10 Incredible Performances In Recent Horror Movies

10. Vince Vaughn - Freaky

Though most of the performances on this list are in Serious horror movies, Vince Vaughn proved in Freaky that comedy-horror can also provide ideal conditions for a veritable acting clinic.

The recent body-swap slasher flick casts Vaughn as a brutal serial killer known as the Blissfield Butcher, who uses a mystical dagger in order to switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl (Kathryn Newton).

The remainder of the film is basically The Vince Vaughn Show, carrying it through even its more formulaic moments with his go-for-broke performance as a teenage girl inside a middle-aged man's body - ala Jack Black in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

As much as Freaky might be a silly, frothy horror-comedy, Vaughn gives a genuinely fully committed performance that needs to operate on two levels simultaneously in order to convince the audience.

Given that Vaughn's comedic cred has been rather eroded in recent years due to the glut of stale studio comedies he's appeared in, this was a major breath of fresh air. You can tell he's having an absolute blast, and that feeling transpires through to the audience.