Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British Horror comedy directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright, known as a "rom-zom-com" (romantic zombie comedy).
The plot focuses on Shaun, a 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 upris...
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Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British Horror comedy directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright, known as a "rom-zom-com" (romantic zombie comedy).
The plot focuses on Shaun, a 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 destroying society.
Pegg and Wright have referred to Shaun of the Dead as being the first film in their "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy" with Hot Fuzz as the second and The World's End as the third.
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is an appliance salesman whose life is going nowhere; he follows a mundane routine, and his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is dissatisfied with their relationship, primarily because it revolves around going to "The Winchester", Shaun's favourite pub, every night. He also has issues with his hated stepfather...
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