Film
Anna and the Apocalypse
- Director
- John McPhail
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 98 mins
It’s here: that Scottish Christmas zombie apocalypse musical you ordered. Superficially, this might seem like a painfully contrived mash-up, but John McPhail‘s film was nominated for the audience award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and has been warmly received by critics for successfully carving out its own niche in an over-crowded, cliché-ridden genre.
As renowned horror expert Kim Newman put it in his Screen International review: “…the light touch and a vein of sweetness make some of the sicker jokes palatable. It’s also an alternative Christmas film, complete with end-of-term variety show and a gurning zombie Santa, and showcases decent work from an appealing, mostly unfamiliar cast.”
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