A talking hanky, alien invasion – is this the most silly, joyful horror film of all time?

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Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun created the low-budget Hanky Panky with a camera won in a competition and a bunch of movie business pals, including Seth Green.

It’s how so many chilling tales begin. A group of friends trek into the remote snowy wilderness, gathering together in a cabin, cut off from civilisation. It seems like a great idea, but then, inevitably … they make a movie., an ultra-low budget comedy-horror currently on Apple TV+.

“So we have what we need to make a movie, what movie should we make? And I was like, let’s do a feature version of our silliest short.”, and revolved around – there’s just no other way of putting this – a sentient talking handkerchief. So now the title makes sense – though in the Pankyverse “making sense” is a very relative concept.

So that’s the plot, and it’s the kind of plot that can either turn into wild comedic brilliance or come out as the worst thing you ever saw. Thankfully, due to the script and direction by Roth and Haun, and a cast who without exception hurl themselves into the insanity with incredibly silly gusto, the former was the result.

“The whole spirit of the thing was, look, we know this is silly,” says Roth. “It’s fundamentally dumb. But what if we just, like, bear with me, what if we committed 100 per cent to trying to make the best film we could with just these few things – a talking napkin, with this cabin, with our friends, with no money … what if we didn’t half-arse it any point? Let’s just see if we can pull it off. And my feeling from the very beginning was, we should be able to because it’ll be funny.

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