapper Snoop Dogg is to voice and exec produce an animated comedy for Amazon with Vince Vaughn also exec producing.The streamer is developing Oaklandia, which is written by Daniel Dominguez (right), a writer for season two of HBO Max’s Michael B.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Freaky,” a body-swap horror movie from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, slashed its box office competition, debuting to $3.7 million over the weekend.In the coronavirus era, when nearly every movie scheduled for theatrical release has been postponed, those ticket sales were easily enough to nab first place on U.S. charts.

With its theatrical window deal with AMC Theaters in its back pocket, Universal released the Blumhouse body-swap horror film “Freaky” in theaters this weekend, where it performed consistently with other pandemic releases with a sluggish $3.7 million opening from 2,472 screens.Directed by “Happy Death Day” creator Christopher Landon, the film stars Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and a teenage girl who suddenly switch bodies.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSATURDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for updates: Universal/Blumhouse’s genre body swap comedy Freaky starring Vince Vaughn took in $1.45M yesterday, including Thursday night previews ~$200K, on what looks to be a $4M opening at 2,472. Universal, the only major Hollywood studio putting out consistent fresh wide product during the pandemic, can claim a three-week streak at No.

Vince Vaughn wound up seated next to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January, and found himself hit with backlash when video emerged of the “Wedding Crashers” star chatting with the couple and shaking hands with the president.

Vince Vaughn wound up seated next to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January, and found himself hit with backlash when video emerged of the “Wedding Crashers” star chatting with the couple and shaking hands with the president.

Vince Vaughn is defending his choice to shake President Donald Trump‘s hand during the College Football Playoff Game earlier this year.

Vince Vaughn is opening up about the outrage he received from many after he was caught chatting with President Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The self-proclaimed libertarian, 50, was seen talking with the president as First Lady Melania Trump sat between them, and despite shaking hands with Trump, as far as Vaughn is concerned, the incident was far overblown.

Somewhere between a presidential election and an increasingly dire coronavirus pandemic, something unexpected has happened. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have delivered a very funny, scary, and refreshingly progressive new flick, “Freaky.” And one of the reasons the Christopher Landon directed movie is so good is because of a scene-stealing turn from newcomer Misha Osherovich.

[Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen “Freaky.”]In Christopher Landon’s “Freaky,” 6-foot-5-inch-tall actor Vince Vaughn, who plays a serial killer, body swaps with 5-foot-5-inch-tall Kathryn Newton — and as it turns out, Vaughn had some tricks up his sleeve to help Newton embody that physicality.“Vince is so great — it was such a collaborative experience and he gave me so many great ideas and I got so inspired from him,” Newton told TheWrap.

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Freaky, the latest snarky scarefest from Happy Death Day writer-director Christopher Landon. Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies) stars as Millie, an awkward teen who, after being stabbed with a cursed dagger, wakes up in the body of the Blissfield Butcher, a serial killer (Vince Vaughn).

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA delightful mutant hybrid of two seemingly incongruous teen movie genres, cheeky Blumhouse satire “Freaky” might just as well have been called “Freaky Friday the 13th.” That’s essentially the pitch for a mashup that’s half slasher movie and half body-swap comedy, delivered with the self-aware wink of Wes Craven’s “Scream,” as a serial killer known as “the Blissfield Butcher” (Vince Vaughn) unwittingly trades places with his latest victim, dorky high school misfit