How does watching them eat other people fit into that? Beats me. They’re meant to be sexy and sympathetic and relatable. The characters may, for a few moments, act like flesh-hungry zombies, but they’re not zombies. Yet the ultimate reason they’re no fun to sit through is that cannibalism, in this movie, has no higher (or lower) meaning, no import beyond itself. If that sounds a touch grotesque, it is I found the scenes garish and unpleasant. When they’re done with a meal, it will look like a serial killer was there. We see the characters ripping into bodies and munching away, the flesh coming off in chunks, the blood splattering everywhere. In this case, though, the feedings aren’t sleekly suggestive the way they are in a vampire film.
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