Bones and All (2022) KILL COUNT

Zoran Gvojic

Mike Cygan

Bones and All (2022) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and seventy-eight video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count

## Overview

Maren Yearly is a teenage girl living in Maryland under the care of her father Frank. With her having displayed cannibalistic tendencies ever since she murdered her babysitter at the age of three, Frank abandons her shortly after her 18th birthday, having become overly-distressed due to Maren's lack of remorse for her actions. He leaves behind some cash, her birth certificate, and a message on a cassette tape, in which he states that he hopes she will someday learn to overcome her urges.

Maren decides to travel to Minnesota, which is listed as the birthplace of her mother Janelle, who left her when she was an infant. Whilst waiting at a bus station, she is approached by an older man named Sully, who recognises her as a fellow "eater" because of her scent and leads her to a house owned by an elderly woman near-death. After the woman dies, Sully begins feasting on her corpse, and Maren, though reluctant, joins in. Sully expresses interest in becoming a father figure for Maren, but she leaves the house soon after.

Whilst shoplifting supplies in Indiana, Maren witnesses an intoxicated male customer harassing a woman, before a young man named Lee forces the man to leave. Maren later spots Lee outside, feeding on the man's corpse, and the two make introductions. Lee offers to help Maren find her mother, and the two head off in the victim's stolen truck. The two grow to fall in love with each other during the journey, and during a brief stay in Lee's hometown in Kentucky, Maren notices Lee's unwillingness to disclose certain aspects of his past, such as his father's absence and the reason why he avoids being spotted around town.

Maren manages to track down the home of her maternal grandmother, Barbara, who, despite having had no prior knowledge of her existence, informs her that Janelle voluntarily admitted herself into a psychiatric hospital in Fergus Falls several years prior. There, Maren finally reunites with her mother, who she is shocked to find has self-cannibalized her own hands. However, a nurse then gives Maren a letter that Janelle wrote to her in case they were to ever meet again, which concludes with Janelle's belief that Maren would be better off dead than living as a "monster". Janelle proceeds to attack her daughter before being restrained.

Disturbed and unwilling to go down the same path as her mother, Maren leaves while Lee is asleep, before being approached by Sully, who has been stalking her. She turns down his offer to become companions, causing him to curse at her in anger before departing. Once he realizes Maren is gone, a devastated Lee decides to return home.

Maren eventually makes her way back to Kentucky. She runs into Lee's younger sister Kayla, who reveals that, on the night of her and Lee's alcoholic, abusive father's disappearance, he beat both of his children before mysteriously vanishing while Kayla ran to get the police. Having been initially considered the prime suspect, Lee was cleared once it was proven that the blood found on him was his own. Maren and Lee reunite and rekindle their relationship, before deciding to flee westward. Lee reveals to Maren that he was responsible for his father's disappearance, having killed him and eating his corpse before hiding it away. He tearfully asks Maren if she thinks he is a bad person, but she declares her love for him, and they vow to abstain from cannibalism and attempt to lead a normal life together.

Sometime later, the two are shown to be living happily in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Maren returns home one day to find Sully has broken into their apartment, and he threatens her at knifepoint, bemoaning her past rejections. After Lee arrives, they succeed in killing Sully, but Lee is fatally wounded in the struggle. As he bleeds out, Lee expresses his wish for Maren to eat his body as he dies. Maren frantically refuses at first but eventually gives in.

## Deaths

### Counted Deaths

1. Mrs. Harmon - Died of natural causes, then eaten by Sully and Maren - 26 mins in
2. Barry - Killed and eaten offscreen by Lee - 34 mins in
3. Carnie - Climactic throat slit by Lee - 1 hr 7 mins in
4. Brad - Flashback bashing with tire iron - 1 hr 36 mins in
5. Sully - Suffocated, stabbed, drawn in bathtub - 1 hr 58 mins in
6. Kayla - Killed and eaten offscreen by Sully - 2 hrs in (Death discovered)
7. Lee - Stabbed in chest, eaten by Maren bones and all - 2 hrs 3 mins in

### Non-counted Deaths

* Babysitter Penny - Eaten by Maren before the events of the film
* Boy at Camp - Eaten by Maren before the events of the film
* Lee's Father - Eaten by Lee before the events of the film
* Lee's Babysitter - Eaten by Lee before the events of the film
* Sully's Grandfather - Eaten by Sully before the events of the film
* Mr. Kerns - Died by throat cancer before the events of the film
* Sully's Other Victims - Eaten by Sully offscreen, hair seen

#### Numbers and Sponsor Deaths

* James A. Janisse - Finger bitten off by Chelsea, possibly fatally killing him

## Trivia

* This is the first Kill Count Chelsea has hosted since American Psycho 2.
	+ This is also Chelsea's first Kill Count of 2023.
* This is the second Kill Count to use different music for the Numbers segment, the other one was Critters 2.
* Actor Mark Rylance and Sully are finalists for Best Supporting Performer and Best Villain in the Dead Meat Horror Awards 2023.
* Chelsea accidentally counted both Kayla and Lee as kill #6.
* This is the first Sunday Kill Count of Year 7.
* This is the first Kill Count of Year 7 to have the lights on the set be the normal purple color.
* This is the only non-James hosted Kill Count to not have a Fake Ad segment.