Body-swapping movies typically aren’t very scary. On the surface, that seems weird. After all, having your consciousness ripped out of your body and dropped into someone else’s sounds like a downright terrifying experience. But the most popular body-swapping movies like Freaky Friday or The Hot Chick tend to treat this traumatic event as little more than a minor inconvenience.
In 2020, Freaky offered a delicious brew of horror and comedy that riffed on other body-swapping classics. But for the most part, standard horror is typically more interested in having something alien take over your body (see Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Faculty, et cetera) rather than human-on-human swapping. However, one new thriller, currently streaming on Netflix, finds a way to take the classic body-swapping premise and make it downright terrifying.
