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Shaun Of The Dead
2004
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead begin roaming the earth (or .. Read more
| Starring | Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Bill Nighy |
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| Director | Edgar Wright |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror, Romance |
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Shaun Of The Dead
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead begin roaming the earth (or London's Crouch End, at least) and, with the help of his slacker chum, Ed (Nick Frost), he must save Liz and his dear mum from becoming zombies! Well, that's if he can get out of the local pub...
| Starring | Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Bill Nighy, Matt Lucas, Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, David Walliams, Dylan Moran, Lucy Davis, Penelope Wilton, Julia Davis, Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman |
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| Director | Edgar Wright |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK VIDEO RENTAL |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
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| Genres | Comedy, Horror, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Sep 2004 Blu-ray: 12 Oct 2009 HD DVD: 15 Oct 2007 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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On the day north London slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) decides to get his aimless life together, the capital becomes Zombie Central as the dead rise to eat the living. If you like Pegg and director Edgar Wright's cult Channel 4 series Spaced, you'll enjoy their “Night of the Living Deadpan” blend of student union humour and hardcore horror, which ransacks George A Romero's entire Dead trilogy and virtually every Italian zombie flick for inspiration. The movie's one joke gets old pretty fast but the sleazy retro video-nasty feel Wright aims for is absolutely spot on. Shaun's mates are all played by familiar TV faces — Spaced's Nick Frost, The Office's Lucy Davis, Black Books' Dylan Moran. But none are in the same class as his mum, the magnificent Penelope Wilton, and stepdad, Bill Nighy, who move the splatter farce into more resonant areas than a run-of-the-mill pub gag.
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Brain-dead, sunken-eyed, shambling and gormless - London's 20-somethings don't look set to wrest control of the... read more on Time Out
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42 out of 61 people found this review helpful
OH YES!!!
What a film! It's really hard to find a horror/comedy that keeps you laughing all the way through but 'Shaun of the Dead' did just that!
The gags at the beginning were just as good as the ones at the end.... AND YET! still paid homage to the 1978 'Dawn of the Dead' film it was obviously based on.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Tonight, I'm gonna have myself, a real good time.....
This is what I call a 'Marmite' film...you will either love it or hate it ! I don't like Marmite but I love this film !! I guess you have to have a slapstick, slightly twisted sense of humour. If you liked Spaced, Bottom, The Young Ones, you will probably enjoy this lots! If you are more of a Four Weddings comedy person, this aint for you. Loads of over the top gore, in jokes and movie references and the best use for a Sade album you will ever see! I have watched this film many times and it still makes me laugh. The jokes and laughter are thick and fast. Like 'Hot Fuzz', this is so ridiculous it is hilarious. Never thought I would laugh at someone being ripped to pieces !! Word of warning...you will never again be able to listen to Queens 'Don't Stop Me Now' without a smile on your face !
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Shaun of the Dead - HD DVD Version
Pub regular Shaun certainly needs a drink. He's fallen out with his Mum and his girlfriend's dumped him. Determined to get his sad life back on track, he decides to pull himself together only to be confronted with an unexpected obstacle, an unrelenting swarm of suburban living corpses. Who'd've ...
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Shaun Of The Dead - BLU-RAY Version
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ...
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Shaun Of The Dead
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ...
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