Cineastes have been waiting a long time for provocative Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino to reunite with his Call Me By Your Name star, Timothée Chalamet, and perhaps it’s the former’s experience on the 2018 Suspiria remake that has led the pair to reunite for a horror movie. That’s pure speculation, but what we know for a fact is that their new film, Bones and All, will hit UK cinemas on November 25.
Adapted from Camille DeAngelis’ smash hit YA novel of the same name by screenwriter David Kajganic and co-starring Taylor Russell (Escape Room), Bones and All is a lovers-on-the-run road movie with a difference—our young lovers are cannibals. Russell is Maran, a troubled young woman who is abandoned by her father on her 18th birthday after he realises he cannot cope with her carnivorous cravings.
Embarking on a cross-country journey of discovery, she finds not only a secret, underground community of fellow “eaters” and “feeders”, but passionate romance with fellow cannibal Lee (Chalamet at his darkest and dreamiest). But the course of true love never runs smooth, especially if you are a monster jonesing for your next hit of man meat, and even more so if Mark Rylance is hanging around as a creepy elder cannibal with designs more sinister than even the average cannibal can stomach.
This is the sort of transgressive cinema that is sure to divide audiences, although critics have eaten it up so far and the audience at the Venice Film Festival gave it a tasty 10 minute standing ovation. Screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, who gave us Sinister, Doctor Strange, and The Black Phone, called it “this generation’s Near Dark” which is high praise indeed. We’re looking forward to digging in.
