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Anna and the Apocalypse: A Christmas Zombie Movie, with Singing
Anna and the Apocalypse is a Christmas musical featuring zombies and high school drama. Yes, you read that right. A movie about the undead, with song and dance. If that premise isn't weird to you, I don't know [what] would be.
I couldn't help but tilt my head when I first saw the synopsis of the film, which hits theaters Friday. Is it like Krampus, or are they going to slay zombies with jazz hands? (If you haven't seen Krampus, it's a 2015 genuinely scary film about a horned beast that punishes naughty children during Christmas time.)
Anna and the Apocalypse, on the other hand, is rather cheesy.
The film, directed by John McPhail and written by Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry, sets the scene in a small town called Little Haven. As Christmas approaches, high school senior Anna and her friends are trying to sort out their own life problems when zombies overrun their neighborhood overnight.
Like many high school movies, this one has bullies, outcasts, supportive parents, a mean principal and, of course, romance. The main characters' feelings play out in dance numbers as the undead threaten their lives.
Sounds like an extended version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @08:44AM (3 children)
Some of my German friends told me once that Krampus is more related to the Saint Nicholas story than Christmas (Although Santa Claus is also based on him). In Germany he is considered Saint Nicholas' helper. In that respect, these movies are also enjoyable:
Rare exports (semi-funny plot twist at the end): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/?ref_=kw_li_tt [imdb.com]
Sint: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1167675/?ref_=kw_li_tt [imdb.com]
(Score: 2) by aim on Friday November 30 2018, @10:05AM (1 child)
Krampus doesn't sound german - Santa Claus' helper is called "Knecht Ruprecht" in Germany. In the Netherlands, it's the "zwarte Piet", in Luxembourg, "den Houséker", in french "le père fouettard". Ah, wikipedia to the help - Krampus is in fact a term from the flemish region/the netherlands. In Switzerland, he's called "Schmutzli".
Note that in the older traditions around here (middle/western Europe), it's Santa Claus (figure derived from the bishop of Myra) that brings presents to the children on 6th of December, not Jesus child or "father christmas" on Christmas.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:40PM
I thought Santa's helper was called Amazon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @08:27PM
Don't you mean Der Kinderlumper [youtube.com]?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @09:21AM (2 children)
Is there Snow in this movie? You did mention romance, and Canada, eh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @10:25AM (1 child)
Canada?, Snow?, sorry, this was filmed mostly in Port Glasgow (aka The Innsmouth of the west of Scotland...Dundee being the east coast equivalent). Snow abounds there, but not the frozen water kind.
Perfect place to film a zombie movie, the locals are 3/4 the way there already..as for the apocalypse...the planners have gotten bored destroying Greenock and have set their sights on fucking the Port up....sorry, improving and modernising it.
A fun area to live and work in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @10:40AM
Forgot to add, remember the shopping mall scenes in Dawn Of The Dead?, that *used* to be the Oak Mall in Greenock on a typical day, now, this honour is held by the Port Glasgow shopping shed complex..all it needs is for 'The Gonk' to be played on a loop over a PA..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 30 2018, @06:02PM (1 child)
And the high school teen angst. Buffy the Vampire Slayer has done that (the musical only had vampires and demons), though not all at the same time. At this point, for me it's "Been There. Done That."
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday November 30 2018, @06:25PM
Agreed. I see it as a cheerful Christmas teen comedy, with zombies. Not sure I'll go to the theater, but I'll watch it on Prime/Netflix/whatever...
Some fun scenes of early "Z Nation" episodes come when the heroes are just having normal discussions about usual non-apocalypse problems, while casually slaughtering zombies at the same time.