City Cinema: Shaun of the Dead

Horror/Comedy. 18A, violence.
Dir: Edgar Wright, 2004, UK, 99 min.
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran.

“Electronics-store clerk Shaun (Simon Pegg) is wasting his life downing pints at the local pub with his obnoxious flatmate Ed and underappreciating his way-out-of-his-league girlfriend Liz. He’s such a zombie that an entire day passes before he notices a virus is spreading through London, turning everyone into actual zombies – the grunting, gnashing, undead kind. Can he survive? Will he bother trying? The zombie-movie genre already has some wink-wink funny entries, but this U.K. smash hit, written by Pegg and Wright, takes the prize. It’s a bloody hoot.” —David Ansen, Newsweek