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Teenage Kicks Right Through The Nightmare

WHEN EFFECTS SUPERVISOR turned director Oliver Milburn first envisioned School’s Out Forever as a film, his ambition was to make “Mad Max in the home counties”: a muscular, action-driven post-apocalyptic tale about a bunch of school kids in a world ravaged by an epidemic. Ten years on, he found himself putting the finishing touches to the movie during the Covid-19 enforced lockdown, while fretting about the irony.

“I hope that it’s not seen as piggy-backing,” he tells Red Alert

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