Shaun Of The Dead for Download
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Tom Charity, LOVEFiLM
Laughter and fear may not seem the likeliest bedfellows. One sensation is pure pleasure,
the other is something we usually prefer to avoid in our everyday life. There isn't a great
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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.
Amiable send-up of the zombie genre, with some good jokes. Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most Helpful |
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