Bones and All is a movie that defies easy categorization. Its the latest film from Luca Guadagnino the director of Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria who to date has quite the pristine reputation. It stars Timothée Chalamet one of the biggest young stars on the planet. By those measures you might think its an awards drama. Its also a road trip romance set in the 1980s which sounds like the description of a comedy or fantasy. Then in addition its about two cannibals filled with all the stomach violence and gore to go with it. So yes its also a horror movie.
The combination of all of that probably should not work but through Guadagninos lens it truly does. Bones and All is a dense satisfying film that not only taps into multiple emotions its got that genre appeal that sets it apart from so many other films it sort of sounds like. The film keeps you fully engaged by building a fascinating, tantalizing world in which two lonely souls try to fall in love, while also eating people.
Though Chalamet is the big name here, the actual star of the movie is Escape Rooms Taylor Russell who plays Maren. Maren is a young woman living in poverty because she and her father continually have to move. And they move because Maren will on occasion bite someones finger off. Right up front Guadagnino adapting a screenplay by David Kajganich based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis is clear about this. Maren craves human flesh and it has basically destroyed everyone and everything around her.
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