When there is no more room in hell, Shaun will walk the earth and...

Inventive and fun satire of those bloody zombie movies

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Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead (2004)

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Nick Frost

Kate Ashfield

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The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

Shaun of the Dead

...He&apos;ll kill some zombies too! Brace yourself for some nonstop zombie action and laughs with the delightful horror-comedy &quot;Shaun of the Dead.&quot;

Armed with a cricket bat, razor-sharp wit, and an attitude, Shaun (Simon Pegg) is perhaps the last guy that you&apos;d want to save the world from the legions of the living dead that have suddenly begun to storm the London neighborhood where he lives. It could be stated, as this is a running gag here, that we&apos;re all dying slow deaths, so it&apos;s no surprise that when zombies begin to eat the flesh of the living, Shaun couldn&apos;t be any more oblivious to the chaos that has gripped most of London.

Shaun loves his dead-end existence of wasting his days at the Winchester, a local pub, with his friend and flat mate Ed (Nick Frost). The film&apos;s money shot arrives about 20 minutes in, when Shaun, hungover from a hard night&apos;s drinking, goes to the store and because he&apos;s so hungover and is worried about his ex-girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), he doesn&apos;t even notice that the street behind him is teeming with the living dead.

While in the store buying a beverage, he doesn&apos;t notice the bloody handprints on the refrigerator door and he almost slips in a puddle of blood. I was quite amazed at the response this film got from people in the theater: it seemed that every time something funny happened, the response was almost always with riotous laughter.

Straight from Britain, we have what is certainly one of the most original horror movies to come out in a long time. Even in a genre that embraces gore, &quot;Shaun of the Dead&quot; is fairly light on it (at least for the first 45 minutes) and is dominated by laughs galore.

You may remember the character of &quot;Ash&quot; (Bruce Campbell of &quot;Evil Dead&quot; fame), who has remained pretty much the supreme demon slayer in the horror genre. But you know, Campbell&apos;s pushed past 40 and people today may not be weary of his history slaying evil Deadites in Sam Raimi&apos;s notorious film series. So maybe with &quot;Shaun of the Dead,&quot; the torch has been passed to Simon Pegg, who slays more than his fair share of the living dead in this film.

It&apos;s pretty obvious that &quot;SOTD&quot; was greatly influenced by the works of George A. Romero (the director of 1978&apos;s supreme epic of zombie action-mayhem &quot;Dawn of the Dead&quot;) and 2002&apos;s &quot;28 Days Later&quot; (directed by Danny Boyle). There are little itty-bitty references to the two zombie flicks throughout the movie.

Granted &quot;Shaun of the Dead&quot; is aimed largely at the gorehounds who idolized Romero&apos;s &quot;Living Dead&quot; trilogy, but it&apos;s also the first zombie flick to attempt making a hit with the mainstream. I guarantee any viewers out there that you&apos;ll spend more time laughing than you will being frightened.

10/10

&apos;The Monkey&apos; stars Tatiana Maslany (&quot;She-Hulk&quot;) and Theo James (&quot;The White Lotus&quot;), plus their director Osgood Perkins (&apos;Longlegs&apos;) sit down with IMDb to discuss how Perkins&apos;s tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the Stephen King short story sets the tone for the film, why James and Maslany vibe with that sick sense of humor, and which of the many Rube Goldbergian death scenes is their favorite.

The Sick Sense of Humor in &apos;The Monkey&apos;

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...He'll kill some zombies too! Brace yourself for some nonstop zombie action and laughs with the delightful horror-comedy "Shaun of the Dead."

Armed with a cricket bat, razor-sharp wit, and an attitude, Shaun (Simon Pegg) is perhaps the last guy that you'd want to save the world from the legions of the living dead that have suddenly begun to storm the London neighborhood where he lives. It could be stated, as this is a running gag here, that we're all dying slow deaths, so it's no surprise that when zombies begin to eat the flesh of the living, Shaun couldn't be any more oblivious to the chaos that has gripped most of London.

Shaun loves his dead-end existence of wasting his days at the Winchester, a local pub, with his friend and flat mate Ed (Nick Frost). The film's money shot arrives about 20 minutes in, when Shaun, hungover from a hard night's drinking, goes to the store and because he's so hungover and is worried about his ex-girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), he doesn't even notice that the street behind him is teeming with the living dead.

While in the store buying a beverage, he doesn't notice the bloody handprints on the refrigerator door and he almost slips in a puddle of blood. I was quite amazed at the response this film got from people in the theater: it seemed that every time something funny happened, the response was almost always with riotous laughter.

Straight from Britain, we have what is certainly one of the most original horror movies to come out in a long time. Even in a genre that embraces gore, "Shaun of the Dead" is fairly light on it (at least for the first 45 minutes) and is dominated by laughs galore.

You may remember the character of "Ash" (Bruce Campbell of "Evil Dead" fame), who has remained pretty much the supreme demon slayer in the horror genre. But you know, Campbell's pushed past 40 and people today may not be weary of his history slaying evil Deadites in Sam Raimi's notorious film series. So maybe with "Shaun of the Dead," the torch has been passed to Simon Pegg, who slays more than his fair share of the living dead in this film.

It's pretty obvious that "SOTD" was greatly influenced by the works of George A. Romero (the director of 1978's supreme epic of zombie action-mayhem "Dawn of the Dead") and 2002's "28 Days Later" (directed by Danny Boyle). There are little itty-bitty references to the two zombie flicks throughout the movie.

Granted "Shaun of the Dead" is aimed largely at the gorehounds who idolized Romero's "Living Dead" trilogy, but it's also the first zombie flick to attempt making a hit with the mainstream. I guarantee any viewers out there that you'll spend more time laughing than you will being frightened.

10/10

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