{"id":1315,"date":"2019-02-22T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:30:35","slug":"anna-and-the-apocalypse-from-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Anna and the Apocalypse from Vertigo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Digital HD on 22nd March and on DVD 8th April 2019 from Vertigo Releasing: Described as \u2018Shaun of the Dead meets La La Land\u2019 this, Bafta-nomnated zom-com musical comes from the creator of the internet hit Ryan Gosling Won\u2019t Eat His Cereal<\/em>. When a zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven, Anna and her friends must fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing hellish snowmen, an undead Santa and bloodthirsty elves in a desperate race to reach their loved ones hiding out at their local high school.
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\nRyan McHenry, the brains behind the internet Vine smash hit \u2018Ryan Gosling won\u2019t eat his cereal<\/em>\u2019, won a Bafta for his 2010 short Zombie Musical – but sadly, didn\u2019t get to see it turned into a full-length feature film. After McHenry died in 2015, his friends, including co-writer Alan McDonald, took up the mantle to honour his vision.<\/p>\n

The result is Glee<\/em> soaked in gore, as a school is under siege from zombie hordes, in an unstoppable, smile-inducing hour and half of song, dance, blood, guts and chuckles, with some cheeky nods towards Justin Bieber and (naturally) Ryan Gosling along the way.<\/p>\n

Energetically directed by John McPhail (Where Do We Go From Here?<\/em>), stylishly shot, and featuring terrific \u00a0performances from a young cast of future stars, Anna And The Apocalypse<\/em> is a wonderfully quirky homegrown horror brimming with invention and heart, that Nerdist says is \u2018extraordinarily entertaining\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ella Hunt (soon to be seen in the TV series Dickinson<\/em>) is just wonderful as the titular Anna, and the film also features hugely enjoyable turns from familiar comedy faces Mark Benton (Eddie The Eagle<\/em>) as Anna\u2019s dad and the school janitor, and the legendary Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones<\/em>) as the school principal.<\/p>\n

Anna And The Apocalypse\u00a0<\/em>is singalong zom-com that crosses High School Musical<\/em> with Dawn of the Dead<\/em> and comes up smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Digital HD on 22nd March and on DVD 8th April 2019 from Vertigo Releasing: Described as \u2018Shaun of the Dead meets La La Land\u2019 this, Bafta-nomnated zom-com musical comes from the creator of the internet hit Ryan Gosling Won\u2019t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}