The nudity in Freelance (2025), including full-frontal from Nicole Pastor

This is not the recent Alison Brie film, but an Aussie flick with the same name.

Johnny Moronic’s overview:

Freelance is a thriller about a freelance film editor who’s struggling to get by and just burnt a bridge editing adult movies. She can barely afford a coffee, is three months behind in the rent, and about to get kicked out. She gets in touch with a couple of fellow editors whom she sleeps with and they promise to get her freelance gigs. Then she receives an anonymous message about a job, and she reluctantly takes it because she needs the $1,000.

The videos look like a cheap horror movie, but are relatively easy edits. Katie gets more editing work. The videos become increasingly more violent and more realistic looking, like snuff movies, but she struggles her way through editing them. Then strange things begin to happen, particularly to her cat Pavarotti, who is poisoned then runs away. She starts asking questions about the videos but finishes the jobs she’s given and is given more money. Then her cat turns up dead in a box on her doorstep like the packages she receives for her job.

She pulls back but her employers are very insistent and even threaten her with questionable videos of her family. She finally refuses but her employer tells her that the only out is to ‘self-produce’ a video for them. Katie is desperate, but is she willing to murder someone to save herself?

Interesting twist on the snuff movie genre, although one wonders what these videos are actually being edited for. The editor’s desperation works early on, and the use of limited space helps Nicole Pastor to embody that desperation quite well. It becomes a bit strained when she starts to get money and all of a sudden signs up to do porn, but despite some occasional missteps, there are enough good ideas to sustain its two-hour length.

Johnny Moronic’s film clips are here