"There's a thrill to the mess and chaos," says Mohammad Sami, a student.

“It seemed exciting to be able to tell a story in the past that somehow reverberated in the present. And then folding that into a genre piece that reminded me of films I went to, real crowd-pleasers of the ’70s and ’80s that are a thrill to watch.

It is probably enough of a thrill to watch Daryl dispatch with zombies and despots using a medieval flail, or Carol stalk around centuries-old French villages like a commando.

Pushed to his limit, Terry maintains his cool, until he doesn’t, and it’s a thrill to watch how Saulnier lets this character off his leash.

"It was a real thrill to look at the camera footage and suddenly see this tiny miniature beaver, very very cute, playing with mum on 30 June," he said.