All the Little Animals (1998)

All the Little Animals 1998 Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who wanders the highways to bury roadkill animals Bobby becomes the old mans apprentice and learns to see the world of nature in a strange idyllic way But soon the shadow of his stepfather catches up to him and Bobbys world explodes into a grotesque nightmare