Shaun of the Dead

Cast

Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost View All

Crew

Edgar Wright (Screenplay), Edgar Wright (Director), Simon Pegg (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 9th, 2004

Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

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34 Shaun of the Dead

A little bit of fun from some sitcom comedians...welcome to the first "romcomzom" movie... Shaun's life is going nowhere, and his girlfriend is getting mor...

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The Rodent
Many call the film a parody of many other movies but Shaun really is a highly inventive and incredibly clever throwback to the horror genre, with a ton of new stuff thrown in and lashings of typical Pegg And Frost humour.

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blibblobblib
Parodying George A. Romero's 1978 classic zombie flick Dawn of the Dead, this British offering adds something to the zombie genre that seems to have been absent for too long...comedy and love! .

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Optimus
Romero, creator of the films that this movie pays homage to and lampoons, was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's work that he asked them to appear in Land of the Dead (2005), the fourth part of his Dead series, in cameos as zombies.

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