Review of Bodies

Bodies (2016)
4/10
Bodies
14 November 2019
The beginning of this film gives the impression it is a black comedy, but it soon transpires there is nothing to laugh about in what is about to happen, and it is rightly styled a psychological thriller. Produced on an ultra-low budget, most of the action takes place in one room, and mostly there are three, often only two people in a scene.

The bad guys are two brothers: the irredeemably evil Corey, and Jeffery who is not only a dullard but easily manipulated. The two pose as paramedics, but instead of taking people to the hospital they murder them and sell their body parts for transplant. For this modern day Burke and Hare there are rich pickings indeed, until they kidnap a gorgeous blonde who for some reason needs to be kept alive, which suits Corey because he can rape her regularly while administering both psychological and physical torture. The fly in the ointment is that this girl is not only highly intelligent but a dead ringer for their late sister, with whom both men did things no man should ever do to or with his own sister.

It is not giving away too much to say the ending is gory, or that some people will be genuinely sickened by the wanton brutality meted out by Corey, which is far more convincing than most of the cracked skulls and broken limbs that can be found in many high budget thrillers and horror films.
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