Shaun of the Dead (2004)
December 16th, 2004 at 7:50 am (4 - Good)
I have a pet peeve about movies where the trailer includes all the best scenes from the movie. Although Shaun of the Dead (2004) falls dead into this category I have nothing but praise for the innovative Zombie-Comedy. The movie is co-written by Edgar Wright and the brilliant Simon Pegg who collaborated before on the British sitcom Spaced (1999). Wright directs Shaun while Pegg stars as the ultimate looser redeeming himself. The movie is full of sometimes blatant and often subtle references to Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (both the original 1978 and recent 2004 remake), 28 Days Later… (2002) and many other cult favorites (including Star Wars (1977) and Clockwork Orange, A (1971) and many others). Each reference, like the jokes in the movie, is delivered with a subtle tongue-in-cheek deadpan style that is wonderful.
I am generally too squeamish for monster or horror movies and squirmed in my seat more than once as characters were decapitated, eviscerated or quartered on screen but I simply could not turn my head away from fear of missing some well-delivered retort of character reaction. Who knew comedy and guts went so well together. Apparently Edward Wright and Simon Pegg did.
gl. said,
December 16, 2004 at 9:42 am
ha! sven & i were wondering if you would find it too gorey, but i’m very glad you saw it because i knew you’d like it if you did. it’s a good film, much better than i was expecting.
Leopoldo said,
December 16, 2004 at 4:25 pm
There were a few moments that pushed my gore-ometer to the edge… But the writing was too damned good to be too bothered by it.
lolita said,
January 19, 2005 at 4:58 pm
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Jakashi said,
May 10, 2005 at 10:40 pm
I found this movie to be a delightful combination of humor and violence(which always drives my interest!)My only problem was that my older sister was talking through the whole thing so much of it was lost to her mono tone drawll. Often i was lost but from what i could here it was hilarious! The gore was not a problem for me, I actually thought it made the movie funnier!
nicholas wyre said,
November 7, 2006 at 1:47 am
i found this movie the most funnist film iv seen in a long time it had me laughing all the though it