I assure you’ll NOT see the ending coming.
In case you have not heard of it (but), Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies is a brand new horror movie from the wild of us at A24, and it is mainly a whodunnit tailored for Gen Z…that additionally kinda makes enjoyable of Gen Z.
Directed by Halina Reijn, Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies stars Amandla Stenberg (The Starvation Video games), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), and an awesome supporting forged together with stars like Lee Tempo (The Hobbit trilogy), Pete Davidson (SNL), and up-and-comers Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, and Rachel Sennott.
However earlier than we get going right here, be warned that there are some (gentle) spoilers forward!
So, the movie opens with Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and her new girlfriend, Bee (Maria Bakalova). They’re younger, cute, in love, and on their option to a celebration at Sophie’s childhood good friend’s home.
The factor is, this is not your typical “enjoyable weekend simply chilling with associates” type of get together… It is a hurricane get together. Sure, fairly actually a celebration to experience out a hurricane.
Sophie and Bee are the final to reach on the get together — which Sophie’s associates low-key throw shade at her for (they did not assume she’d ~really~ make it). And Sophie proceeds to introduce Bee to everybody…
There’s David (Pete Davidson), the wealthy good friend whose mother and father personal the home they’re at:
His girlfriend, Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), a fledgling actor who David has been courting for six years:
Alice (Rachel Sennott), a fun-loving get together woman who hosts a podcast and “lacks self-awareness”:
Alice’s fortysomething outdoorsy boyfriend, Greg (Lee Tempo), who she met on Tinder:
And Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), the lone “single individual” of the good friend group who nonetheless has a factor for Sophie:
Many of the group is not significantly welcoming to Bee, and after the awkward introduction, some previous grudges are introduced up.
The temper takes a lighter, albeit temporary, flip as our Gen Z’ers (and one previous millennial) get together it up with ingesting, dancing, and a dabble of medicine.
By the point night time (and the storm) falls, the group decides to play certainly one of their “previous favourite” video games: Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies.
The sport works like this: After drawing slips of paper, one participant is designated the “assassin,” and solely they know who they’re. The lights are turned off, and everybody runs off via the mansion. If somebody is “killed” by the assassin, they should play lifeless, and an “X” is drawn on them. If somebody stumbles on the “lifeless” physique, they shout, “Our bodies, our bodies, our bodies,” and the lights are turned again on. The remaining gamers should attempt to determine who the killer is.
After all, you see the place that is going…proper?
The primary time they play the sport it goes as deliberate, NBD. However as tensions develop, THE POWER GOES OUT (after all), and the group decides to separate (by no means try this in a horror film, proper?!) for a bit.
And that is when certainly one of them ACTUALLY turns up lifeless. I will not say *who* exhibits up because the (first, sure, FIRST) lifeless physique, however suffice to say it is sufficient to ship everybody right into a frenzy.
Now, I am not going to spoil for you ways the remainder of the ~sport~ performs out, however let’s simply say that because the homicide thriller unfolds, so does the sophisticated historical past of this good friend group’s lives. Jealousy, mendacity, paranoia, manipulation, and so many different poisonous traits slowly come to the floor as issues get extra intense (AND MESSY).
As director Reijn defined, “The movie depicts each the toxicity but additionally the seduction of a good friend group. All of us stay in a world the place we’re not really one another or seeing what is going on on. The characters within the movie, they’re not likely what’s happening; they’re simply reacting, and that turns into virtually a hysteria. Beneath stress, we’re rather more pushed by our primal urges than we wish to assume.”
TBH, as an ~older~ millennial, I used to be absolutely anticipating to be aggravated by the very Gen Z qualities (and dialogue) of the characters. However, to Reijn’s credit score, there is a fairly clear self-awareness about all of it. Certain, fashionable issues like TikTok dances come into play, however not to a degree the place you would be rolling your eyes.
Like all good whodunnit horrors, Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies makes glorious use of its setting. As a result of, let’s be sincere, there’s nothing fairly as classically spooky as a large, unfamiliar mansion when the ability goes out. The filmmakers additionally experimented in intelligent methods with coloured flashlights, LEDs, iPhones, and glow sticks as a way to differentiate between characters, and all of it works very nicely.
As for the appearing, Stenberg makes a robust and compelling lead, and it is enjoyable to see Bakalova stretching her appearing abilities past comedy (as nice as she is at that), into one thing a bit extra ~critical~. Nevertheless, if I am being sincere, Rachel Sennott is hilarious as Alice and a complete scene stealer all through the film.
General, the movie is a enjoyable experience full of snickers, scares, and a little bit of gore. And you may positively be guessing proper up till the very finish the way it’ll all play out. However the large reveal on the finish — one which I assure you’ll not see coming — can have you laughing/screaming, “WOW, that is dumb.” (In a great way!)
