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Shaun of the Dead

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• Comedy
• Horror

• 2004
• Edgar Wright
• 95 mins
• 15

Summary

Comedy horror starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. On the day north London slacker Shaun decides to sort his life out, the dead rise and the city becomes overrun with zombies. Can Shaun and best mate Ed fight off the marauding hordes of the undead and win back Shaun's girlfriend? Or will they just go down the pub?

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Just as Londoner Shaun (Simon Pegg) decides to get his aimless life back on track, the capital becomes Zombie Central as the dead rise to eat the living. Pegg and director Edgar Wright first hit their stride with cult Channel 4 series Spaced, and this again combines undergrad humour and hardcore horror, ransacking George A Romero's Dead saga and virtually every Italian zombie flick for inspiration. It may seem like a one-joke conceit but you do actually care about the characters, which sustains the narrative. Shaun's mates are all played by familiar TV faces - Spaced's Nick Frost, The Office's Lucy Davis, Black Books's Dylan Moran. But the real stars are his mum, the magnificent Penelope Wilton, and stepdad, Bill Nighy, who move the splatter farce into more resonant areas.

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7.8/10

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Cast

rolenameShaunSimon PeggLizKate AshfieldEdNick FrostDavidDylan MoranDianneLucy DavisBarbaraPenelope WiltonPhilipBill NighyYvonneJessica StevensonMaggieTamsin GreigYvonne's friendReece ShearsmithYvonne's friendMatt LucasYvonne's friendMartin FreemanYvonne's mumJulia Deakin

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rolenameDirectorEdgar Wright

Details

Theatrical distributor

UIP

Released on

2004-04-09

Languages

English | English

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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