The believability of Luca Guadagnino’s spine-chilling feature “Bones and All” is no small feat, given the grotesque cannibalistic behavior exhibited by the film’s protagonists; but the task is one that the audio editors and mixers took to extremes, destroying raw chickens to achieve the effect of consuming another human being.“They had to buy many chickens and break bones and destroy flesh,” emphasized Michele Gualdrini, a recording mixer on the film.Based on a 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, “Bones and All” is a horror romance that stars cannibal outcasts Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothée Chalamet), who embark on a road trip to evade the consequences of their actions.The 130-minute feature contains no shortage of graphic content, including one especially nauseating sequence where a fellow cannibal named Sully eats an elderly woman after breaking into her home with Maren.
Supervising dialogue editor Davide Favargiotti
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