Post-Apocalyptic Job Centre - Short Film - 2019

[@Ardvale]

A little note of editing trickery; When Tisha scowls at 1:35, that is actually two shots mixed together, the head is separate from the torso!

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

That's......not zombielike at all. I mean unemployable.....

[@projectilevomitaka.ther.o.1143]

Whoa👍! Now I’m catching a couple more cool tricks. Thanks! This is a really good film.

[@tibsie]

I thought this was supposed to be post-apocalyptic. This is just a normal day at the job centre.

[@lewisford7438]

Preach

[@Rainyman63]

American comedy: people behaving bizarrely in a normal situation. British comedy: people behaving normal in a bizarre situation.

[@pikeyboots738]

being honest, i was expecting a crazy dramatic zombie killing scene but him running away is probably funnier

[@vinikk77]

Dramatic zombie killing hunter scare amazing scene

[@lizarding2078]

The expressions here are just excellent...

[@CthulhuOnCam]

Its nice to see after the apocalypse they where able to improve the job centre experience

[@davewilson4058]

That interviewer has obviously been trained in the real World. She had the perfect level of false sympathy and bureaucratic deafness to all explanations and excuses. She could go to the top in any Government Social Working establishment. In fact she was, to quote Mary Poppins, "Practically perfect in every way." This film was a satirical little gem. It appealed to my very sick sense of humour at all levels. Full marks to the actor's and crew.

[@shirleyhannel5795]

Sad day for Freedom something so funny and stupid is really the truth. This video is very well done and I hope people get it if not the joke is on them

[@tsommers3284]

Agreed!!! I have already watched it a couple of times!!

[@k.w.1459]

“Sit tight for two weeks.” Annnd here we are. Life imitates art.

[@Spex84]

That actor's eyes capture how I'm feeling these days. I thought he was going to slide over the desk and take over her job! Thanks for the comedic relief :)

[@MidgetandFriends]

Incase you have never had to go to the jobcentre before, this is surprisingly accurate

[@Ardvale]

Midget and FriendsTM it was based on real experience so we are glad that came across

[@MidgetandFriends]

@@Ardvale Keep up the good work :), was a great watch

[@jonstfrancis]

I thought this was going to be Post-Apocalyptic, not real life on Universal Credit.

[@TheFirstCalled.60.A.D]

My first job centre appointment after Coronavirus

[@glitchlife4639]

Fun Fact, this entire video was shot in Sheffield and no props or scenery alterations were used.

[@nigelsheppard625]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cyberash3000]

dont be daft. the people look to normal to be from yorkshire

[@1220b]

Nice comment.

[@kitreadsbooks7718]

wow we love a documentary of 2020 britain

[@pakde8002]

Really? So you have Trump supporters there as well? Sorry about that.

[@kitreadsbooks7718]

@@pakde8002 I mean, I'm sure we do but we have our own bunch of conservatives too

[@littlemrpinkness295]

@@kitreadsbooks7718 So how is Boris working out?

[@kitreadsbooks7718]

@@littlemrpinkness295 just bloody brilliant :(

[@Ardvale]

The idea and script was in development for over 2 years. It's weird how relevant it remained for all this time.

[@fr-tigerfangs7039]

Brilliant! As always, the Brits shine their legendary stiff upper lip humor onto the rest of the world, and we're glad for it. We need it! Loved every bit of it!! Thx.

[@naynaynay324]

Yes, bureaucracy is one of the last things to die. Well done.

[@morrismckinnon6047]

I remember having to "sign on" at the job centre, this is pretty much what it's like.

[@autonomouspublishingincorp8241]

Why did he leave at the end? A job just opened up at the unemployment office and he was the first one there who could replace her!

[@nitipriyasingh1387]

Coz she put a stamp of suspended before dying

[@autonomouspublishingincorp8241]

So?

[@rxonmymind8362]

Rip up the suspended paper nobody would be wiser.

[@marystar6021]

I just loved this actor with how he portayed the character's expressions and actions, especially in how he took off like a bat out of Hell😅🤣!

[@jeffcop1]

Brilliant, well done. I thought I was all zombied out. This was a great twist on the genre.

[@smoog]

This obviously fell through a wormhole from 2021.

[@shlamimk4664]

That was actually quite clever. The tension between the work coach and the "customer" is really well portrayed. I've often felt a certain degree of resentment accross the desk when signing on. They hate their jobs and they envy the person they're supposed to be helping out, because they themselves are often in such hopeless situations. It's always an emotionally taxing interaction.

[@hiwall4883]

Exactly right, I feel sorry for them sometimes, at least we get to go home, they don't.

[@shlamimk4664]

@@hiwall4883 Hey, how good is it not having to go for appointments with the lock down?

[@hiwall4883]

@@shlamimk4664 I wish! I've got an appointment on Monday 😠 Shows how much they care about their staff safety hey.

[@shlamimk4664]

@@hiwall4883 No shit! That's weird. I just checked gov.uk. Says all non urgent appointments are cancelled. Oh well. Stay safe out there! Wherever you are...

[@hiwall4883]

@@shlamimk4664 Thanks, I'm in Australia, they are very strict here. We can request phone appointments if we are not feeling well.

[@FixFilmsLtd]

Brilliant short comedy horror! I used to work in the Department of Social Security and this film gets the horror and absurdity just perfectly.

[@lewisford7438]

Been unemployed for a hot minute, this was hecka triggering Not really, but yeah, you got the feel of hostile hospitality down pat

[@RoryPattonDreamerOfDunsidhe]

I had to watch several times before I realised it wasn't a documentary about life in Covid-19 Britain. I thought so little has changed.

[@Zamolxes77]

Relevant film in current conditions !

[@speleokeir]

Completely unrealistic - The DWP were nothing like this compassionate when they sanctioned me. I was 10 minutes late (The maximum is 8 mins). Had to wait for 1.5 hours to be interrogated as to why I was late. I explained my boiler had broken down and I'd been without heat or hot water for 3 days whilst the heating engineer had been waiting for a part. He'd phoned that morning to say it had come in and he'd be round later so I'd had to stay in until he arrived and he'd been an hour late. They asked why I hadn't phoned in and I explained I'd tried 6 times but just got a constant engaged tone. Apparently this wasn't good enough as other people had managed to get through. What kind of logic is that? So I was sanctioned two weeks job seekers allowance because they didn't have enough people manning their phone lines at a time when I'd just had to pay £200 for boiler repairs. I did ask if I could get any help with the costs from emergency funds but of course they'd all been used up long ago. N.B. I don't really blame the DWP staff member as on previous visits two members of staff had told me they were given sanctioning targets each week and a third actually showed me an official memo confirming this. At the time they'd also been told that some of them would be made redundant and meeting sanctioning targets would be part of the criteria as to which of them would be laid off. All part of a caring Tory society.

[@jeremyripton]

You say you dont blame the DHS staff for their actions....but if tbey didnt comply this wouldn't happen...it just gives self important cunts a sense of worth....still...Corona virus might just get a few twats ....lets hope so....they are disgusting.

[@sociocomm724]

This...this reeks of old BBC comedy so much! This is perfect! It's like the zombie apocalypse sketch Monty Python's Flycing Circus never did! Even the exaggeratedly pleasant head bobbing, smiling and just all around thick, juicy, moist awkwardness! This will never not be in my Favorites to watch again and again and again! Well done Last Minute Productions! Well done!

[@friedliebend]

I don't see any major differences with my current situation. Are you sure this is post-apocaplytic film?

[@aikrichter5403]

it is. the apocalypse has already happened. You are just behind with ne News.Probably because of bad Internetconnection. netzausbau,you know.

[@thebigdog2295]

Last Minute Productions needs to make a full length movie like this, this is the best zombie film I've ever seen, and I've been watching since I was about 6 years old. That's back when dirt was invented, this is better than anything George A. Romero made may he R.I.P., even better than Sean of the Dead, and I couldn't stop laughing when I watched that. Got to give 10 of 10 + 1.😀😆😂🤣😭

[@gordonhotchkiss646]

I thought this was supposed to be a post apocalyptic film. The Job centre scenes just seem like a normal every day appointment at the job centre.

[@allisond.46]

Um, did you miss the “woman turns into zombie” part?

[@RedPillRachel]

@@allisond.46 no they probably didn't miss that bit, accurate lol

[@rsrt6910]

@@allisond.46 I thought they were already zomb... er... unemployables to begin with.

[@theironmuttonchops5398]

Seems like a spiritual successor to Shawn of the Dead, great job!

[@neil900uk]

This should be a TV series :)

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

The actress did a great job. A bureaucrat to the last.... This should be getting millions of views. It's so timely. Update: Actually, too close to home.... Update Update: It's here. The Omicron Variant. Something that sounds like a bad 1950's sci-fi film about a deadly virus, is real.

[@ArnovanZelst]

Funny and also a bit depressing, my fav!

[@dinahfeng9929]

I would love to see this turning into a movie! Great job! Great acting, great scene, great editing, great props. Just nailed at everything!!!

[@RedPillRachel]

This seems horribly well timed... I wasnt scared until I saw this!

[@RedPillRachel]

@Smileyrie James obviously zombies are a metaphor for starving people who will eat anything, including you! Thanks for trying to put a positive spin on current events, though!

[@maikutsukino4743]

Definitely similar to employment agencies in my area. The feeling you're better off dead prevails.

[@lunarose9]

Had benefits massively sanctioned after missing an appointment for a funeral - I called ahead days before. This was depressingly accurate.

[@Ardvale]

Same situation. A mix up with the appointment date and that was that.

[@TurulHEMA]

I think we all know why this video is being recommended in 2020. . .

[@TemPestKratos]

Feels so good to laugh 😊😊 before we experience the real zombie apocalypse 2020

[@5thhorseman559]

Now this needs to be a series!

[@thepatrioticjandal6851]

sooo this is how the world will look in April

[@countteddy]

no way ........its fine ..april?........may more like , be sensible...lol

[@bobguy3939]

Yes, this is an accurate portrayal of the benefits system. No zombies needed.

[@vids4791]

The 'zombies' are the drone-like citizens waiting in endless lines for benefits. That's my take anyway. 😜

[@alfmac7886]

Hmmm I was thinking of the DMV, guess we all see what we want to see..

[@oldegrunt5735]

figures that when civilization falls apart, bureaucracies will still exist and likely thrive

[@bonniewolf1]

I loved that the same crowd was waiting for him at the end 🤣

[@OuiSuzette]

I love this character! I want to see more! Great film!

[@narinderdhanjal221]

Absolutely brilliant on every level - acerbic, witty and laugh out loud hilarious with a dose of twisted reality thrown in for good measure in a macabre way. Forget The Walking Dead - it’s The Walking Unemployable! Fantastic work guys and cheers! 👍😈🧟‍♀️⭐️

[@Shkunk1]

This is like every job agency I've ever been to.

[@gordonhotchkiss646]

I just made a similar comment

[@arteblack13]

I loved that she was still a bureaucrat moments after her demise.

[@MrYfrank14]

it is very hard to tell a dead bureaucrat from a living one.

[@MrYfrank14]

it is very hard to tell a dead bureaucrat from a living one.

[@toastwelldunne]

Daft enough to be funny, realistic enough to be worrying. Thanks for the upload. 👍

[@InayetHadi]

They predicted the future quite quick 2020

[@meldarnell4467]

This was hilarious, engrossing and finely acted! Absolutely loved it...wanted a full length film!

[@MichaelSmith-jb5md]

This really needs to be made into a movie so I can add it to my Zombie movie collection.

[@alking9022]

Fantastic acting, Perfect scripting, Brilliant Film, Thanks YT algorithm

[@dickersondesigns3596]

This was great! A bit disturbing right now though, the parallel to our current pandemic, as well as the dysfunction of the unemployment agencies, is resoundingly significant...

[@AnnaPxx]

Tell me about it, I wanted to cry as he put on the plastic mask :-(

[@xiqueira]

The filmmaker was obviously time traveling into the future for this documentary when they posted it Jan 2020.

[@experiment54]

Well cool!!! All of it. The idea. The acting. The filming. Editing. All of it 👍

[@eleanorhinton5816]

I watched it for third time laffing its perfect the background the actors priceless!

[@rextucker3184]

Excellent acting skills by both the interviewer and the interviewee.

[@gregdark9980]

Funny to have this come up in my recommendations ... now during 2020 pandemic

[@slimpikin82]

I actually wouldn't mind seeing more of this, like a web series or something

[@JinKee]

Man this sure hits differently now.

[@Trypyyyy]

Tell me about it!

[@hiwall4883]

Yes doesn't it, before we would have laughed, now it all seems too real.

[@Ardvale]

Thank you all so much for the fantastic comments! With the shut down of social gatherings and screenings, it would be an awesome achievement to hit 50k views!

[@MrPink250]

You will. It was awesome !!! Hahahha

[@geckofeet]

No worries. Nothing else to do except pornhub.

[@Ardvale]

@@MrPink250 You were right and then some!

[@suzanneedmonds1566]

Really funny, great concept. Loved it when Toby is reminded to use the respectibly correct term of "unemployable" instead of zombie. Immensely enjoyed this from start to finish. Thank you.

[@davidforbes3855]

Absolutely a winner! Best sc-fi comedy I've seen lately! Kudos to both protagonists, and I hope the writer(s) publish more!.

[@Ardvale]

Working on it!

[@alisonmary1443]

Reminiscent of recent job centre interviews, so after an apocalypse it business as usual!

[@Jade-xp5yp]

Literally 2 months later: This film is a reality

[@razadelasand899]

I needed this. I've been so depressed i thought today was really going to finally push me over the edge. And then you, you perfect little gem, popped up in my recs. Thank you.

[@Ardvale]

So glad it cheered you up! Stay safe and things will get better :)

[@TheArtofTravel]

Take care. A lot of people are going through what you are going through. A little laughter makes the day brighter :)

[@exitzerozombie6408]

Awesome. Sharing to my zombie enthusiast network. Both actors were great, loved her calm demeanor against his sense of desperation. Could see this being a Shaun of the Dead spin-off.

[@knightowl3577]

So things stay pretty much the same in the future UK then.

[@Ardvale]

The original idea was 4 years old before the final film, so more like past, present and future.

[@duikmans]

Just goes to show that you don't need a lot of fancy CGI to make a great short movie... oh, and a hilarious one too!

[@btnlstrsort200]

So this is how things will look in August.

[@ChrisPage68]

June.

[@demodave6054]

Even during the apocalypse the bureaucracy still some how survived

[@K3Flyguy]

When does the post part start. All I seen was a normal day at the office.

[@GreatSmithanon]

This doesn't seem any different than most job centers. They're pretty much useless with few exceptions.

[@paulziolo9241]

Inside - peace, quiet, food, booze & movies. Outside - corona, chaos & zombies. I complain not.....

[@averongodoffire8098]

Could you make a series around the live of a zombie apocalypse survivor that’d be awesome as heLl

[@Ardvale]

Working on it at the moment!

[@averongodoffire8098]

Last Minute Productions Oh wow that’s awesome Take your time Don’t crush your eggs trying to pile them

[@merrenroberts8494]

You guys were on the money this is the current reality

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

"You said their all dead!" *WHACK* "You said their ALL DEAD!!" *THWACK* 😂🤣😂🤣

[@lizgonzalez7652]

This was freaking awesome, hilarious and great acting!! Omg I loved it!

[@AnnaPxx]

That's brilliant! So British and very carefully crafted, more of this please. Has anyone noticed the notice on the wall @00:14... "even in the event of a zombie post-apocalypse we take our Health & Safety duties very seriously"

[@AnnaPxx]

@@Ardvale Thanks, just been, awesome! Love the photos of the actors and crew. And The Daily News cover, wow! "Farmer finds man in paddock "tasting" live cow...", "Cracking jokes like there's no tomorrow: our readers send in their best apocalypse jokes!" I'm dead 😆👏😆👍

[@firstnamelastname7783]

"A post apocalyptic job center" Job centers in times of corona: Can't relate

[@rabidcougar6465]

All those "Unemployables" could have been avoided if they had only worn their masks and practiced social distancing.....

[@4umy]

truth!!!!!

[@wilhelmernst7660]

.......but they thought it was a government conspiracy.

[@theonesillyboy]

P45 toxin deployed!! hahahahaha - very enjoyable to watch. Well done! .... and perfect timing ...

[@weirdTedE91]

My goodness Toby's eyes are hypnotic! And I could totally see Tisha being played by Jessica Hynes

[@Fuzzthefurr]

"I'm afraid we're sanctioning you, as you haven't filled the quota for applications." "How am I meant to apply to 7 new job openings every week when the majority of business owners are dead?" "Yeah, times are tough. You should have tried harder though."

[@ArmouryTerrain]

Bureaucracy running Mad! This is one of the best Zombie short films I have seen in a long time.

[@texasfossilguy]

I was waiting for the bit about an apocalypse but it never came. Isnt this literally a documentary on 2020 today?

[@heyy_itss_jesse6917]

love the capitalist take on the apocalypse, even after a zombie outbreak people are being valued by their ability to work

[@shinigamidragoon]

Wow.... suddenly super relevant

[@CanadienAtheist]

Just watched this the day after being layed off from work because of the corona virus. I am sure I will be back to work soon...

[@Ardvale]

So sorry to hear that, I really hope things turn around soon.

[@i8kons]

Mass graves digging is a job... make sure they are all dead though

[@du5707]

@@Ardvale so weird, sounds like something the female interviewer would say.

[@sneakerphotgrapher]

I love the Brits as they carry on lolol 'no need to feel alarmed'

[@thomascollins4325]

The actor and actress were both great!!! Really liked the actress!!! 😍😍😍😍

[@jeffmiller1159]

Thank you. This was hilarious.... Thank you for reapplying....

[@jasondomingo5313]

This is strikingly similar to my last job interview. It was so toxic! This short film deserves a sequel.

[@Ardvale]

All we'll have to do is head into London and whip my phone camera out. Boom, filmmaking on a budget :D

[@patrickmccafferty984]

Now that was funny. One of the best shorts I have seen. Great acting. Unfortunately the DWP already behave like that.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338]

youtube likes to keep us comfy with all of these great video recomendations

[@edbouhl3100]

Loved “... you said they were dead!”

[@patrickmickey]

Clever and imaginative film making.