Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Having no ambitions was just one of the many reasons why Liz (Kate Ashfield) dumped her long term boyfriend Shaun (Simon Pegg). But when his predictable humdrum life of playing Playstation games and heading over to the Winchester with his best friends Ed (Nick Frost) and Pete (Peter Serafinowicz) is turned upside by a random zombie outbreak, Shaun stops messing around and starts taking on the zombies directly in an attempt to protect his parents and Liz.

This English horror-comedy comes directly from the minds of director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg. With both of them having written for the popular U.K. Television series Spaced, you can clearly see the sitcom style comedy stretched over this full length movie. While there is a horror element to it, the movie plays more on site gags and fart jokes than anything else. Some of them are dead on, while others flounder horribly.

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