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Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) is a British zombie musical directed by John McPhail — watch online on iFILM. It's Christmas in the Scottish town of Little Haven, and a zombie outbreak has turned the local streets into a battlefield. Anna and her friends have to fight their way to school. While singing.
The premise sounds like a joke, but the film plays it straight enough to earn genuine emotional weight. Ella Hunt carries the lead with enough specificity to make Anna feel real rather than archetypal — a teenager who'd already decided to leave town before the dead started walking. The musical numbers are well-constructed and range from cheerful carnage to something closer to grief. It's a tonal tightrope, and McPhail mostly keeps his balance.
Shot on a modest budget in Scotland, the film found its audience at genre festivals before building a word-of-mouth following. A rare film that commits fully to its own strange logic. Stream Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) online on iFILM.
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