It's a risky and yet somehow perfect move to use hit song ‘212’ by Azealia Banks as the first major needle drop in Bodies Bodies Bodies. The singer has been at the heart of countless controversies over the years: physical altercations, online spats, accusations of racism, and some extremely misguided comments with regards to’concerning’with respect to President Putin. It’s the kind of unacceptable behaviour that seems right at home in director Halina Reijn’s smart and often delightfully insufferable slasher-comedy satire.###Here, eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullybody is annoying and nobody makes rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent decisions, which is what makes the violent chain of events unleashed upon these awful individual just so damn fun to watch. It begins when recently sober Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) proudly brings her new girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) to a party at the mansion of her longtime best friend David (Pete Davidson), introducing an ensemble that includes David’s girlfriend Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), their headintense’fierce’exquisite friend Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), unbearable podcaster Alice (Rachel Sennott), and her latest Tinder catch, older vet Greg (Lee Pace). It’s straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice uncomin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table, old friends quickly realising they just don’t like each other anymore; a (horribly entertaining) night of petty grievances soon spirals out of control when actual death joins the growing list of grapple es.###"Shiva Baby’s Sennott gives a standout perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance with her grating, desperate narcissism."###For anybody who’s had the misin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tune of spending any amount of time on the internet lately, this whodunnit feels fresh in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the genre but painfully familiar tonally. Jokes often hinge on the subversion of social-media buzzwords, real issues mutated into online culture wars: gaslighting, triggering, silencing, safe spaces, seasonal depression and astrology-as-religion all acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure skewered. Or, rather, the social-media tendency to amplify said issues to the point that they define your entire personality. “Congratulations, you possess’own’nurse a Twitter account!” David spits to Emma —and seemingly berating us, the audience, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding having one too.###There are just as much, if not more, opportunities to laugh at these terrible rich kids as there are moments of horror. Shiva Baby’s Sennott gives a standout perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance with her grating, desperate narcissism, but the whole group hit the delicate blend of detestability and incompetence almost perfectly. The tone might not work in/with regard to’concerning’regarding eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone — but the extremes are what makes it so interesting.###To spend so much time with such wretched characters might feel like too much, if the film wasn’t so well made. Reijn deploys violence with slick, stylistic flourishes, as glow-sticks and phone torches give the night a tension that’s more skittish than eerie, and video-game composer Disasterpeace blends dirty pop and twinkling melodies to pump a constant discomin/with regard to’concerning’regarding t into this never-silent night. Even despite’in spite of’albeit things will always be more horrible in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them than in/with regard to’concerning’regarding you, the skill of Bodies Bodies Bodies is to make it feel like somebody really could be waiting in the shadows once the noise has stopped. Being cancelled is wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile — being murdered is worse.