Stars: Sean Kenney, Olivia d’Abo, Bailey Sorrel, Gilles Stricher, Kelli Maroney, Laurene Landon, Eileen Dietz, Shawn C. Phillips, Catherine Lasalle, Lilly Ivring, Crystal J. Huang | Written by Emile Haris | Directed by Russ Emanuel
Obviously inspired by the 2020 pandemic, Staycation is a brilliantly dark-humoured look at that bizarre point in time where the world stood still and people argued about what was the “truth” about the situation on a daily basis. In fact Russ Emanuel’s film is probably the most on-the-nose “retelling” of that time – but with a wonderful skewed, laugh out loud, look at how insane the pandemic was. Only the pandemic is not of the “flu” variety – it’s more a zombie apocalypse, with the viruses victims here turning into “wanderers” (aka zombies).
The film’s central narrative follows Professor Edward Bellows (Sean Kenney), a lead virologist striving to develop a cure for the deadly Nix virus. Opening...
Obviously inspired by the 2020 pandemic, Staycation is a brilliantly dark-humoured look at that bizarre point in time where the world stood still and people argued about what was the “truth” about the situation on a daily basis. In fact Russ Emanuel’s film is probably the most on-the-nose “retelling” of that time – but with a wonderful skewed, laugh out loud, look at how insane the pandemic was. Only the pandemic is not of the “flu” variety – it’s more a zombie apocalypse, with the viruses victims here turning into “wanderers” (aka zombies).
The film’s central narrative follows Professor Edward Bellows (Sean Kenney), a lead virologist striving to develop a cure for the deadly Nix virus. Opening...
- 2/28/2025
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