APOCALYPSE LOVE Review: Vera VanGuard’s Indie Puppet Sci-Fi Thriller Bolsters With Charm And Delight
What would you do for love even if the world ended?… I guess that’s one key question explored as we follow the latest travails of lovelorn and grieving would-be hero Tom in Apocalypse Love, a show of indie cinematic puppetry by actress and director Vera VanGuard for whom puppetry has been one of her many specialties for some time now. Here, she plies her trade for an hour-long story of romance and action with a hands-on cast (literally) of characters, with just little special effects work to pepper things up. Alas, leading the way is aforementioned hopeless emo romantic Tom, still morning the death of his girlfriend BB a year since then. Desperate to avoid dying alone, Tom exhumes BB’s corpse and puts it in a body bag. Little does he know that he just prevented the possible worst from happening, right when the world falls under attack by weed-smoking […]
