Anna and the Apocalypse: Behind the scenes of the holiday zombie musical

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Written By Chris Well

“Christmas is fast becoming my least favorite ‘C’ word.”

Find out about the making of the holiday musical zombie comedy movie ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE.

’Tis the season! For our list of the funniest zombie movies, we had to include the seasonal zom-com musical, Anna and the Apocalypse.

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—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.

Find Anna and the Apocalypse at Amazon

Watch the video playlist below for 1) the movie trailer, 2) to watch them talk about the songs in the film, and 3) to learn about the video effects that went into making all those wounds, guts, and exploding heads look hilariously real…

Monster Complex playlist: Anna and the Apocalypse (Zombie Comedies)

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Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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