‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Ending Explained: Who Is the Killer?

Bodies Bodies Bodies is now streaming on Netflix, which means quite a few people will, for the first time, be exposed to the Bodie Bodies Bodies ending and all of its glorious irony.

Directed by Halina Reijn, with a screenplay by Sarah DeLappe (based on a story by Kristen Roupenian), this 2022 horror comedy was a critical and box office hit. In particular, the movie spoke to Gen-Z, who felt the spirit, tone, and lingo of the young generation. The movie takes place over one night in a remote mansion, where five lifelong friends—most of them rich and beautiful—have gathered for a weekend of partying and fun. But when someone starts killing them off, it gets significantly less fun. But be sure to watch until the end: This is not your typical slasher flick. It’s so much better.

Bodies Bodies Bodies is sure to find new life on Netflix, and hopefully, you’ll pay attention as you watch. But if you got lost along the way, or got confused by that plot twist ending, then we’re here to help. Read on for an analysis of the Bodies Bodies Bodies plot summary and the Bodies Bodies Bodies ending explained.

Warning: Major Bodies Bodies Bodies spoilers ahead. Duh!

Bodies Bodies Bodies plot summary:

Bee (Maria Bakalova) accompanies her new girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) on the way to a “hurricane party,” aka a weekend in a mansion owned by Sophie’s best childhood friend, David (Pete Davidson). There’s a hurricane in the forecast, so Sophie, David, and the rest of their rich friends want to get wasted together. Those friends include Alice (Sennott), a clueless flirt/dumb party girl; Alice’s date Greg (Lee Pace), a random crunch hippie who’s way too old to be there; Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), a realist with an angry side; and Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), David’s aspiring actress girlfriend.

That night, Sophie suggests the group play a game called “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a version of a “wink murder” party game in which there is one “killer” who goes around “killing” people in the group, while the other people attempt to guess who it is. The game devolves. Greg fights with David and goes to bed early. David fights with Emma and storms off. The storm gets worse, and the power cuts out. The cell service is down. Oh, yeah, and the girls discovers David with his throat slashed by the pool, and sit covered in his blood as he takes his last dying breath.

After they realize they can’t help David or call anyone, the girls attempt to drive away in Sophie’s car—but the battery is dead. Back at the house, they discuss who could have killed David. Alice suspects Max, another friend who left the house before the events of the movie, after a fight with David. Jordan, however, suspects Greg, the random guy Alice brought to the house without knowing anything about him. The rest of the girls agree—especially after they go through his luggage and discover a go-bag, complete with a knife, a map, and other survival gear.

The girls corner Greg in the home gym with knives. He doesn’t seem to know what’s going on, but he does easily disarm Sophie and grab her knife. After a tense stand-off, Bee bludgeons Greg with a kettlebell to the back of the head, killing him. Yay, they got the killer! … Right? They still aren’t sure.

Amid the terror and confusion, Emma kisses Sophie, and Sophie relapses on drugs. Later, Alice discovers Emma’s dead body at the bottom of the stairs, with a gushing head wound. Now convinced there is a killer, Jordan and Alice gang up on Bee, the newcomer. They force her out of the house and into the storm, while Sophie stands by. While outside, Bee sees Jordan holding a gun through the window. She finds her way back inside, and warns Sophie that she believes Jordan is the killer. The girls fight—Jordan reveals that she does, in fact, have a gun but insists she’s not the killer—and all the pent-up resentment and hurt feelings come pouring out. Jordan reveals to Bee that she slept with Sophie before the trip, and to “check her texts” if she doesn’t believe her. When Alice is screaming hurtful things at Jordan, Jordan snaps and shoots her in the leg.

All of the girls struggle to grab the gun from Jordan, and in the shuffle, Alice is shot and killed. It’s not clear who pulled the trigger. Jordan and Sophie fight at the top of the stairs, and Bee pushes Jordan off the banister, killing her. As she lays dying, Jordan tells Bee to “check her texts.”

Bodies Bodies Bodies ending explained:

Sophie and Bee wait out the rest of the night, but Bee avoids Sophie, not trusting her. In the morning, Sophie confesses to Bee that she witnessed Emma—high on drugs—trip and fall down the stairs and that it was her fault Emma died. Bee holds Sophie at gunpoint and demands to see Sophie’s phone, to see the texts. They skirmish over the phone, and Bee accidentally picks up David’s phone in the process.

Bee uses David’s dead body to open the phone with face ID. Bee and Sophie watch a TikTok video that David was making, in which he is messing around with the sword and accidentally slits his own throat. They realize there was never a “killer” who was after them. All the bloodshed and fighting was for nothing. Oh, that irony is so delicious.

A man comes to the house—aka Max (Conner O’Malley), the friend whom Alice originally suspected. He asks what happened, and the power comes back on. Bee comments that she now has cell reception, and the movie ends.

Who is the killer in Bodies Bodies Bodies?

In a word? No one. But also, everyone. (That said, in terms of sheer body count, Bee kills the most people—she bludgeoned Greg and pushed Jordan.) But the real killer was the hysteria, suspicion, and panic surrounding David’s accidental death. It’s a brilliant, hilarious twist on the slasher serial killer trope. Bodies Bodies Bodies said “Hold my beer” to Scream. You guys have two killers? Well, we’re going to have zero killers!

How perfect is that? It’s arguably the best horror movie ending of the last decade.