Bodies Bodies Bodies Review: Fresh, Comical and Fast Paced!

Bodies Bodies Bodies first premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival this year, and since then I have been so excited to check it out. The film follows a group of kids in their 20s who throw a small party at one of the guests’ mansions during a hurricane. As they begin to play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, one of their friends is killed leaving them to wonder who among them is the killer and if anybody is safe.

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Bodies Bodies Bodies young cast of up and coming actors, like Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, and Amandla Stenberg to name a few, made me believe it would be a wildly fun ride of whodunit. It definitely was! Although the film is both a comedy and a horror/thriller, the writers who worked on the film did a good job of maintaining the dark atmosphere while slipping in comedic lines that felt authentic to the characters delivering them during dramatic sequences.

Sometimes films make you suspend your belief when it comes to horror-comedies regarding the lines delivered in terrible situations. However, the lines delivered, specifically by Rachel Sennott, feel just funny enough to match the characters saying them while still displaying their intense fear of the situations. Pete Davidson as usual is hilarious but also amps up his acting skills in some of the drama.

 

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As mentioned before, Bodies Bodies Bodies is an enjoyable ride of Clue featuring elements of Gen Z flair that was a pleasure to be sucked into. Aside from a couple of lines of dialogue featuring Gen Z slangs that felt a little out of place outside of Twitter, it wasn’t enough to affect the film or its writing as a whole. Although the film follows a group, the film is primarily in the point of view of Bee (Maria Bakalova) who is as much of a mystery to the audience as she is to everyone else in the mansion.

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a film that I will be watching next time it is moody and rainy outside. The film is shot in a very dark setting with lights from the character’s neon glow sticks being one of the only forms of light (which I loved). It is in theaters now!

‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Rating – 4/5

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Stephanie Young

Senior Associate Writer at Just for Movie Freaks

Stephanie is a huge film fanatic, a librarian, and a baker! And when she isn't busy doing these activities, she is running around with her Australian Cattle Dog!

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