(movies) Bodies Bodies Bodies(2022) starts as fun, but could have been so much more

This started as your usual slasher movie with a group of friends inhabiting big house in the woods, bathing in pool, just having fun and enjoying themselves. Enter Sophie and Bee, gay couple who just arrived and Sophie was absent for a while with drug problems. We can see some tensions between the group, like especially between Sophie and Jordan. Storm rises and our heroes move inside and start to play a game called Bodies bodies bodies, with false murderer killing someone and others have to investigate the case. When their host David gets killed for real, they search for culprit, paranoia and tension, also body count rises….

Well, this one was directed by Halina Reijn, Dutch actress known for starring in Paul Verhoeven´s Black Book, also in Tom Cruise´s Valkyrie among other movies, also written by Sarah DeLappe and it was somewhere, I think it was on Bloody Disgusting page advertised as LGBTQ slasher horror. I don´t see why, because besides some bisexual storylines, besides main two characters being gay, there is absolutely nothing that indicates that. First half of the movie, as killings start it was fun to watch with characterization of protagonists evolving, discovering kept secrets, hatred, envy and other ugly feelings that came to the surface. It was also fun to think for me as a viewer who the killer might be, playing with thoughts although the ending twist is kind of disappointing with let down. I think that they wanted to make something different with this one than your typical slasher movie, but the direction they went could have been so much better explored. But, this is not bad movie indeed. But, could have been so much better.

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