You may hate every single person in this movie, but hey — they won’t be around for long.
You know those scenes in 1970s Giallo where there are huge parties, where women fight one another in paper dresses (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh) or where people soft-swing on couches while people pass out around them (Amuck!)? What would those parties look like today? That’s one of the things I learned from this movie.
Directed by Halina Reijn (Babygirl) and written by Sarah DeLappe and Kristen Roupenian, this movie begins with a wild party thrown during a hurricane at David’s (Pete Davidson) house. Everyone’s on drugs, they’re all entitled, they’re all gorgeous, and most of them are going to die.
Amongst this rich jet set, Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) has brought her new girlfriend, an Eastern European immigrant named Bee (Maria Bakalova). It’s not comfortable at all for her, as she gets to know Jordan (Myha’la), David’s girlfriend Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), Alice (Rachel Sennott) and her boyfriend Greg (Lee Pace). Things are so fractious already that one person, Max (Conner O’Malley), has already left.
The storm ruins everyone’s phone reception, the power goes out, and a game of (Mafia, Werewolf, Murder In the Dark) goes wrong. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. David slaps Greg too hard, who leaves, then David gets angry about the game and starts smashing things. Then, they find his body with his throat slashed. As you can imagine, this already tension-filled night explodes, as without the internet, everyone, well, loses their minds and starts to kill one another.
But what if there wasn’t a murderer in the first place?
Nearly an Agatha Christie story with relationship drama, this movie has taught me to never allow people to saber at my house.
In an interview with the director, she said that the sources of light each person uses symbolize their personality. Bee has her phone on her hip, which shows her selflessness. Jordan has a headlamp for confrontation. Alice has glowtubes so that she is the center of everyone’s attention. Emma is introverted, so she never has a light and neither does Greg or David.
As happy as this ends, the underwear that Bee finds in Sophie’s car belongs to Jordan, which is a clue that they did have sex and more than just a relapse, she cheated on her.