We’ve had our fill of teenage vampires. We’ve had teenage werewolves, teenage witches, teenage zombies, telekinetic teenagers, countless teenage serial killers and even a possessed teenage hand. In recent years, though, we’ve been introduced to the teenage cannibal – whose arrival culminates with Bones and All, a nicely poignant film about adolescence, belonging and the compulsion to eat human flesh.
The idea of fusing the coming-of-age movie with the grisly subgenre of cannibal-horror might sound outlandish on the face of it but it will be entirely familiar to anyone who saw Raw, Julia Ducournau’s film about an angsty medical student, or Yellowjackets, the hit HBO drama about a high-school football team who crash-land in the forest.
