Film

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Name: Bodies Bodies Bodies
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Released: 2022
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders

A birthday party at a remote mansion curdles into a night of accusations, IG-ready panic, and actual dying, as a group of over-served, over-therapized rich kids play a murder game that turns real. It's less whodunit than who's-toxic, a slasher run through the lens of group-chat paranoia and gen-Z speak. Funny, mean, and a little hollow by design — for people who want their horror to double as a friendship autopsy.

TMDb rating

6.1

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