Who knew murder could be so fun?
Zara and Erika: A Tale of Annabelle is a black romantic shock sex comedy-thriller film based on Zara And Erika. It was released on December 22, 2021 after a year of production. The movie follows Zara & Erika as they try to stop a killing spree caused by their evil sister Annabelle, who has also dragged Shinji into it. Throughout the film, they travel through different cities, times, and alternate universes to accomplish their goal, while dealing with their eclectic friends along the way. The film was rated NC-17 mainly due to the high amount of violence and sexual content, which surpasses the original series.
This film provides examples of:
- '80s Hair: In the Plotagon world, the boy in the library who flirts with Zara has a mullet.
- Animated Shock Comedy: The film takes it a bit further than the show, with a higher body count, more dark humor, stronger racial jokes, and even incest.
- Art Shift: The sequences in different time spans and universes are made with Plotagon and Moviestorm rather than Vyond.
- Auto Erotica: The running gag of Zack & Kelly having sex in other people's cars continues in the movie. Kimberly & Diesel have a brief moment as well.
- Ax-Crazy: Annabelle and later on, Shinji.
- Battle Couple: Annabelle and Shinji, who murder people throughout the film for no apparent reason.
- Big Ball of Violence: Rodney and Dean get into this after roasting each other
- Big Damn Movie: Raises the stakes higher than any episode of Zara & Erika.
- Binge Montage: The film features a sequence where most of the main cast gets high.
- Black Comedy: Much of the over-the-top graphic violence is played for laughs, as well as general carelessness and a psychopathic level of disdain for others.
- Black Comedy Cannibalism: Little Bill's girlfriend, Mandy, is a cannibal who is seen eating somebody during the motel party.
- Black Comedy Rape: Seth doesn’t fill up the car until Zara gives him a handjob. She doesn’t wanna do it, and mentions that if he gets rich she’ll sue him for rape.
- Bloody Hilarious: Annabelle and Shinji's killing sprees are played for laughs.
- Brother–Sister Incest: One of the motel party games includes having sex with someone randomly in the dark. Zara plays, and when the lights come on, it's revealed she was having sex with Zack.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Barney in his motel room, and Dean while watching Requiem for a Dream.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Just like the series, rudeness and a lack of respect for others is played for laughs, although taken to a violent level here.
- Cop Killer: A sequence includes Annabelle and Shinji brutally murdering a bunch of cops and prison guards.
- Country Matters: Zara calls both Kimberly and Erikasha a cunt.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Truly the whole film, but especially the scene where Zara finds out the money they would've gotten for turning Annabelle and Shinji in was donated to a chocolate pudding foundation.
- Dance-Off: This is Shinji's final challenge with Amanda, as well as the rest of the cast when they visit her later.
- Dark Action Girl: Annabelle, as well as Erikasha, Amanda, and to a lesser degree, Zara
- Darker and Edgier: Manages to top the already risky series by having a high amount of graphic bloody violence, more frequent and explicit sex jokes, more swearing, a darker plot than most episodes, stronger references to satanism, and a higher amount of sociopathic jokes.
- Deadpan Snarker: Annabelle and Erika have a few moments of this.
- Distracted by the Sexy: In the 2004 Plotagon portion, Zara is distracted by a cute boy when the cast goes to the library to find a scientist.
- Dope Slap: Erika often does this to Zara for saying inappropriate and/or nonsensical things.
- Everybody Has Lots of Sex: In addition to the orgy, many smaller sex scenes are included throughout the movie.
- Everybody Must Get Stoned: Almost the entire cast gets stoned in a warehouse.
- Food Slap: The ghost in the new house viciously attacks Diesel with a burnt cheeseburger.
- Foreshadowing: “Chocolate Pudding will save your life one day”
- Give Geeks a Chance: After Erika turns him down, Kedra (a.k.a L Gun) hooks up with Seth, explaining that she heard nerds and losers are better at sex.
- I Love the Dead: Annabelle convinces Shinji to have sex on top of someone’s dead body.
- Laugh Track: The Plotagon sequence has a laugh track when the past Dawsons are celebrating Christmas Eve, until Annabelle becomes evil and banishes the studio audience to hell.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The Policeman, when he takes Annabelle and Shinji to their cells after their speech, disregards their monologues because “this isn’t a damn movie”.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Zack and Zara agree to this after accidentally screwing each other. But the rest of the cast, who heard the whole ordeal through the motel walls, roast them when they step out the bathroom.
- Literal Ass-Kissing: Kimberly tells Diesel to kiss her ass, and he promptly does so.
- Mind Screw: The general randomness of the film, along with the scenes of Erika, Zack, and Kelly high in Wal-Mart and the visuals when the cast travel through universes.
- N-Word Privileges: Zara tries to say nigga but promptly gets knocked out. She gets away with it when the cast travels to 2004, however.
- Off with His Head!: The music video Annabelle and Shinji watch includes a live action beheading. Also, one of the cops are beheaded in the background after they run away from the cop massacre.
- A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Both the Halloween and Motel parties invoke this.
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: The film is generally joke after joke after joke with little breaks.
- Romantic Comedy: Even with the dark themes, there’s a growing romance between Annabelle and Shinji, with a lot of tension between them.
- Running Gag: Every Christmas episode of Zara & Erika includes the song “Fuck This Christmas” by Odd Future. The movie continues this tradition by having the song play when the cast is at the gas station.
- Satire: The scenes of Maya reporting on Annabelle and Shinji is an exaggeration of how the media glorifies mass murders and turns them into icons and overnight celebrities.
- Sex Montage: An orgy occurs at the Halloween Party.
- Sexual Extortion: Seth fills up the clown car that the Dawsons drive in, but the price? Zara has to give him a hand job
- The Sociopath: Annabelle definitely fits this, as well as Amanda, Dewey, Erikasha, and in a lighter way, Zara.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: “Happy Together” by The Turtles plays during the killing spree.
- Strangely Arousing: Shinji's reaction when Annabelle rubs a knife against his face.
- Spree Killer: Annabelle and Shinji murder a large amount of people in just a few days.
- Stoners Are Funny: The film features a sequence of all the cast getting stoned in a warehouse and "tapping out" one by one.
- Surreal Humor: Diesel being attacked by random floating objects in the new house, and some of the visuals when the characters are high.
- Three-Way Sex: Zara, Violy, and Jahari engage in this at Rodney's house.
- Would Hurt a Child: Annabelle and Shinji's victims include children.
- Toilet Humor: Diesel farts a smoke cloud on Kimberly that spells out her name.
- Vulgar Humor: Jokes about sex, random violence, and gross bodily functions are rampant throughout, with a large amount of swearing to boot.
