I tried to express to my 18-year-old daughter that this movie was a stripped-down vampire movie, but she insisted these were cannibals, NOT vampires. After 171 episodes of "The Vampire Diaries" and from a kid who grew up on The Twilight saga, I tend to think her view might be slightly skewed. All the vampire purest debate aside, this is a striped down vampire movie, a teen love story, and a bloody beautiful film that looks like it came out of the 70s. What's it all about? It's about Maren (Taylor Russell) who has turned 18. After eating her friend's finger like it was a chicken wing (presumably because she was unable to control her urges to feed) her father has cut her loose, told her he can't do it anymore, left her cash and some clues to where she might find her mother. Thus begins a road trip where she meets fellow eater Sully (Mark Rylance - creepy as hell!) to explain what she is, an eater (they need to eat people and have an incredible sense of smell). Along the way she meets Lee (Timothée Chalamet) and romance ensues. This is a Twilight/Bonnie and Clyde romance movie and it's bloody as a slaughterhouse. I loved it. Definitely one of my favourite films of the year and one of the best-looking movies of the year. Catch this finger licking tasty picture at a theatre near you.
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