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Nightmare Fuel / Freaky

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Freaky being a "Slasher Comedy" still means it's a Slasher Movie and thanks to its "R" rating, it goes farther than Happy Death Day ever did.


  • The Blissfield Butcher is a rather creative and disturbingly efficient killer who can take almost anything in the vicinity and turn it into a Cruel and Unusual Death for his prey.
    • The fact that he's been at large on-and-off since at least the early 1990's. By the time of the film's setting, he's reached Urban Legend status among the local teens who only think he's a myth unaware that he's very much real.
    • There's also the deaths he causes throughout the movie, even to those who had it coming.
      • Ryler is lured into the school's cryotherapy unit, locked inside, and ultimately freezes to death. When Millie in the Butcher's body encounters her frozen body, it falls forwards and smashes to pieces.
      • Mr. Bernardi is stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver and then pushed through the table saw in the wood shop, slicing him in half and spewing blood everywhere.
      • The three jocks who attempt to rape the Butcher in Millie's body get brutally slaughtered in short order. The Butcher breaks a bottle of alcohol over one of their heads, and slits another one of their throats with a shard. After a scuffle with the third, the Butcher grabs a nearby chainsaw and tears into him through his crotch. One of their corpses is also seen later with his head completely torn off.
  • Millie's whole situation. On top of the challenges of being the school outcast and trying to cope with the death of her father just a year ago, she's only just saved from certain death at the hands of a legendary Serial Killer, and is then stuck in a decades-older body of the wrong gender. She may be shown having a few moments of "fun" with it, such as enjoying her new strength, but it's not hard to imagine just how terrified she must have been as she learns more about the limits of the current switch and has to work with her friends to get her body back.
    • And that's before factoring in how close she could have come to being accused of the Butcher's crimes for "real" (in the sense of people witnessing Butcher-in-Millie killing people); she's just lucky that the Butcher's only crimes always occurred when a witness could confirm that Millie-in-Butcher was also in the area...

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