10 Upcoming Movies With GENIUS Concepts

It doesn't get much more creative than this.

Ryan Reynolds Free Guy
20th Century Studios

As much as many might claim that originality is dead in Hollywood, these 10 movies absolutely make an argument to the contrary.

Though it's fair to say that the majority of films are indeed cut from a familiar genre cloth, every so often a filmmaker emerges with an inspired premise that immediately gets everyone excited and talking.

But execution is key, of course, as a neat idea or even a great script is no guarantee of an entertaining movie.

Even so, with their delightfully ridiculous, insanely clever, and downright WTF concepts, these films all have the potential to be some of the most divertingly, dementedly enjoyable movies of the next year.

From inventive remixes of well-worn premises to those rarest of film plots actually like nothing we've ever heard before, to one that literally sees a certain A-list movie star propelling himself into space for our entertainment, these 10 movies all boast concepts that are sheer, unmitigated genius.

Now, cross your fingers that the end result lives up to all that promise...

10. Freaky

Ryan Reynolds Free Guy
Universal

The body-swap movie is such a delightful, easily marketable concept that it's genuinely surprising nobody's ever tested it out on the horror genre before.

Freaky, the new film from Happy Death Day filmmaker Christopher Landon, sees high schooler Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) accidentally swapping bodies with a serial killer known as The Butcher (Vince Vaughn).

In addition to having to worry about The Butcher murdering her classmates while residing within her body, Millie has just 24 hours to get her body back or she'll end up trapped as the serial killer forever more.

A delicious mash-up of Freaky Friday and Friday the 13th - enough that the film's original title was even Freaky Friday the 13th - Freaky looks like it's going to back up its inspired logline with a go-for-broke performance from Vince Vaughn as a teenage girl inside the body of a middle-aged serial killer.

Better yet, for those who complained that the Happy Death Day movies were hamstrung by their tame PG-13 rating, Freaky is R-rated all the way, baby.

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