Anna und die Apokalypse

Anna and the Apocalypse is a fun film that starts excellent and finishes ok. The early songs are extremely good and worthy of any high end musical out there. The lead Ella Hunt is a star in the making with not only great vocals, but a believable performance as Anna. Whilst she could stand firm in any west end musical, I feel her talents are destined to stay with the silver screen, as she is able to capture beautifully subtle facial expressions which make the character very likeable and real.

The support vocals and acting are very good from some and ok from others, but overall it never lives up to the strength of the opening 30 minutes.

The horror zombie element was very well done and a similar quality to Shaun of the Dead, but I wonder if this could have actually been two separate films. One musical and one comedy horror, as it did both fairly well, but for me they didn't mesh together well enough to sustain for the whole run time.

Not enough cool zombie kills for horror fans and not enough quality songs for musical fans.

Overall though, I enjoyed the film and would recommend it to any fan of either genre.

What a massively disappointing conclusion. I have no idea how they could possibly mess up the second half this badly.

The film starts off perfectly, a perfect commitment to the cheese and the campiness, genuine talent put into the songs, an awful lot of great slapstick, and over the top performances.

And then they forgot what movie they were making. The film commits so much to its zombie film satire that it becomes an actual zombie film. It attempts to be sad, serious, dramatic. They start killing characters that have no reason to die because...?

I am so incredibly disappointed. I laughed so so hard for like 35 minutes and then nothing.

The best part of this film to me is it's ablity to not only combine two completely different genres (horror and musicals) seamlessly. It also shifts the seriousness of the film with out throwing the tone off at all. I also have to say the the songs and score fit perfectly in the film and are incredibly well done. It is some of the most fun I've had watching a film in a long time and hope to see more from these film Makers.

A zombie musical horror comedy. One that is set in Britain and it has a Christmas theme.

As far as musicals go, these one had reasonably good songs and a possible breakout star in Ella Hunt.

Hunt is Anna a college student in Scotland. Her widowed father is overprotective and the headmaster of the college is a swine.

One day on the way to school she encounters zombies. Now Anna and her friends need to keep safe while bashing the zombies brains out.

Anna and the Apocalypse is a genre mash up of musical/zombie horror/teenage high school comedies. It takes a while for the eventual zombie strike to happen although the best strike happens at a scene in a bowling happy.

It is zany and silly enough to be entertaining.

I'd give it a 6.5!!

While not epic, this movie is a lot of fun. If you're a fan of musicals and zombie movies, this one is for you!!