People love making movies, and among the kinds of movies that people love making is Christmas and people love making apocalyptic ones too, and of course, there are a hell of a lot of musicals made. Anna and the Apocalypse, however, is perhaps the very first feature length film to capture all these three genres at once. And believe it or not, it works.
Engaging in horrid reductions yet rather contagious, Anna and the Apocalypse narrates the events through the eyes of a marvelous high school lead actor Ella Hunt, who acts as Anna, a couth teenager who passes a year out of school in travel instead of college. Best friend John, (Malcolm Cumming), still in high school loves Anna but only wants to see her smile and therefore casts aside all his feelings for her. Skewed against their unexpected kind of friend Steph (Sarah Swire) who is bullied in school, is a normal one. While the relationship between Lisa (Marli Siu) and Chris (Christopher Leveaux) is a rather sweet one, it is quite clear that it will only last up to their early happy wedding.
In the film’s first, and possibly best musical number, these mismatched teens totally mess their Eli’s Up and Kesathu it’s clear they’re all getting frightened because there is no such a thing as ‘a Hollywood Ending’. It’s a catchy tune that fits into any of the High School Musical movies, but it also introduces a very important thought that more or less is present in all zombie movies: that life lived without thought comes to an end.
It would take some time for the zombies to rise from the background and go on a rampage in their small community, and Anna and John’s when cooperating together, they wake up from their fantasies of teen musicals and twerk through a bloody gory place, without any awareness of what should be more important than their little distractions.
Anna and the Apocalypse shoots like a standard teenage movie, so it is more than a little surprising when there are some scenes of violence. But it gets enjoyable violent, and John McPhail, the director does not care about letting his young teenagers use singing as a weapon in the midst of wars. There is one macho jock in particular who has a wild crush on Anna and sings a hydrated baller about how it feels good to kill zombies making his life meaningful which really never was with studying.
It’s safe to say it is pretty absurd that there exists Anna and the Apocalypse or better yet, regarding this specific type of media or entertainment. It doesn’t really have to be a Christmas film and it certainly doesn’t have to be a musical. There is eerie mood in a particular scene where they have to undergo the Christmas tree area where zombies could pop out from anywhere, though nobody actually understands the essence of Christmas here. And the songs were fun, even though they were not of such epically brilliant standards that the film actually needed them.
Anna and the Apocalypse is purely satisfying even in the absence of the trimmings, for it is a great zombie flick with a great cast and a script which gives them something to do. And even her friends are what, No, okay I guess they’re tolerable. screech1 gade1 mania095: smashing personalities Ript: Superman-kids and stupid Scientists trying to get the zombies. Their transition from being such normal kids to the events of 9/11 which snatched away their innocence was believable.
This holiday event film could have easily integrated the scenery of Christmas, even if it was only on the CD Cover of the soundtrack. The idea stimulates memories of festive musicals and TV extravaganzas, however, the majority of the lyrics are not even remotely related in any shape or form to the holiday season. They are wise enough to exclude from its contents anyway all the parameters targeted clearly at making Anna and the Apocalypse the best Christmas horror film ever alongside any of the good movies such as Gremlins or Rare Exports type of movies, but then again, holiday somehow is a non-issue when speaking of this movie’s charms except for Anna’s unusual weapon a giant lollipop.
Anna and the Apocalypse is a film of Christmas, horror, comedy, and musical, where all the ingredients are striking — the cast, the fun gore, and the straightforward ridiculous while enough believable plot. Highly entertaining as it could have become — a holiday movie that can be screened every Christmas — because of the foundation it used to build the firms, it is still a very entertaining holiday treat for fans of cult films.
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