WICKED GAMES

BODIES BODIES BODIES A24’s acclaimed horror takes a sly look at dysfunctional friendship.

- LEILA LATIF

Halina Reijn is not the most obvious filmmaker to take on a Gen Z horror-comedy, having made a name for herself in “Dutch hardcore theatre”, but she teamed up with A24 to bring Sarah DeLappe’s screenplay to life. Assembling a cast of screaming-hot young actors, including Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson, the film is about a group of privileged twentysomethings reuniting at a remote mansion that looks like if “Sofia Coppola voted Trump”.

The plan – to have fun and make passive aggressive digs at one another – takes a turn for the murderous when they play a drinking game called ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’. Reijn, who had grown up playing the game, tells Teasers that murder aside, such games always have “really bad consequences”.