Blumhouse horror movies can be either hit or miss. Sometimes you get underrated gems and other times you're disappointed. But it's undeniable that Blumhouse has put out some of the best horror films in the past decade.
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Freaky review â gore and cliches abound in body-swap teen horror
Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton have fun switching the roles of teenage girl and serial killer, but does it add up?
Kathryn Newton as the Butcher in Freaky. Photograph: Universal Pictures
Kathryn Newton as the Butcher in Freaky. Photograph: Universal Pictures
Sun 4 Jul 2021 04.00 EDT
A high-school body-swap comedy blended with a homicidal slasher horror: itâs one of the few genre mashup combinations that has the potential to be greater, rather than less, than the sum of its parts. Factor in the casting of Vince Vaughn, who gets to be both monolithic and terrifying, like a murderous Easter Island head, and also disarming, goofy and kind of adorable. And add to this Christopher Landon, a writer-director who, having penned several of the P
Scarlett Johansson s ass-kicking Avenger gets a stand-alone movie at last in Black Widow.
No longer just a sidekick to Iron Man or Captain America, Johansson gives a cracking performance as Natasha Romanoff, a whip-smart, Russian-trained killing machine.
Now she s on the side of the American Avengers, and begins a mission to destroy the Russians Red Room programme, which trains and brainwashes young girls, including herself, to become Black Widow killers and spies.
Natasha is joined and almost immediately upstaged by her little sister Yelena, played by British actress Florence Pugh with oomph, wit and often hilarious, childlike enthusiasm.
Scarlett Johansson s ass-kicking Avenger gets a stand-alone movie at last in Black Widow.
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