Director: Oliver Milburn
Writer: Oliver Milburn (Screenplay) Scott K Andrews (Book)
Starring: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen, Steve Oram, Russel MacLeod, Jasmine Blackborow, Max Raphael
Plot: A 15-year old flees to his school after an apocalyptic event.
Tagline – Survival just made the syllabus.
Runtime: 1 Hour 45 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: School’s Out Forever starts when Lee (Kennedy) finds himself getting expelled from boarding school after a prank, seeing him return home with his father who sudden starts getting ill.
Learning his blood type is what has kept him alive, his mother tells him to return to school, where he will team up with the other survivors from the school, including his best friend Mac (Fernandez), Mr Bates (Macqueen) and Matron (Blackborow), the survivors must work together to try and survive.
Thoughts on School’s Out Forever
Thoughts – School’s Out Forever brings us an apocalyptic movie that will see a group of boarding school residents needing to work together to defend their school from outsiders who have created a violent battle between humanity. This is a story that will rely on the fresh location, while holding off any sign of zombies, the only threat here, is humans. This does seem to have gotten the inspiration of the endless conversations people could have about where to survive an apocalypse, with the idea of using a boarding school as home base being the most important idea here. The story will show us how the characters will go from best friends to total opposites in an end of the scenario, proving that human nature will take over, leading to the deadlier outcome available for anyone involved. The performances in the film are strong with Oscar Kennedy and Liam Lau Fernandez in the lead pairing showing the differences they went through, while most of the younger actors show the pure terror they are going through. This is one of the more entertaining apocalypse movies, proving to us that human nature will destroy most things.
Final Thoughts – School’s Out Forever is a fun end of the world creation, that could easily continue to grow the world created.