Penny Dreadful
SFX's high priestess of horror
BODY DOUBLE
Two 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 Freaky, has gone straight to VOD, while 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 with a teenage girl (Kathryn Newton) to gory, guffaw-y effect, Freaky is massive fun, but begs to be seen in a group. Strange coincidence that Possessor 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.