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Shaun Of The Dead Details

2004 Certificate 15
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  • 70
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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
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
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
Certificate Certificate 15
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
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Shaun Of The Dead

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    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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  • 42 out of 61 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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.

    You must see this film!!!!!

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Spot on...

    Excellent cult Brit movie. Well recommended and incredibly funny.

      • A customer from North Wales
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