Shaun of the Dead( film)
Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or "rom zom com" as it dubs itself), released in 2004. It was written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, directed by Edgar Wright, and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and is the first film in their Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy. It was a critical and commercial success in both the UK and the US.
The movie is notable for the kinetic directorial style used by Wright and its references to other movies, television shows and video games. In this way, it is similar to the British television sitcom Spaced, which both Pegg and Wright worked on (Pegg as co-creator, writer and star, Wright as director). In particular, the movie contains many homages to previous zombie and horror movies, most notably the Dead trilogy of George A. Romero. The name of the film is a play on Romero's Dawn of the Dead.
Track listing
"Figment"
"The
Blue Wrath" by I Monster
"Mister Mental" by Eighties Matchbox
B-Line Disaster
"Meltdown" by Ash
"Don't Stop Me Now"
by Queen
"White Lines (Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Flash, Melle
Mel and The Furious Five
"Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)" by Man Parrish
"Zombie Creeping Flesh"
"Goblin Zombi" / "Kernkraft
400 (Osymyso Mix)" by Zombie Nation
"Fizzy Legs"
"Soft"
by Lemon Jelly
"Death Bivouac"
"The Gonk (Kid Koala Remix)"
by The Noveltones
"Envy the Dead"
"Ghost Town" by
The Specials
"Blood in Three Flavours"
"Panic" by
The Smiths
"Everybody's Happy Nowadays" by Ash Feat. Chris Martin*
"You're My Best Friend" by Queen
"You've Got Red on You
/ Shaun of the Dead Suite"
"Normality"
"Fundead"
Simon Pegg - Shaun
Kate Ashfield - Liz
Nick Frost - Ed
Lucy Davis - Dianne
Dylan Moran - David
Nicola Cunningham - Mary
Keir Mills - Clubber 1 (as Kier Mills)
Matt Jaynes - Clubber 2
Gavin Ferguson - Football Kid
Peter Serafinowicz
- Pete
Horton Jupiter - Homeless Man
Tim Baggaley - The Usher
Arvind Doshi - Nelson
Rafe Spall - Noel
Sonnell Dadral -
Danny (as Sonell Dadral)
The plot focuses on
Shaun, an unmotivated young man who is attempting to get some kind of focus in
his life as he reconciles with his ex-girlfriend and settles his various issues
with his mother and stepfather. At the same time he has to cope with an apocalyptic
uprising of zombies that is causing society to collapse.
Shaun is an appliance salesman who is going nowhere in life; he follows a mundane routine, and his girlfriend Liz is dissatisfied with their relationship, primarily because it revolves around going to "The Winchester", Shaun's favourite pub. He also has issues with his hated stepfather Phillip, his increasingly unhappy flatmate Pete, and a dissatisfying job where his younger co-workers show him no respect. Following a broken promise to do something special for their anniversary, Liz dumps Shaun. Shaun decides to drown his sorrows at the pub with his other flatmate Ed, his best friend. After a night of drinking, he has an epiphany and resolves to sort his life out.
Unfortunately, this revelation comes at the same time as an uprising of the undead, who begin to attack and devour the living. Shaun comes to realise the gravity of the situation after having a close shave with a zombie. Shaun, along with Ed, proceeds to rescue his loved ones, deciding to take Liz, along with Shaun's mother Barbara, Phillip, and Liz's friends David and Dianne, to the Winchester Pub to survive the plague.
During their journey, Phillip is mortally wounded but manages to make his peace with Shaun before turning into a zombie, forcing the group to abandon him, and their car, and go the rest of the way on foot. The remaining group find the Winchester surrounded by zombies, but Shaun manages to draw the undead away while the others barricade themselves inside. Shaun returns to the pub thinking that he gave the zombies the slip, but the zombies followed him, and soon break in. Barbara is shot by Shaun after becoming a zombie, David is torn apart and eaten, Dianne charges outside in a vain attempt to save David, Ed decides to stay behind after being bitten, and Shaun has a final confrontation with a zombified Pete. Shaun and Liz, who have reconciled over the course of the day, prepare for one last great battle against the zombie horde, but are saved by the British Army.
Six months after the zombie outbreak, society has returned to normal, and zombies have now become a part of everyday life, being used as cheap labour and game show participants. Shaun and Liz move in together, along with undead Ed, who 'lives' in the garden shed.
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