{"id":118961,"date":"2021-04-12T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=118961"},"modified":"2021-04-13T05:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:21:53","slug":"schools-out-forever-review-shaun-of-the-dead-meets-lord-of-the-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/dvd-and-bluray\/schools-out-forever-review-shaun-of-the-dead-meets-lord-of-the-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"School’s Out Forever Review: Shaun Of The Dead Meets Lord Of The Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Lee Keegan (Oscar Kennedy) thinks the world is over when he\u2019s expelled from St. Mark’s School for Boys, after pulling a practical joke involving a locker cabinet. However, little does he know the world really is over when no sooner does he get home than a mysterious virus spreads across the country, decimating the majority of the population, including his dad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alone and afraid, he decides to head back to the remote boarding school to stay safe. When he gets there he finds a few pupils (including best friend Sean played by Liam Lau Fernandez) still there and trying to survive. However, no-one really is safe in this new world and the school soon gets targeted by the local parish council who have formed a militia and is imposing martial law (lead by a local parish council leader\/post-apocalyptic dictator played by <\/span>Samantha Bond)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

School\u2019s Out Forever<\/i><\/b> feels like a mixture of <\/span>Shaun of the Dead <\/i><\/b>and <\/span>Lord of the Flies<\/i><\/b>. As the dire situation settles in on the group of boys (and the hangovers wear off), the power play between them soon begins, culminating in a night of mayhem and bloodshed (and that\u2019s not even taking into account the outside threat!).<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast is great. Kennedy holds the film well as the cheeky but ultimate good guy Lee and Fernandez is sinisterly smug as the best friend-turned-warlord Sean. The adults aren\u2019t letting the teenager have all the fun either; Samantha Bond is having a wonderful time weidling farmer\u2019s guns and causing havoc, while Anthony Head is perfect as the pompous headmaster in a short but memorable role.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not quite as funny as <\/span>Shaun<\/i><\/b> or as devastating as <\/span>Lord<\/i><\/b>, <\/span>School\u2019s Out Forever<\/i><\/b> lives in a strange but likable middling ground that is masterfully kept throughout, never delving into overly gory horror or overly dumb comedy. This results in a film that may seem fairly by-the-numbers but will still surprise you throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n

School\u2019s Out Forever is available to own on DVD & Blu-Ray<\/a> from 12 April. Read our interview with writer and director Oliver Milburn here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world as we know it is over in Oliver Milburn’s School’s Out Forever after a virus wipes most of the population…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":118183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[7075],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SOF.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}