After watchingIt’s What’s Insideon Netflix, there’s another great atmospheric horror comedy to check out:Bodies Bodies Bodies. Written and directed by Greg Jardin,the body-swapping caperIt’s What’s Insidetakes place at a pre-wedding party where a friendship group’s good time is cut short by a surprise guest with a mysterious suitcase and a mind-bending game that threatens to tear them apart. After its premiere in the Midnight section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January,It’s What’s Insidewas quickly snapped up by Netflix for worldwide distribution.
With a “fresh” Rotten Tomatoes score of 81%,It’s What’s Insidehas been praisedfor its stylish direction, its smart narrative structure, and the cast’s performances. It’s one of the best original movies to arrive on Netflix’s streaming library this year, and it’s a terrific new addition to the horror comedy canon. Although it’s a wonderfully idiosyncratic movie with a unique premise, there’s a perfect follow-up movie to watch that has a lot in common with it.
Bodies Bodies Bodies Has A Lot Of Similarities With It’s What’s Inside
They’re Both Horror Comedies About Young People Playing A Party Game Gone Wrong
Although it’s one of the most original films of the year,It’s What’s Insidehas surprisingly got a lot in common with a different movie that came out in 2022: Halina Reijn’s darkly comic murder mysteryBodies Bodies Bodies.BothIt’s What’s InsideandBodies Bodies Bodiesarescary horror comediesthat focus on a cast of young characters playing a party game that goes terribly wrongand has disastrous consequences. They have plenty of differences, too, but at their core, they’re similar movies.
Why Bodies Bodies Bodies' Reviews Are So Good
It’s A Chilling Whodunit Crossed With A Spot-On Satire Of Gen Z
Bodies Bodies Bodiesrevolves around a group of twentysomething friends (and a couple of new romantic partners the others have never met before) riding out a hurricane at a lavish mansion. After playing a murder mystery game, one of the friends actually turns up dead with his throat slit. The group initially turns on the outsiders, but when they’re cleared of suspicion, these lifelong friends start to turn on each other and the betrayals and home truths all start spilling out.
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The movie was very well-received upon its release in 2022. It has an 86% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a slightly lower audience score of 69%.Bodies Bodies Bodiesis both a hauntingly atmospheric whodunit — with a power outage making all the difference to create an unsettling mood — and a hilarious satire of the social media generation’s use of trauma and mental illness as a personality trait.Critics lauded Reijn’s direction, the cast’s performances (particularly Rachel Sennott’s), and the brilliantly subversive final twist, which totally upends the genre norms.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies is a comedy/horror/thriller from 2 AM. When Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a hurricane party with her girlfriend Sophie (Amanda Stenberg), they find themselves surrounded by affluent 20-somethings with very different world views. When the party finally kicks off amidst the coming storm, the debauchery leads to a game of “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” However, when a power outage occurs during the game, and a murder occurs in its stead, the party takes a turn for the deadly.
