Freaky
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s Sam Adams is joined by Slate’s new staff writer Karen Han to spoil Freaky, the new body-switching slasher film. Think Friday the 13th meets Freaky Friday. Will high school outcast, Millie (played by Kathryn Newton), find her way back into her own body? Or will she be stuck in the body of a 6’5 serial killer (played by Vince Vaughn) forever?
You can read Karen Han’s review here.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Hosts
Sam Adams is an editor for Slate’s culture blog Brow Beat.
Karen Han is a Slate staff writer.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.9 | I see death. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent trade is paper. |
| 0:13.9 | No. |
| 0:15.4 | I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh. |
| 0:19.9 | What's in the box? what's in the box? |
| 0:25.3 | You get it! You blew it up! Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:32.8 | Hello, and welcome to this Slate spoiler special. I'm Sam Adams, the senior editor at Slate, |
| 0:42.8 | and today we'll be spoiling Freaky, a gory slasher movie twist on the classic body swapping comedy. |
| 0:47.2 | Joining me today is Karen Hahn, a staff writer at Slate. Hello, Karen. |
| 1:16.5 | Hi, yay. It's my first Slate podcast. Hooray, I'm so glad to be able to say those words, a staff writer at Slate, because we've known for a little while, but it just became public this week. I'm so happy to hear them. As I mentioned, we are discussing the movie Freaky, which was co-written and directed by Christopher Landon, who I think some of our listeners were known from the Happy Death Day movies. Karen, what did you think of it? I really liked it. As I was just discussing with one of our colleagues right before recording, |
| 1:20.9 | like it's not going to win an Oscar, but it's tremendously fun. And at this point in the quarantine, I feel like that is kind of a high bar to clear where it's like I had a good |
| 1:24.3 | time watching it the whole time and I didn't really have anything big to complain about. And also, I will say I like horror movies, but I'm also a huge wuss. And this |
| 1:34.1 | came in at a good level for me in terms of not being too scary, but having enough to kind of set |
| 1:39.7 | me on edge a few times. Yeah, like the Happy Death Day movies before this. This is a little bit of a sort |
| 1:45.2 | of meta-slasher movie. It's a little bit more towards sort of straightforward is a tough word |
| 1:53.3 | to say, but it's a little more in a kind of classic stalker vein, apart from the body swapping |
| 1:58.9 | part, which we'll get to seriously, and a little bit less of a kind of |
| 2:01.2 | Looney Tunes comedy than the Happy Death Day movies. And I missed some of that comedy in this. Yeah, the |
| 2:07.9 | Happy Death Day movies had Jessica Roth as the main character who basically gets killed over and over again |
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