‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Review: A House Party Turns Deadly in an Agreeably Overwrought Slasher Soap Opera Starring Amandla Stenberg and Pete Davidson
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a group of rich kids — five old friends, along with a couple of not-so-significant others — gather for a hurricane party at the pastoral suburban mansion of one of their parents.
What’s a hurricane party? A storm has been predicted, and they’re using that as an excuse to barricade themselves inside, so that they can dance to TikTok videos and toot cocaine and play games, including one that describes their more-or-less constant state of being: reading each other, one-upping each other, challenging each other like claw-baring rivals on a reality show.
This, according to the film’s satirical vision, is what friendship has come to in the age of social-media backbiting. The director, Halina Reijn, works in what you might call the in-your-face school of twentysomething head-game melodrama.
As soon as Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and her new squeeze (Maria Bakalova, from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) show up to find the others lounging in the pool, the perky hostility commences.
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