freaky stars catherine newton as millie, a high school student who accidentally trades bodies with aer known as the bliss field butcher who is played by vince vaughn. the switch happens after the butcher has attacked millie, so when she walks up to school acting very differently to usual, her classmates assume she in shock rather than a middle age murderer in the body of a teenage girl. meanwhile, millie wakes up as a wanted man in desperate need of a shower and must persuade herfriends to help her. we've got our choreography and our mic. writer—director christopher landen, who wrote four paranormal activity films and directed happy death day among many other things, balances gore and scares with a witty, contemporary take on the body swap genre. the title is a nod to the freaky friday movies which centred on a mother and daughter. but the gender swap allows freaky to look at the different powers wielded by a burly white man and a pretty young woman. even if it spells it all out in ironic capital letters. i want my body back. come and get it. freaky also touches on gender identity an