Bodies Bodies Bodies reviews are calling the new A24 horror movie "bizarre and engaging"
The first reviews for new horror movie Bodies Bodies Bodies are in – but what do the critics think? Directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn in her debut English-language feature premiered at this year's SXSW Film Festival and stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson.
The movie, which has been praised for its comedic satire, follows a group of wealthy 20-somethings throwing a party in a remote mansion belonging to one of their families as they shelter from a hurricane. However, the festivities quickly take an ugly turn and things start to go very, very wrong.
We've rounded up what the critics are saying about Bodies Bodies Bodies to give you an idea of what to expect diving into the movie.
"Imagine if the seven deadly sins were wealthy Gen-Z’rs and threw a house party. Now at said party, imagine each of them was high, drunk, and in such a deranged and disconnected state they wouldn’t even know what planet they were operating on. This is what viewers can expect from Halina Reijn’s first English feature film, Bodies Bodies Bodies, which had its world premiere at SXSW 2022. Based on a short story by Kristen Roupenian and written by Sarah DeLappe, this movie is about when seven people party in a mansion and find out what happens when their game gets out of control: they stop being polite and start dying."
"Bodies Bodies Bodies is Halina Reijn’s second feature, but she’s a veteran actor who stages the movie as a freewheeling actors’ banquet. She’s working from a script, by Sarah Delappe, that lays out the relationships like something in a diagram, but the dialogue is blade-sharp. There’s a message buried somewhere in all this – about how today’s twentysomethings are too obsessed
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