Format: Streaming video from Hulu Plus on rockin’ flatscreen.
Genres go through very definite periods where tropes get changed or rewritten or played with. Scream did that for slasher movies, and after its release there have been a number of slasher and horror films that played with the idea of being more meta. Bodies Bodies Bodies appears to be at least in part another step in the evolution of modern horror and horror-adjacent movies. This is as much a commentary on many aspects of modern culture as it is a bloody whodunnit.
The elevator pitch here is that a group of very privileged 20-somethings who have known each other for years decide to have a party at the opulent house of one of their number during a hurricane and things get out of hand quickly. There’s a lot more that goes into it, but that really is the basics of the film. Our group of friends is going to include a couple of outsiders including who is clearly going to be our final girl since she is the character we tend to focus on.
