A horror movie, a love story, BONES AND ALL is both and more, an accomplished and compulsive thriller that whets the appetite and keeps you asking for more.

Packed with wincingly convincing detail, BONES AND ALL calls us to share the irresistible and merciless secret of a couple of anthropophagus as they cross the country, sharing not only a terrible taboo but deep seated family issues.

Cannibal kissing may come with its own set of lip smacking risk and consequence, but this teenage road movie radiates a true tenderness. 

Bite accomplished, BONES AND ALL never pulls its lunches delivering a compulsive thriller that satiates the appetite for surprise.

Metaphor with the macabre, analogy with anathema, truth with taboo, plenty to chew on in this gruesome toothsome, although repellent to those who can’t handle the tooth.

Taylor Russell swoops to conquer as Maren, the flesh eating femme, her condition closeted and covered up by her dad for eighteen years. When her craving overcomes her at a slumber party, Dad finally ditches her and she must fend for herself, her flesh eating fetish self controlled.

Into her orbit comes Sully, ( a creepy portrayal by Mark Rylance) a fellow anthropophagus, who tutors her in the art of stalking the terminally prone, and attaches an unhealthy appetite towards her. Companionship inclusive of carnal is what he desires but she does not reciprocate, leaving him unrequited. Hell hath no fury like a people eater scorned.

Instead, she throws in her lot with a more similarly aged flesh feeder, Lee (Timothee Chalamet), and they become a Romeo & Juliet of the jugular, two teenagers in love with an overwhelming desire to feast on human sushi.

Written by David Kajganish, based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, directed by Luca Guadagnino, BONES AND ALL could well have turned out a gross out ghoul meets ghoul gazpacho of gore, but the film makers have made it into an unexpected bonne bouche, a skill which has made the subject matter palatable.

Searing and genuinely scary cameos from Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon Green and Chloe Sevigny combined with gorgeous cinematography from Arseni Khachaturan, production design by Elliott Hostetter and ambient score by Reznor and Ross make BONES AND ALL an all consuming passion.