Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Film details

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DirectorJohn McPhail
Year2017
CountryUK
GenreMusical
TypeMovie
Runtime92m
CastElla Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, Ella Jarvis, Calum Cormack

Review

"The playful spirit of "Anna and the Apocalypse" extends to its cinematography, where it swings wildly from colorful spaces like the Christmas show stage to the greyest shade of grim outside during the zombie invasion. Those visual contrasts amp up the already odd coupling of death, destruction, high kicks and high notes. In a saner movie, those two different color palettes may have looked too jarring but it works in the movie to play up the chaos—much of which takes place off-screen or in quick doctored shots of the town. What the movie lacks in budget, it makes up with spunk." - Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0002
HIGHEST#9242025
LOWEST#1,7052021
#861#1,315#1,768TOP 1,00020192020202120232024202520262019 — #1,634 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #1,597 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #1,705 · Outside Top 1,0002023 — #1,207 · Outside Top 1,0002024 — #1,239 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #924 · Top 1,0002026 — #938 · Top 1,000
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED4
HIGHEST#3002025
LOWEST#4642024
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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