When a zombie apocalypse strikes London, lovable loser Shaun (Simon Pegg) finally finds enough motivation to try and get his life together.
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Though this film was inspired by an episode of the sensational Brit-com Spaced (created by Simon Pegg with Jessica Hynes née Stevenson and directed by Edgar Wright) I applaud the fact that for this film they chose to take things in a drastically different direction. While Pegg and Wright's previous collaboration chose to focus on how we tend to view our lives in pop culture terms (ie: a hellish job literally becomes the mental institution in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), Shaun of the Dead shows that no matter how much mental preparation we've had either through film, video games or daydreaming, when the shit actually hits the fan and we find ourselves living through a situation right out of a genre film - we geeks will be just as helpless as everyone else. But hey, at least we'll get to enjoy a pint and some nibblies before we have to kill our loved ones.
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