Bodies Bodies Bodies

Viewer advice: the short film prior to the feature contains images of animal butchery.

Rachel Sennott, Amandla Stenberg and Pete Davidson star in a bloody, wildly funny Gen-Z horror-comedy that remixes Clue, Scream and Mean Girls for the age of TikTok.

Sophie (Stenberg, The Hunger Games, The Hate U Give) and new girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova, breakout star of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) arrive at the suburban mansion owned by the out-of-town parents of David (Davidson, Saturday Night Live). They join their drug-taking, rich-kid friends – including toxic truth-teller Jordan and neurotic, self-deprecating Sarah (Sennott, Shiva Baby, MIFF 2020) – who decide to play a game of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’, a murder-in-the-dark-style lark to pass the time while they’re stuck without wi-fi. But when someone actually dies, the party spirals into a savage, hilarious web of paranoia and blame.

A smash hit out of SXSW, this whip-smart horror-comedy from Dutch director Halina Reijn, working from a story conceived by ‘Cat Person’ author Kristen Roupenian, has the entitlement of Gen-Z brats locked squarely in its sights. Mixing the classic whodunnit with reality-show sass, Hollywood teen-flick wit and ‘For You’ Page mania, Reijn’s English-language debut is deliriously funny, anxiety-inducing and instantly quotable.

“A terrific horror-comedy evisceration of TikTok-era entitlement and rich, Gen-Z privilege.” – The Playlist