Bodies Bodies Bodies Review

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It looks like 2022 is shaping up to be the year of the deconstructed slasher movie, with Scream having hit theaters in January, and now A24's Bodies Bodies Bodies arriving for late summer. Horror fans should count themselves lucky to have the opportunity to experience this smart, satirical, and tense horror-comedy.

Directed by Halina Reijn from a screenplay by Sarah DeLappe based on a story by Kristen Roupenian (of «Cat Person» fame), Bodies Bodies Bodies never holds back from what it wants to say, but unlike other satirical movies, it never lets its commentary overtake the story, instead deftly weaving it into a narrative that builds its mystery over the course of the film.

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Bodies Bodies Bodies finds Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) heading out to a get-together with some old friends. Coming with her is her new girlfriend, Bee (Maria Bakalova ofBorat: Subsequent Moviefilm and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3). Bee is the odd one out in the group of Sophie's young, accomplished, upper-class pals. These include the put-upon David (Pete Davidson), enthusiastic podcaster Alice (Shiva Baby's Rachel Sennott) and her tag-along Tinder date Greg (Lee Pace), emotional actress Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), and skeptical and hard-edged Jordan (Myha'la Herrold).

The friends plan to ride out a hurricane in David's parents' mansion with plenty of loud music, dancing, glowsticks, and a healthy (or unhealthy) amount of alcohol and drugs. Sophie suggests the gang play the titular game, a sort of whodunnit party game in which one person is the «murderer» and once someone is «killed» the rest must determine who the killer is. Of course, things become far too real too fast, and the friends are stuck in a giant