Anna and the Apocalypse review – all-singing, all-dancing, brain-bashing zomcom

Fun addition to the zombie mashup canon, with secondary-school pupil Anna battling the undead with showtunesThis good-natured Scottish horror movie set in a rundown secondary school adds a potentially hellish new dimension to the zomcom mash-up: song and dance numbers, High School Musical-style.

It just about gets away it, coasting on cheerfully gruesome zombie kills and some decent jokes – in response to the threat of flesh eaters wiping out civilisation, the hashtag #evacselfie goes viral as self-absorbed teenagers post photos of themselves pouting in front of cages of shambling zombies.Related: Spawn of the dead: a history of strange zombie movie mashups

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