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A24’s ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Trailer Transforms Party Game Into Violently Funny Whodunnit
Bodies Bodies Bodies is heading to theaters on August 5, 2022, and this morning A24 follows up yesterday’s poster reveal with the first official trailer.
The Bodies Bodies Bodies trailer teases just how insane A24’s latest will get, both in biting humor and bloody violence, as it transforms a seemingly benign party game into something far deadlier when a friend group implodes. Watch the trailer below!
A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies has been rated “R” for…
“Violence, bloody images, drug use, sexual references, and pervasive language.”
In the A24 horror-comedy, “When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.”
I wrote in my review for BD, “Using a familiar social deduction game to implode an affluent group of fake friends in the most heinous way makes for a dementedly fun time that’s just as mean-spirited with the horror as it is the comedy.”
The cast for Bodies Bodies Bodies includes Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Pete Davidson (The Suicide Squad), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Myha’la Herrold (Generation), Chase Sui Wonders (Palm Springs), and Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy).
Halina Reijn directed Bodies Bodies Bodies for A24, written by Kristen Roupenian, Sarah Delappe, Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94, Watcher), Joshua Sharp, and Aaron Jackson. Bodies Bodies Bodies, which made its World Premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, marks Reijn’s sophomore effort after debuting with thriller Instinct.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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