10 Movies That Ought to Have a Villain But Don't
6. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The precise intersection between West Coast Millennial and Gen Z culture, Halina Reijn's influencer horror Bodies Bodies Bodies takes some major faces from the social media generation - Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson included - and turns them loose on a mansion-in-the-woods movie that redefines its genre and tropes.
The premise is familiar enough: a group of 20-somethings hole up in a remote building, cut off from mainstream society by great distances, bad weather and lack of cellular reception.
When a hide-n-seek style party game has one of their group turn up dead, the fake friends turn on each other while trying to save themselves from whoever-dunit. As the bodies bodies bodies pile high, and the guests' numbers whittle down, it seems impossible that one of them is not the killer pulling the strings...
Well, spoiler alert: the big twist of Bodies is that there is no villain at all. The entire film is just a bunch of privileged loudmouths arguing themselves to death, stumbling into mishap after mishap with unintentionally fatal consequences. But who could have seen that coming?