Freaky (2020) | Episode #45

In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2020 horror-comedy film Freaky. 

Episode Highlights: We argue that while the film offers a clever and fun premise, Freaky is unfortunately--at best--a paint-by-numbers horror comedy that fails to maintain the self-awareness of Christopher Landon's other films. Looking at the ways that the film attempts to be transgressive but ultimately gets stuck in presenting rather familiar (and problematic) depictions of the monstrous Other, we talk about why perhaps the worst fate a horror film can face is to be just "ok."  

A Dose of Scholarship: For a deeper look into how the horror genre links issues of monstrous Otherness with gender and sexual identities, we suggest turning to Jack Halberstam's Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. 

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