Shaun Of The Dead

[2004, Movie]

Shaun Of The Dead: Review

To die for: Kate Ashfield and Simon Pegg

Dying is easy, comedy is hard, and combining the two is no joke. But just when it seemed there were no more changes to be rung on zombie-movie conventions, along came first-time feature filmmakers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg with this sharp, witty nightmare comedy that proves there's still life in the dead. Pegg stars as a 29-year-old London slacker who wakes one morning to find that the city is infested with cannibal zombies. Both genuinely funny and authentically horrifying, it puts the average horror comedy to shame. Read the complete review for Shaun Of The Dead

Shaun Of The Dead: Cast & Details

Year: 2004
Rated R

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Cast
Simon Pegg: Shaun
Kate Ashfield: Liz
Nick Frost: Ed
Lucy Davis: Dianne
Dylan Moran: David
Bill Nighy: Philip

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Shaun Of The Dead: TV Guide News

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DVD Tuesday: Hot Fuzz pokes pitch-perfect fun at the excesses of Hollywood cop pictures while simultaneously delivering real action. How cool is that?This week's DVD Tuesday pick isn't profound or obscure or controversial: I just loved it. Hot Fuzz does for American-style buddy-cop pictures what Shaun of the Dead (2004) did for zombie movies: Writer-director Edgar Wright and cowriter Simon Pegg take every cliché, every stock character, every narrative contrivance and give it a sly half twist. The result is so close to the real thing, a careless channel surfer could go right by without realizing it wasn't, while being completely, utterly hilarious — even more so on a second viewing. Pegg plays London supercop Nicholas Angel, whose compulsive overachieving has cost him his girlfriend and his job: The girlfriend because she's sick of competing with the job and the job because everyone else is sick of competing with Angel and coming up short. So to keep peace in the ranks,... read more
FlickChick | 11/17/2005
While on vacation recently I came across a movie about  zombies. The non-zombies were either British or Irish, read more
Today's News: My Take | 9/27/2004
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Dead and Loving It | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/22/2004
It's not a big-budget action flick like the upcoming Alexander or a high-toned biopic like next month's Ray, but Shaun of the Dead (opening Friday) is one of the best movies you're likely to see this fall. A "romantic zombie comedy" from England, Shaun is both a dead-on homage to such genre classics as Evil Dead II, 28 Days Later ? and, of course, Dawn of the Dead ? and pretty hilarious besides. Director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg spent 18 months crafting the screenplay, which follows ... read more