Bodies Bodies Bodies Is a Bad Class Satire and a Boring Film
Like so many horror films attempting to be subversive, Bodies Bodies Bodies tries to satirize the upper class. But all it delivers are tired, lazy tropes about Gen Z.

Still from Bodies Bodies Bodies. (A24)
If you’ve seen the preview for Bodies Bodies Bodies, you pretty much know the drill.
The latest A24 horror film is about a group of Gen Z friends, all highly privileged, some extremely wealthy, who gather at the mansion owned by one of their fathers for a “hurricane party.” Once the torrential storm puts the lights out, and they’re all drunk and high, they play a murder mystery game called “bodies, bodies, bodies.” They creep around in the dark, trying to avoid the player who drew a card marked “X,” identifying them as the murderer; a touch on the back from this person counts as getting killed. Once the “victim” who’s playing dead is discovered, the cry of “bodies, bodies, bodies!” alerts the others, and then they all try to guess who the murderer is.
Assuming you weren’t born yesterday, you know that the friends will turn out to be frenemies at best, and an actual dead body will be discovered. Pretty soon they’ll all be playing “bodies, bodies, bodies” for real, with rich kids dropping like flies until the murderer is revealed by the last twentysomething(s) standing.