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Shaun Of The Dead. Image shows from L to R: Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun (Simon Pegg), Liz (Kate Ashfield). Copyright: Working Title Films
Shaun Of The Dead

Shaun Of The Dead

  • 2004 film

Zombie-filled romantic comedy. When zombies start to roam London, Shaun must kickstart himself into action to save those closest to him. Stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 105

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Simon Pegg wants you to stop asking about 'Shaun Of The Dead 2'

Simon Pegg has told fans hopeful for a sequel to 2004's Shaun Of The Dead to "move on".

Adam Starkey, NME, 5th July 2023

Edgar Wright says: no direct Shaun Of The Dead sequel

"I haven't gone back to horror-comedy, because with Shaun Of The Dead I felt like I had said much of what I wanted to say with that movie".

Darren Scott and Emily Garbutt, Games Radar, 5th October 2021

Revisiting Shaun Of The Dead

If someone asked you to name just one British horror comedy - just one among a filmography filled with buckets of blood and Yorkshire tea in equal measure - I'm almost positive your mind would cast itself to one iconic picture...

Rebecca Sayce, Capers Magazine, 21st May 2021

Why Shaun Of The Dead's great, as comedy or zombie film

In addition to being a spot-on lampoon of zombie movies, Shaun is surprisingly also one of the greatest zombie movies ever made. Without the jokes, it would work just fine as a straight horror film.

Ben Sherlock, Screen Rant, 18th March 2021

The best comedy films since 2000

30 films that define 21st-century big-screen comedy.

Jonathan Dean and Helen Hawkins, The Sunday Times, 7th June 2020

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg on Shaun Of The Dead

'An extra came up to me one day and said: "Straight to video, this one"'

Elizabeth Aubrey, The Guardian, 4th May 2020

Brits turn to classics such as Dad's Army for comfort

Brits are turning to telly classics such as Dad's Army for comfort during lockdown, new streaming figures show.

Figures from Now TV show that in the past ten days Dad's Army's popularity has gone up 211 per cent.

Other old British favourites have also seen huge leaps -- with 87 per cent more viewers for Only Fools And Horses.

Andy Halls, The Sun, 7th April 2020

Shaun of the Dead at 15

Simon Pegg on the existential terror of zombies and whether Chris Martin really cameos.

Ethan Alter, Yahoo, 16th October 2019

Nick Frost interview: no Shaun of the Dead sequel

Nick Frost is back on television in Sick Note playing an incompetent oncologist. He tells Jessica Barrett why Shaun of the Dead will never happen, and how Simon Pegg got him his good break by stealing another actor's identity...

Jessica Barrett, i Newspaper, 6th November 2017

An oral history of the horror-comedy zombie classic

Edgar Wright's rom-zom-com is a bloodstained love letter to the undead genre. Now the film's cast and creators relive this slice of fried cinematic gold.

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly, 20th October 2017

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