BodiesBodiesBodies director Halina Reijn discusses how A24's latest horror flick turns social media addiction into a bloody murder mystery: 'It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets ‘Mean Girls.’'
Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn says TikTok was a major inspiration behind A24’s newest horror flick. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, Rachel Sennott, Amandla Stenberg, and others, the film follows a dysfunctional group of young adults as a hurricane traps them in their friend’s mansion. After the storm kills the power in the house, the longtime friends decide to pass the time playing a murder mystery game they call Bodies Bodies Bodies.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The characters of Bodies Bodies Bodies are unmistakably Gen Z and heavily influenced by today's social media culture. The movie hardly contains a scene without someone texting, filming a TikTok, or emphasizing the importance of the group chat because someone missed a message. Words like “lit,” “canceled,” and countless other hyper-modern slang terms are used in abundance.
“It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets ‘Mean Girls.’ We are all so addicted to our phones that we’re not really in the moment, we’re not really looking at each other, and we’re not really looking at what’s going on in the world. When I was young, when I had a panic attack, I tried to hide it. I wouldn’t even know what word to use for it.
After it premiered earlier this year at South By Southwest, Bodies Bodies Bodies was met with praise for its biting satire. Critics called it “marvelous” and “ludicrous” in the same sentence, which only seems more appropriate after hearing the points that Reijn wanted it to make. The characters are mostly one-dimensional, self-indulgent, and shallow. Their friendships with each other crumble at the first sign of trouble.
Bodies Bodies Bodies is a fun ride that asks viewers some disturbing questions under the surface, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to fans of A24. This is the same studio behind Midsommar, Hereditary, and this year’s Men, so it already has a reputation for horror movies made scarier by the things they have to say about society at large. Bodies Bodies Bodies is simply the most recent addition to an already-impressive lineup.
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