Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

"Witty Body Count Movie Hit From A24"

After its successful theatrical run earlier this year director Halina Reijn's BODIES BODIES BODIES is getting a Blu-ray and Digital release from Sony.

A bunch of Obnoxious Young Things meet up at the remote country mansion of the father of one of them for a weekend of drinking, drug-taking and everything else that in the Reagan era would have had movie slashers salivating at the thought of all that errant behaviour requiring gory punishment.

And guess what happens? Halfway through the evening, and after a game of Bodies Bodies Bodies has been proposed (don't worry if you don't know it - the rules are explained & I'd certainly never heard of it before) one of the kids turns up with their throat slashed. After that the film abruptly changes gear to become a tense and frequently witty body count picture with everyone suspicious of everyone else and a resolution that is as smart as it is satisfying.

A wicked satire on aspects of modern youth culture (and social media in general), BODIES BODIES BODIES' clever script means that all the deaths that pile up are still almost incidental to the cutting dialogue and sharp observations. The film's playful sense of morbid mischievousness despite the increasing volume of blood drenching everything is reminiscent of at least a couple of Italian director Mario Bava's movies from the early 1970s, not so much in the visual style but once again in the writing (so perhaps I should namecheck Ernesto Gastaldi here as well). Suffice to say the film always has a smile on its face while it's dealing out horrible fates to some quite horrible self-obsessed people.

Sony's Blu-ray comes with a couple of brief deleted scenes, but the real bonus is the commentary track from director Reijn who makes it worth sitting through the film again. Yet another excellent production from A24 who are fast exceeding Blumhouse as the low-budget movie house to watch. 

Halina Reijn's BODIES BODIES BODIES is out to download and keep on Monday 7th November 2022 and Digital Rental 

and Blu-ray on Monday 28th November 2022