#41: BODIES BODIES BODIES

 

Starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace and Pete Davidson. Weirrten by Sarah DeLappe from a story by Kristen Roupenian. Directed by Halina Reijn. Running time 94 minutes.

A great trailer hooked me and reeled me in for this black, social-satire, comedy horror film featuring a group of over-privileged millennials gathering at a parent's deserted country mansion to ride out a hurricane. 

Things take a seriously bad turn for the worse when, after a game of 'bodies, bodies, bodies', played in the dark, the group start dying one-by-one and as tensions rise the 20 somethings, and Lee Pace fall out quicker than a nang hit. This group of stoned, pissed, toxic-frenemies, all with back stories, too much money, and way too many issues bicker, and fall-out all the while triggering each other as the tension and the body count rises. The cast of mostly strong females offers another satisfying variation on this type of horror film, and while the gore is gruesome, the violence isn't.  

This was a surprising and entertainingly horror film that built to a satisfying and funny ending. Filled with topical buzz words, it played with current social norms and the social and emotional banter between the group of fracturing 20-somethings fills the comedic core of the film.

8/10