Film distributor A24, perhaps best known for releasing jaw-dropping original films like “Moonlight” and “Midsommar,” is also in the business of glorifying youthful nihilism. In his HBO series “Euphoria,” co-produced by the company, the teenage sex bomb dresses up thousands of yards of gaze with shimmery eyeshadow. Halina Raine’s horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies is similar, bloated with irony. It’s a movie perfectly tailored to her 25-year-old, one of A24’s primary tiers, a boogie who cares more about branding than substance.
“Bodies Bodies Bodies” badIt’s visually appealing and well-acted. But the film is nothing special, and like its superficial characters, it is persistently oblivious to its own stupidity. A stellar cast of fresh talent, including Maria Bacalova (“Borat Subsequent Movie Film”), Rachel Sennot (“Shiva Baby”) and Chase Sui Wonders (“Generation”) doing. Instead, “Bodies Bodies Bodies” is so intent on exuding cool child indifference that it doesn’t help at all.
If you’re a fan of Thrasher, you’ll notice the plot: young hot people are trapped in a remote area and picked off one by one. The gal in question is a group of twenty-somethings plagued by lifelong friendships (save a Tinder date played by the tragically underused Lee Pace). The location is a remote mansion. Fresh out of her rehab, wayward Sophie (Amand Rastenberg) wants to show off her new love Bea (Bakalova) to her estranged best friends.
Unfortunately for Bea, Sophie’s friends, and possibly Sophie herself, are also vicious. Sophie’s sober gets a lukewarm “yay!” Before her bud swallows champagne and snorts her cola. Petty arguments and egoism underline all interactions. David (Pete Davidson), whose parents own the estate, is particularly haunted by Pace’s character, Greg. (Spoiler alert: he is.) The film’s name and premise derives from a game played by gangsters. It’s a sort of manhunt-meets-mafia encounter where everyone takes shots and bangs their faces on the person next to them. If you don’t get it, these aren’t good people.
The only thing that sets ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ apart is its location on A24’s Hype Machine, which doubles as a 95-minute ad for cleavage and Charli XCX’s latest single. The overused Twitter speaks like the words “toxic,” “narcissist,” and “gaslighting” have been satirized by many other projects, and so is the vulnerability of wealthy youth.there is certainly other Slasher in this vein. The genre lives on because viewers love to watch fat cats splatter.
These privileged dwarfs certainly make their comeback, but the moral land whines rather than bangs.This is how other rich people laugh and say, “Thank you, God. I not bad. ” Everyone else has to cover the cost of the movie ticket.
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Rated R for body, body, body. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. at the theater.