Home Show Anna And The Apocalypse

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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and nothing says the holiday season like zombies. But I'm not alone for this particular episode, by the way, because this is a home show. This is number 450.

We have done 450 home shows. Add to that the 400, and let me give the actual number for you, 468 weekly shows. We're over 900 of these things, kids, and we do it for you, and we thank you for being here with us.

But I'm not alone for this episode, joining me across the desk in the co-host chair, in this particular episode, is the lady of the house, and I kind of know I think where this is going to go for her, because she's already got the soundtrack. She is General, welcome friend. Hello, everyone.

Rounding out the days is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who I have a challenge for. You may know him as Fondango, or Igbunu, but his mom and even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford. Challenge.

The challenge is, without looking at your phone, can you spell Apocalypse? APOCKYPSE. So close.

So close. Actually, I'm trying to think about it. If you had taken out the K, I don't.

You would have been there. I did that purpose. I didn't.

I didn't. I didn't. I didn't.

I didn't. I didn't. I didn't.

Whatever we do, one of these, it is to review something, and this particular episode is no different. This is so fresh, they literally came. I was not able to go to this screen, so I'm going to listen to them talk about it.

But literally, they came from the screening to the studio, because we are going to talk about director John McPhales, Anna, and the Apocalypse. For the whole madness. Yes, sir.

I think one of our best friends, Brad, and everybody at FontsPR for the invite, we love our vendors. They let us see movies ahead of time so we can tell you guys about them, and you can make the proper decisions for your entertainment dollar. So this is an interesting case study.

I'm kind of bummed I missed this screen, because I actually did want to see this film, but it was just not in the cards. It wasn't, it didn't fit my schedule today. Dallas traffic.

So, well, Dallas traffic, and you know, this was a five o'clock screening, I don't got to work till four, the logistics would not have worked out. This was filmed in Scotland, okay, and I'm going to give you the official imDib description. A zombie Apocalypse threatens the sleepy little town of Little Haven at Christmas, because you do.

Forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other. Now, I actually saw a headline today that described this as Sean of the Dead meets Lala land.

And I was saying. I was saying Sean of the Dead meets high school musical. That's what I said after the thing in a lobby, literally.

So Ella Hunt plays the title character. You would know her, she's done, oh, she was in that cold feet that was on for a very short time, a couple of years ago. Let's see.

She was in Les Mis, she was ensemble turning woman, not sure what that does for you. So fell relative newcomer, Hunter apparently knows who she is. That's good to know.

Hunter the battle cat. So let's get into this, because this just, I mean, are these original songs, are these covers? What are we doing here?

I believe they're originals. Yeah, I think so. There's one that I may have heard before, but the rest of them appear to be done for the movie.

Okay, our 37 doesn't seem real long. It's, and that was a good length on it. Okay.

You would say it's too long. Fair enough? No.

It was one of those that it's like, it has movement moments where it really moves along. And then there's a section, and it's kind of like, it kind of slows down, and it's like, was that really necessary or not? I don't know.

So you say, was that too a little slow for you? No, it was shorter segments than that. Let me say that normally, there's three acts in a story.

Right. And I'm saying like within act one, act two, act three, there were sections within. Oh, okay.

Yeah. So it wasn't necessarily the culprit of a certain section, it just, was it one of these run, run, run kind of situations? Yeah.

Okay. And then it did flow, but there were some points where you're like, you've been moving and grooving along. And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, we're going to pause for a second, get our heart rate back down.

And now we're going to go off again. Okay. Fair enough.

I thought the first 20, I looked at my watch specifically on my phone and kept it low, you know. I was behind him and I didn't see it, so. Yeah.

We're going to get you a watch. But first 25 minutes. Yeah.

Really? It was slow. So the first third of it was not good for you?

No. No. It was just, we're in school.

We're in school. Yeah. It's like in a small English town or a great Britain town.

Little havens. Yeah. It's got a town.

It's got a city. It's got a city's car. Well, it's still part of great Britain.

So, that's still correct. Fair enough. Fair enough.

Right. It's part of the empire. Okay.

So, you're good. It's still, I try to say you. No, you're good, you're good.

You're good. You're speaking. English British.

You know. But the first 20 minutes there in school. I weren't school.

We got a Christmas play coming up. That's all it. couple songs and that's all the first couple songs.

I'm like, I didn't know this was going to be high school musical part two or part five or part six. I don't even know where we're at that franchise. I hate that for using high school music going to franchise.

No, the plot is a really, really, really simplistic. I mean, they're in this small English town. Christmas is coming up.

They have the little gala next day. The pocklet sits and goes full-born. The kids are stuck at the, you know, meet at the, uh, big places.

Yeah, they meet up at the, where they work at the, uh, bowling alley and then they go to the school to get a meet up with the parents and try to go from there. That's the whole plot when it comes down to it. Simplistically.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's the typical plot for a zombie movie. But here's a thing. I watched this and really, I was thinking this before you even said the headline.

This reminds me of Shana the Dead meets high school musical, but it failed in the Shana the Dead part. I thought. Let's talk about that for a minute.

It made me personally. I mean, you might have a different, that's fine. You guys know how I feel about scary movies.

Yeah. No. I, I love scary movies.

I don't do scary movies. How does this work? Because I like, like, I like Shana the Dead.

Shana was fun. Yeah. Would I be okay with this film from that?

It does get graphic even more graphic than Shana the Dead, I would say. It's got the gore, but I mean, it's the, it's the campy but it's not. I'm more worried about jump scares and things like that.

Not really. There's no there's, it's, it's, they try to make the comedy thing like Shana the Dead. Okay.

That's, that's why I saw it. Cause I love zombie movies. I can go down to World War Z, Shana the Dead, night of the living dead.

Enjoyed the zombie land very much. Zombie land. Yeah.

Let's forget sequel. I think they tried to do. Let's do another twist of a zombie movie with high school musical to do something different.

And I don't think it worked out as much because I thought this remind me more of a rip off of Shana the Dead. Like, for instance, this, you might want to do more to support my, uh, minor spoiler. Hold on.

I gotta, get it warm about that. So I can get there. And three, two, one.

Okay. There's that scene in Shana the Dead where he wakes up, goes to the convenience store by the can of soda and boxback and doesn't even notice that that apocalypse is hit, right? There enough.

They kind of do the same thing. It's almost, it's just, she has earphones on. I'm like, that's a rip off of Shana the Dead right there.

It's the same thing, but they add a song. It wasn't as funny as Shana the Dead. There was some moments where I laughed.

I really did laugh. And I love zombie movies. I love comedies.

Do you think just, I think they tried doing something different and it did, but do you think they were trying to gear this towards a, I mean, granted, this is where it are. Yeah. But maybe an audience that may not have no Shana the Dead as well.

Possibly. And see, I didn't see it as a rip off of. I liked the twist that they did.

And, you know, like with his spoiler one, it was very accurate for the age of the cast. It fit that that would be realistic for them. What was there a lot of, you have it a lot.

Is he over the lot? What did you see? It wasn't really a lot.

It's he having a laugh. It wasn't really a money Python-esque thing, but I really enjoyed it for what it was, but I went in knowing it was going to be along the vein of a Shana the Dead type zombie movie. Okay.

But I enjoyed, I don't think you would have a problem with it. I don't think anybody who has issues with scary. Okay, yeah, there's the scene where, okay, it is zombies.

You got to assume people are getting eaten. And, and there's always intestines that show up, but it wasn't, I didn't get sick to my stomach. I wasn't bothered by it.

It was fake enough. Okay. Okay.

This is not Friday 13th or Halloween. Yeah, okay. That's fine.

You, you could go in and be okay. I'm saying that because I know you really well. But let me ask this.

Okay. I want to talk about the music a little bit too. Was it a little too much weird in high school and we're killing zombies?

Or was it actually, I know, like I said, Jen's already downloaded the soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Did that detractor add to that aspect of it?

Because this is, I mean, this is a strange combination of genre for me. I kind of liked the twist. And I like the songs.

They, there were some of the songs that added to it. Okay. There were some that were just, there was one that was in there that Don and I both agree that we liked the song.

Yeah. And it was comical. It had nothing to do with the zombies.

It was a cute tongue-in-cheek moment. Very much what a high schooler would do and enjoyed the way they set it up. And I liked the way that they did it all.

And I liked the ones that they picked and I liked the people that had singing it. The singing voices were strong. All right.

Don, talk to me. But the U.S. is they have the song.

We're the zombie and we're can they have that like two or three. There's one, but, but the boy, but does it's the best zombie kill. But I'm, you know, but does it fit for what they're trying to do.

Yes. But I don't think it were because if you're killing zombies, you're not going to be the best zombie. I got smell of a face or a slashing whack whack whack a whack a do yay.

You know, there was like, like we, she just said there was one thing at the Christmas Gala one song and I was rolling on it. I loved it. It was just a, you know, breath fresh air with that.

But for me, it's just as a zombie fan, I know what they're trying to do and it just kind of fell short for me in that aspect. I appreciate the effort. I liked it.

They're being inventive. Let's add about, you know, zombies to high school musical and have some fun. But it was just as a zombie fan, oh, for me.

All right. Anything else you want to talk about for me to the final analysis? I think we've covered most of it without giving away the movie.

All right. Let's get to it. With the final analysis, here's how it works.

I'm going to ask these guys two questions, up to two questions. Anyway, question number one is, would they see this film again? If the answer's no, then we're done here.

But if the answer's yes, the follow up question is going to be how far they'd be willing to go to see it again. From the best of the best of the worst, the best here's how it rolls. Full price of the theater down to a twilight showing down to a matinee showing down to early morning on a weekend, down to second one at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving the house to get it from the red box, down to streaming it on the Netflix, down to just watching it on cable.

General ladies first, would you see Anna and the apocalypse again? Yes. All right.

Well, how far you want to go to do it? I'd probably do a twilight or matinee, and I will be purchasing it and watching it every year. So you're right there on the edge.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to watch it every year. Christmas now. It's my Christmas movie.

Oh, well, I mean, technically it is. It works. Don, would you see Anna and the apocalypse again?

Yeah. How far you willing to go? I'm going to do the streaming on Netflix up to the red box in there.

Oh, some are there. I will say there's like, I was going to say something that, yes, this is going to be a Christmas movie. And some people are kind of, may put this as a Christmas tradition, which is great, but don't show it at the church.

No, I don't think you're going to have that problem, but I appreciate you performing this. You're going to do this as a Christmas film. I put it with like Christmas vacation and all those in Christmas story.

Make sure you got the right crowd. Yeah, make sure you get the right crowd. Yeah, this one.

It is John McPhale and Anna and the apocalypse. For us, whole madness. Yes, we got to thank our great, great friend, Brad and everybody at FontsPR.

We love our vendors. They take care of us and let us do cool stuff. And I just want to take a moment as we wrap this up.

Again, this is our 450th show. I guess you call these many episodes where we've been reviewing things and I just, I want to let that sit in for a minute. We've done this 450 times.

Like, I can't. The first one of these we did was the 16th of June, 2013. And this was even before we had vendors was when we did Man of Steel.

And the fact that we've been doing this now, I guess by technical definition, five and a half years, before even, you know, you include the pre-vendor time. Yeah, we're just thankful. We're thankful that we have people that will listen.

I'm thankful that I've got a crew that is so diverse, that we can talk about film. We don't always have to agree. But I think that's what makes this work.

And I want to thank all of our vendors. I want to thank all of our friends in the press, people like the movie brothers, like Gotti and everybody over in C like film, Marcus over at that nerd show. We love our friends.

We love our vendors and we love you guys. So we'll keep doing this as long as you keep listening. I mean, who thought when we I saw and finished song or we saw the grandmaster that yeah, that we still be doing that for people who still want us to do this.

That's the weird thing. Yeah. Yeah.

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