
John McPhail’s career has been varied, to say the least. In 2017, the Scottish director burst onto the genre film scene with Anna and the Apocalypse, a Christmas-themed zombie apocalypse musical. It was a hard sell, but found its audience. “I think when you say those things, people go, ‘Oh right, OK, yeah, I'm in.’ Or ‘I'm out, I'm out,’” McPhail tells Inverse.