The Most Purely Enjoyable Horror Movie Made in Years

Millie (played by Kathryn Newton) is a petite, blond high schooler with an awkward streak—the kind of character who’d traditionally be the victim in a horror movie. Since the slasher genre began in earnest in the late 1970s, Hollywood has made countless films about hulking male serial killers preying on teenagers, but it’s still rare to see the reverse. Christopher Landon’s new film, , achieves that turnaround through an old narrative trick, magically placing the mind of a murderer in the