“You’ve got red on you”
A lovingly comedic tribute to the work of George A Romero, Edgar Wright’s first feature film is the perfect genre blend of horror, comedy and romance as the down-on-his-luck Shaun (Simon Pegg) tries to balance life with his girlfriend and best mate Ed (Nick Frost). When hordes of Zombies begin to appear around London, Shaun must lead a group of survivors to the one location safer than anywhere else, the pub.
Kickstarting multiple collaborations between Wright, Pegg and Frost, Shaun of the Dead revitalised the parody film for modern times, whilst faithfully and reverentially referencing the works of past landmarks in Zombie cinema. An energetic, endlessly quotable breath of fresh air for British genre cinema, the spirit of this film carried on through their other much-loved titles in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy.’