There's a lover in the story, but the story is still the same.

Hello and welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike Munter, as ever, I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome usually on this podcast we explore

and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular

sub-jummer as one series at a time.

Now we are currently in the middle of our eighth series, exploring the evolution of the vampire

movie and a new episode in that vampire series drops every Friday, but this week we're

also bringing you a bonus episode because this week sees the UK release of the new movie

by Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All.

I saw Bones and All at the London Film Festival at its UK premiere a couple of months ago,

and I absolutely loved it.

For me, it's one of my favourite films of the year.

Now I don't know whether we'd necessarily call Bones and All a pure horror film.

That is up for discussion, which we will be talking about throughout this episode, but

I do think that it dabbles in some really powerful and really effective horror and it does

have some pretty extreme stuff going on.

But as with so many of Luca Guadagnino's brilliant films, it almost kind of defies genre in

that way.

So I'm here today to talk all about the movie in depth, so the way this episode is going

to work.

First of all, me and my guests are going to talk about our initial reactions and thoughts

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