Luca Guadagnino
Bones and all

They feed on human flesh, preferably still warm and bloody; they can't help it, they occasionally need it to survive.

They are willing to kill to obtain nourishment, but it's not always necessary; they can also wait for the human in question to die of natural causes.

They have a sense of smell so developed that they can recognize each other even from a kilometer away, and they can also sense who is about to die.

The film takes us across the States from Virginia to Maryland, through Ohio, into Indiana, and then to Kentucky, Minnesota, stopping in the west in Michigan.

From the seemingly calm beginning, something happens (that, for someone like me who knows nothing about the plot, is quite shocking) that literally makes you jump out of your seat and slowly drags you into a vortex, only softened by the love story of the two protagonists. In the meantime, you find yourself glued to the screen for over two hours, despite wanting to almost immediately suspend watching this film adapted from a novel written in 2015 (that is, 7 years prior) by a thirty-five-year-old woman who was a staunch vegetarian from the age of 16 and became vegan four years before writing it, so convinced that she became an "Vegan Lifestyle Educator" at the "Main Street Vegan Academy" run by Victoria Moran.

p.s. A curiosity: among the many names involved in the making of this eccentric film, there's also that of an unsuspecting daughter of a famous artist, Francesca Scorsese, daughter of Martin Charles, and that's it...