Top Five “One Crazy Night” Movies and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’

Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022

A hurricane party turns into a game of Mafia gone wrong; both hosts land on real empathy under the satire, with Pete Davidson as the one performance that didn't land for Sean.

Ready or Not 2019

The class-anxiety-at-a-mansion touchstone Joanna keeps coming back to.

Heathers 1988

Sean's number-one reference point for the film's teen-clique DNA.

Scream (1996) 1996

Sean's formative slasher; the yardstick he measures his own self-consciousness about age against.

I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997

Named alongside Scream as the Kevin Williamson-core era Sean and Joanna grew up on.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982

Sean's shorthand for the movie's opening tone, before it curdles.

Shiva Baby 2020

One of Joanna's favorite movies of its year; she calls it a One Crazy Day movie and a straitjacket in equal measure.

Dear Evan Hansen 2021

Joanna says Amandla Stenberg stood out even in a movie everyone agrees is bad.

Assassination Nation 2018

Filed under the same Sam Levinson online-anxiety wave as Euphoria.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2020

Maria Bakalova's Oscar-nominated breakthrough; both hosts are still sizing her up as an actress from this one alone.

Halloween 1978

Sean's example of a slasher that's technically a One Crazy Night movie.

Sixteen Candles 1984

The teen-party-for-one-night flavor.

Can't Hardly Wait 1998

Same flavor, one more example.

It Happened One Night 1934

Sean's case that screwball comedies are basically the genre's root system.

Scream (2022) 2022

Comes up as Sean thinks through Ready or Not's filmmakers and their other locked-house thriller.

After Hours 1985

No. 1 (tied) - Scorsese's Soho odyssey; she calls it the truest, bluest definition of the genre.

Before Sunrise 1995

No. 2 - the walk-and-talk entry; no external ticking clock, just two people breaking down each other's guard.

His Girl Friday 1940

No. 3 - the Howard Hawks screwball classic; a deadline movie instead of a party movie.

Collateral 2004

No. 4 - watched it for the first time for this episode; calls it a career-best Tom Cruise turn.

Go 1999

No. 5 - her self-declared cheat, since a chunk of it happens in Vegas.

After Hours 1985

No. 1 (tied) - both hosts landed on it independently.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966

No. 2 - Mike Nichols's directorial debut; Sean says he thought about it constantly while watching Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Something Wild 1986

No. 3 - Jonathan Demme's screwball turned dangerous; Ray Liotta shows up over halfway through and changes the temperature.

Panic Room 2002

No. 4 - Fincher's home-invasion piece with Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart.

From Dusk Till Dawn 1996

No. 5 - the Rodriguez/Tarantino strip-club-turns-vampire-den movie he's picked for a top five before.

Game Night 2018

Underrated and underseen, in her view.

Four Rooms 1995

Would've been her number five before she watched Collateral for the show.

The Invitation 2015

Green Room 2015

The Purge 2013

And its sequels, per Sean.

Good Time 2017

Superbad 2007

Booksmart 2019

Die Hard 1988

Miracle Mile 1988

A nuclear-panic meet-cute movie; a former video-store cult classic.

Instinct 2019

Her Dutch feature debut, about a therapist who falls for a serial rapist; got her noticed by A24.

Don's Plum 2001

Her single biggest inspiration for Bodies Bodies Bodies; barely released in the U.S. and hard to find.

Kids 1995

Cited as one of the best films ever for how far inside its characters' world it gets.

Reservoir Dogs 1992

Cited for how the characters talk and for keeping the action in one place.

Broadcast News 1987

The last great thing she'd seen, though she admits mid-interview it's her first time watching it.