Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a "hurricane party" at the remote mansion owned by a friend of her girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg). She doesn't really fit in with the trust fund kids that will be there, being working class and from an (unspecified) Eastern European country, and is filled with trepidation.

The plan is to party through the storm, getting wasted, horny and to conspicuously consume at each other.

Things are going OK, with the odd bit of sniping amongst old friends until they get to the party game "Bodies Bodies Bodies".

No good will come of this.

Halina Reijn delivers a strongly dark comic stab at The Lord of the Flies populated by GenZ instead of public schoolboys.

When the power goes out there's much chaotic action in the sprawling mansion lit only by smartphones and the trust fund kids predictably turn on the 'outsiders'.

There are standoffs over weapons or who said what, when, in the group chat.

At one point the line "What is your podcast about?" is used with utter seriousness and potential consequences. Similarly "Check. Her. Texts".

Somebody says "Don't call her a psychopath, that's ableist". I clapped.

9/10, highly recommended.