The Lady's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse (2022)
Starring Iris Warren
Produced by Isabella Kerrigan
Mid-century housewife Wilma Davis invites us into her living room and walks us through her top tier tips to surviving the end of days with elegance and womanly charm.
ABOUT
Mid century housewife, Wilma Davis provides an infomercial directed toward wives and mothers on how to survive the end of days as an elegant woman - all the while her own zombification creeps in and her days as a human draw to a close.
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The short is intended to satirise traditional gender roles through the horror comedy genre. Through comedy the short discusses the expectations placed on women to perform femininity even among circumstances within which it is entirely impractical. Wilma is a character so hellbent on enforcing performed femininity both onto the viewer and onto herself that she literally loses her soul; a hyperbolic allegory for the very real effect of losing one's individual persona and sense of self expression to rigid gender roles.
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