'Bodies Bodies Bodies,' A24's deliciously dark slasher comedy, is a Gen Z-centric take on a familiar formula: It’s socially relevant without exactly being social commentary. Film critic Caroline Siede reviews this SXSW fave.
star Rachel Sennott round out the friend group, which looks chummy from the outside but has its own complicated hierarchies and jealousies embedded within.
Those simmering tensions reach a full-on boiling point when a round of the titular murder mystery party game turns unexpectedly deadly. Now that there’s a real body, who could the killer be?The fun of this gnarly whodunit comes from how the Gen Z characters bounce off one another over petty squabbles and self-absorbed concerns, both before and after the bodies start piling up.
Indeed, the fiendishly clever script by Sarah DeLappe manages to touch on themes of gender, class, age, addiction, sexuality and trauma without ever feeling performative or even overt about its themes. And the talented young cast add just enough dimension to humanize the various archetypes they’re playing. — lighting the film with glow sticks and phone flashlights once the power goes out, and juxtaposing the elegant mansion setting with the grungy aesthetic of entitled, inebriated 20-somethings.
While "Bodies Bodies Bodies" has some things to say about modern culture, it’s mostly just here to have a good time. And its plentiful surprises are particularly fun to experience alongside an engaged audience ready to laugh and scream at each twist and turn. If "Bodies Bodies Bodies" doesn’t reinvent the slasher genre, it gives it a refreshingly contemporary sense of bite — one that will appeal to horror and dark comedy fans alike.
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