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Bodies Bodies Bodies
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHalina Reijn
Screenplay bySarah DeLappe
Story byKristen Roupenian
Produced by
  • David Hinojosa
  • Ali Herting
Starring
CinematographyJasper Wolf
Edited by
  • Taylor Levy
  • Julia Bloch
Music byDisasterpeace
Production
company
2AM
Distributed by
Release dates
  • March 14, 2022 (2022-03-14) (SXSW)
  • August 5, 2022 (2022-08-05) (United States)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.8 million[1][2]

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a 2022 American black comedy horror film directed by Halina Reijn in her English-language debut. The film stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson.

Bodies Bodies Bodies premiered at South by Southwest on March 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on August 5, 2022, by A24. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the humor, satire, and cast performances.

Plot

Bee, a working-class young woman from Eastern Europe, travels with her wealthy girlfriend Sophie to a "hurricane party" at a mansion owned by the family of Sophie's childhood friend David. Upon arrival, Bee is introduced to the other guests, including David, his girlfriend Emma, vacuous podcaster Alice, her much-older vet boyfriend Greg, and the enigmatic Jordan. Prior to Bee and Sophie's arrival, Max had already left after a fight with David. Greg impresses the group when he opens a champagne bottle with a kukri, and the party begins in earnest as the storm descends upon the house. After drinking, drugs, and dancing, the group begins to play "Bodies Bodies Bodies," a murder in the dark-style game. The game goes poorly and after an argument, David storms off. After the power goes out, Bee finds David outside with his throat slashed, and the blood-stained kukri nearby. Bee, Sophie, Emma, Jordan, and Alice try to drive away in Sophie's car to get help, only to find the car battery dead.

The group immediately begins to squabble over who might have killed David. Greg becomes a prime suspect after the group discovers a knife in his suitcase, as well as a map with the mansion circled. The group confronts Greg, who was asleep in the mansion's gym, oblivious to the chaos. Initially disbelieving, Greg becomes hostile during the confrontation, and after a struggle Bee kills him using a kettle bell weight. Tensions continue to rise as the group argues over the identity of the killer. While patrolling the mansion, Sophie runs into Emma, who kisses her, much to Sophie's confusion and displeasure. Alice later finds Emma dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Jordan and Alice cast suspicion on Bee, revealing that no person with her name is on record as graduating from her college; the two of them cast Bee out of the mansion into the hurricane while Sophie watches ineffectually.

Returning to Sophie's car, Bee finds a pair of underwear she recognizes as matching a bra of Jordan's in the backseat. She spies Jordan holding a gun through a window, and crawls back into the mansion through a pet door. Bee confronts the group, revealing that she dropped out of college her freshman year to take care of her mother, who suffers from borderline personality disorder. Jordan expresses disbelief, and a vicious fight ensues between Sophie, Jordan, and Alice: among other things, Jordan expresses her resentment and contempt for Sophie due to her drug addiction and reveals to Bee that they recently had sex; Sophie attacks Jordan for her cold, controlling nature, and reveals that Jordan only "hate-listens" to Alice's podcast. After Alice insults Jordan's parents, Jordan reveals the gun and shoots Alice in the leg. A four-way struggle for the weapon ensues and results in Alice being fatally shot in the throat. Sophie follows the gun-toting Jordan up the stairs; after another fight, Bee attacks Jordan, pushing her over the bannister and causing her to fall to her death on a pile of glass liquor bottles. With her dying breath, she tells Bee to check Sophie's texts.

The next day, after the storm has blown over, Sophie tearfully confesses to Bee that she relapsed and witnessed Emma falling down the stairs to her death. However, a traumatized and mistrusting Bee holds her girlfriend at gunpoint, demanding to see her texts. Sophie tosses the phone away and the two struggle, inadvertently picking up David's phone in the process. David's phone shows that he accidentally slashed his own throat while trying to imitate Greg's champagne bottle trick for a TikTok—revealing there was no real murderer after all. As Bee and Sophie process that the night's bloodshed was all for nothing, a confused Max returns to the mansion, and the power comes back on.

Cast

Production

In March 2018, A24 acquired Bodies Bodies Bodies, a spec script written by Kristen Roupenian.[3] In September 2019, it was announced Chloe Okuno would direct and re-write the film.[4] In April 2021, it was announced that Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova had joined the cast of the film, Pete Davidson and Myha'la Herrold were in talks to join the cast, and that Halina Reijn was now set to direct the film.[5] Bakalova said she was scared to be in a horror movie, being scared watching them, but knew A24 films went deeper; she said that the film was "more like an R-rated comedy".[6] In May 2021, Lee Pace, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders and Conner O'Malley joined the cast of the film, with Davidson and Herrold confirmed to star.[7]

Principal photography began in May 2021.[7]

Ultimately, Roupenian was awarded a 'story by' credit for her work on the film's screenplay, while The Wolves playwright Sarah DeLappe received sole, final 'screenplay by' credit.[8]

Music

The film's music score was composed by Disasterpeace in March 2022.[9] Charli XCX performed the song called Hot Girl, which was released as a single music in July 26, 2022.[10] The 9-music scores album was released in August 10, 2022 by A24 Music.[11]

Release

The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2022.[12] It was released on August 5, 2022 in select cities, before the nationwide expansion was release on August 12.[13] Stage 6 Films will distribute the film internationally.[14]

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, Bodies Bodies Bodies made $226,653 from six theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. The $37,775 per-venue average was the second best of 2022 for a limited release, behind Everything Everywhere All at Once ($50,130 in March).[15] The film will expand to 1,283 theaters in its second weekend, and is projected to gross $2–3 million.[16] It ended up making $3.2 million, finishing eighth at the box office.[17]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 146 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Impeccably cast and smartly written, Bodies Bodies Bodies is an uncommonly well-done whodunnit."[18] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 68 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19] Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film an average 3 out of 5 stars, with 63% saying they would definitely recommend it.[17]

Abby Olcese for RogerEbert.com praised the use of music and cinematography to enhance the single-location setting.[20] Bloody Disgusting found the social satire of the movie, and its use of setting to highlight this, to be strong.[21] Lovia Gyarkye for The Hollywood Reporter found the film to be a psychological study of the friendship archetypes and the digital age, while also showing an understanding of the anxieties of twenty-somethings, praising the story.[22] IndieWire's Robert Daniels wrote that Reijn's direction was the strongest part of the film, while also praising the script for its social interrogation.[23] Erin Brady of Little White Lies instead thought that the film fell apart towards the end because it is "a movie that claims to understand how Gen-Z treats societal topics ... portraying some of those topics so stereotypically."[24] However, she said that the film was well-paced and it was hard to resist the fun of it.[24] IGN's Rafael Motamayor wrote that "it does falter somewhat when it comes to Gen Z talk ... like someone had a bunch of placeholders they swapped in with whatever term a teenager told them kids use these days", though also felt it was good overall.[25]

Valerie Complex at Deadline Hollywood praised the cast, saying "each actor [has] their own style that brings a varied flavor to the film, which makes the cast ... a joy to watch, even if their characters are insufferable",[26] Owen Glieberman for Variety praised the directing for giving the characters and actors room to explore.[27] Complex and Daniels said that the characters as written are weak, but the performances all elevate them.[26][23] Sennott was consistently named the standout performance of the film,[28][26][20][29][22][23][25] while Brady said this was Herrold.[24] Gyarkye wrote that nobody could deny the acting talent, noting Herrold as well as Stenberg.[22] Daniels highlighted Sennott and Davidson,[23] and Marya E. Gates of The Playlist commended the ensemble while noting Davidson and Bakalova.[29] Paste's Aurora Amidon felt that the cast were all successful, but that Bakalova's comedic talents were wasted by playing a serious character.[30]

Glieberman described the film as "And Then There Were None staged by John Cassavetes for the age of Instagram."[27] Gates felt that there were some scenes that ran too long, but said that it is "destined to [take] its place on the mantle with seminal horror-comedy faves like Jennifer's Body and Scream";[29] Gyarkye instead said that the film may not appeal to slasher genre fans.[22]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)". The Numbers. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
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  4. ^ McNary, Dave (September 24, 2019). "Chloe Okuno to Direct, Write A24 Horror Movie 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'". Variety. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
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  10. ^ "Charli XCX's Original Song 'Hot Girl' from 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Released". FilmMusicReporter. July 26, 2022. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
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