2005 · horror · comedy · disaster
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Directed by Steve Bendelack1h 27m2005
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
Our read: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal horror · comedy · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- cold
- funny
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