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Christopher LandonPhotographie:
Laurie RoseMusique:
Bear McCrearyActeurs·trices:
Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Alan Ruck, Uriah Shelton, Katie Finneran, Misha Osherovich, Melissa Collazo, Celeste O'Connor, Mitchell Hoog (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton), dix-sept ans, essaie simplement de survivre dans les couloirs sanguinaires de Blissfield High, face à la cruauté des adolescents populaires. Mais quand elle devient la nouvelle cible du Boucher (Vince Vaughn), l’infâme tueur en série de sa ville, sa dernière année d’école devient le dernier de ses soucis. Lorsque la vieille dague mystique du Boucher les fait se réveiller dans le corps l’un de l’autre, Millie apprend qu'elle n'a que 24 heures pour récupérer son corps avant que l’échange ne devienne permanent et qu'elle soit piégée à jamais sous la forme d'un maniaque quinquagénaire. Le seul problème est qu'elle ressemble maintenant à un psychopathe imposant qui est la cible d'une chasse à l'homme dans toute la ville, alors que le Boucher lui ressemble, et a apporté son appétit pour le carnage à la fête de l’école. Avec l'aide de ses amis : Nyla, l’ultra-consciente (Celeste O'Connor), Joshua, l’ultra-fabuleux (Misha Osherovich) et Booker, qu’elle aime secrètement (Uriah Shelton), Millie se lance dans une course contre la montre pour inverser la malédiction tandis que le Boucher découvre qu'avoir un corps d'adolescente est la couverture parfaite pour une petite tuerie pendant une fête d’école. (Universal Pictures CA)
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Critiques (7)
A great idea and fun from beginning to end. That is, until the first ending, because the second, unnecessarily drawn out, was really redundant. Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton are perfect in both roles, and I really liked the script, which simultaneously crashed and exploited all sorts of horror clichés. It's likeable, bloody, colourful, sexy and funny. Sometimes, that’s all I need.
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Christopher Landon is clearly profiling himself as an expert on this kind of light-hearted teenage comedies with a horror premise, and I quite like it. There’s always a couple of things to complain about (here, for instance, the conversation in the fitting room of a shopping mall, it’s awful), but in the field of mainstream consumer products, I like this a lot more than McG’s The Babysitter, mainly because of the likeable characters (not only the heroine in both her bodies, but also her sidekicks are quite cool for the standards of teenage slashers) and the humour, which is very simple but not cheap or pandering. The opening scene is downright brilliant. 7/10
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An entertaining slasher with an interesting premise. Putting a six-foot serial killer inside a short, shy and retiring blond works mainly thanks to Vaughn’s talent at acting anything from a taciturn psychopath to a babbling high school girl. But Newton swaps her zombie-like step for confident strides... Luckily, Christopher Landon doesn’t wait a minute to make fun of genre clichés, even ridiculing himself. The juicy gore and great horror atmosphere (a great opening) does much to counterbalance the shoddy screenplay. This had many more possibilities to be explored, but they were ignored. But still, a solid above-average movie.
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Christopher Landon proves for the third time that he has great ideas, but as an executor he can't squeeze great films out of them. In doing so, he manages, perhaps for the first time, a workable horror atmosphere and solid gore, plus he has two very decent actors at his disposal. Unfortunately, however, as always, it falls horribly short. It's a shame, his ideas deserve a more imaginative execution. But I've been thinking that since the first Happy Death Day.
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After the time loop of Happy Death Day Christopher Landon tries something different, and once again it is very playful, entertaining, reasonably original, and this time it also has guts when it came to gore, for which I praise it. The idea of a serial killer unknowingly switching bodies with a high school girl is really cool, and Vince Vaughn is probably the biggest attraction of the whole film. He is funny and acts really well (this body sucks!). I liked the opening ten minutes, which reminded me of classics like Friday the 13th and Scream, and then of course the circular saw, which is the boldest gore scene in the whole film. Those who enjoy comedic slashers that are playful and entertaining will be satisfied, and even though I expected more gags and gore (in this area, The Babysitter has the upper hand), overall, no better slasher has been released this year. Story ****, Action ***, Humor ***, Violence ***, Enjoyment ****, Music ***, Visuals ****, Atmosphere ****, Tension ****. 7.5/10.
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