Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Published on November 22, 2021

Filmmaker Chloe Okuno was originally tapped to direct the project, but this would land in the lap of Halina Reijn. The actress-turned director who first broke out with 2019’s Instinct (Dutch entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards) worked from a spec script originally written by “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian. An A24 project, Bodies, Bodies, Bodies began filming staring Lee Pace, Pete Davidson, Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott and Myha’la Herrold.

Gist: There are no plot details for this slasher film.

Production Co./Producers: 2AM’s David Hinojosa, David Fenkel, John Hodges, Daniel Katz.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).