Alone and on the road, Maren encounters Scully (Mark Rylance, channelling Night of the Hunter), a creepily overbearing cannibal adviser: “Never, never eat an eater,” he cautions. Spoiler alert: she ate her first corpse aged three. He takes off, leaving behind a cassette – Bones and All is quietly set in the 1980s, thanks to Elliot Hostetter’s understated production design – and details of Maren’s true nature. The family hastily move on, but her Dad has had enough. Maren, interpreted by the charismatic Taylor Russell, seems like a regular outsider teen, with unfashionable clothes and an overprotective dad (André Holland), until a sleepover ends in bloody dismemberment. Still, Luca Guadagnino’s dreamy anthropophagic-themed adventure has plenty to offer any viewer not deterred by the prospect of intestine chewing. Adapted from Camille DeAngelis’s Young Adult novel of the same name, David Kajganich’s script can’t avoid being Twilight, but with cannibals.
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