Review of Freaky (2020) by Imtheonlytye — 24 Nov 2020

**There will be some spoilers.** This was overall not a good movie. A few laughs from other actors, but Vince Vaughn made this movie watchable and somewhat enjoyable. If he were not in this then I would have walked out.

There's a handful of times where the movie is getting actually good overall and they ruin it with something very cringey or demonization of straight white men. The first scene set the whole mood... almost ruined the entire film.

The movie was basically a huge cliche. The amount of demonization of straight white men was obnoxious. One scene with Vince that I did not like, and actually made me very uncomfortable, was when Vince kissed this high school kid who Millie likes.

I wasn't uncomfortable because two dudes "kissed", but rather because of the age difference and whether it was a fake kiss or not it was very creepy. They forced two scenes that could have gone differently in, quite literally, anyway just to enforce a stupid cliche and demonize straight white men.

Like at the end when one of the football dudes brought Millie Kessler, who is the killer at this point, back to a quiet area with two other dudes waiting. The scene quite clearly pointed to him wanting to r*pe her with 2 other guys.

And then she ended up killing all three of them. Then another scene, also at the end, when Josh Detmer, who is the gay character, went up to another football guy asking where Millie went. The football guy brought him to the bathroom and kissed Josh.

When Josh pushed him off he then proceeded to call him the f-slur. Again unneeded and extremely cliche. Both these scenes, and other parts, just demonized straight white men for literally no reason. Especially these two specific scenes could have gone much differently and could have been more creatively written.

This entire movie had such toxic leftist ideologies. I don't understand why movies have been going in this direction. You can make a fantastic film without demonizing an entire group of people for no reason.

It's actually disappointing because this was written by Christopher Landon who did Happy Death Day 1 & 2 and those were extremely good. They didn't demonize anyone and were written very well. I'm not sure why he decided to make this movie trash.