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Black comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies opened in UK cinemas last weekend, telling the story of a group of young adults who gather for a \u201churricane party\u201d at a flashy mansion.<\/p>\n
Things go downhill when one of their number is found dead, and from there on out various members of the group are killed off as they try to work out who among them is a murderer.<\/p>\n
That premise has invited a few comparisons to the classic Agatha Christie mystery And Then There Were None, but speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a>\u00a0in an exclusive interview, director Halina Reijn revealed that those similarities were entirely coincidental.<\/p> \u201cI had never seen or heard of And Then There Were None,\u201d she said. \u201cBut everybody\u2019s mentioned it to me, so I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, I like it!’\u201d<\/p>\n She went on to discuss some of the films that had<\/em> served as inspiration for Bodies Bodies Bodies.<\/p>\n \u201cI like Clue, the movie Clue,\u201d she said. \u201cI like to think this is a contemporary Clue.<\/p>\n \u201cI was also very inspired by Heathers, which is a horror movie that also has a slightly lighter tone. And I basically watched Reservoir Dogs a couple of times, I watched Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then the whole opening \u2013 the French kiss \u2013 is a tribute to a shot like that in the movie Kids, which is about youth culture in a very different way.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think my main inspirations don\u2019t come from murder mysteries or horror \u2013 but mainly come from theatre and then some obscure films!\u201d<\/p>\n