4.547 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestBilly takes over and heartbreaking revelations come out that threaten the town and her family. Meanwhile residents race against the clock to escape Dambury, but the army have other plans in mind.
Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire.
Direction
Wheatley's signature controlled chaos
Practical Effects
Gloriously disgusting practical gore effects
Writing
Brexit-as-zombie-apocalypse metaphor lands
Creator
Ben Wheatley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wheatley explicitly wrote this as Brexit allegory — the 'infected' older generation literally consuming the future of the young.
Channel 4 canceled it after one season despite Wheatley having mapped out three, making its 5.5 rating oddly prophetic for a show about being discarded.
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