British filmmaker Ben Wheatley’s new post-apocalyptic seeming series follows a gang of flesh-eating elders who pray on the young, but despite being influenced by iconic zombie movies, the filmmaker says there are actually no zombies in the show at all.
"It’s got the DNA of classic zombie stuff like Dawn of the Dead, but it’s also got the DNA of disaster movies of the 70s," Wheatley tells Total Film in our final issue out on Thursday, October 10, which features Gladiator 2 on the cover. But Wheatley, best known for helming psychological horror Kill List, is quick to point out that there aren’t actual zombies to be found in the show. "No one’s dead," he adds, "So it’s more like Romero’s The Crazies."
