Penny Dreadful SFX’S high priestess of horror
BODY DOUBLE
wo movies due to land in cinemas in November have ended up with a different fate thanks to Lockdown II. Brandon Cronenberg’s weird and wonderful Possessor has gone straight to VOD, while Freaky, a Blumhouse take on the body-swap genre, has been bumped back to Christmas. Featuring a serial killer (Vince Vaughn) who does the old switcheroo is massive fun, but begs to be seen in a group. Strange coincidence that is also a body-swap horror, albeit of a different flavour. In this Andrea Riseborough’s covert agent infiltrates the bodies of her marks and controls them to carry out assassinations. It’s sophisticated sci-fi with a lot to say about gender, selfidentity and responsibility.
