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Longing After the Fleshpots

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Longing After the Fleshpots

What the weird fascination with cannibalism reveals about what everyone really wants.

Luke Burgis
Apr 21, 2023
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Bones and All, a romantic horror about two cannibalistic teenage lovers on a road trip across 1980s America, received a ten-minute standing ovation when it debuted at the Venice Film Festival last summer. It is the latest in a growing trend of non-fantastical films and series juxtaposing cannibalism alongside themes of self-discovery or coming of age, s…

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