PopHorror Let's Get Scared
20 years ago Edgar Wright brought us one of the greatest zombie comedys of our time. Shaun Of The Dead.
Synopsis
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his layabout roommate Ed (Nick Frost) are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Shaun of the Dead is, by far, one of my favourite zombie movies, it’s actually one of the only zombie movies I’ll re-watch. Not to mention it has probably the greatest fight scene I’ve ever seen. You know I’m talking about the scene with Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now is playing.
PopHorror compiled a list of fun facts to celebrate this milestone.
Top 10 Fun Facts:
1. When asked by an interviewer why they chose to have slow moving zombies instead of running zombies, Simon Pegg simply replied, “Because death is not an energy drink.
2. When Shaun calls his mom Ed shouts “We’re coming to get you Barbra,” which is a play on George A. Romero’s film Night Of the Living Dead 1968. Romero was oblivious to the fact it was a direct lift from his movie and only found out later after a phone conversation with Edgar Wright.
3. When Shaun is heading to the shop for the first time, a worker on the street is listening to the radio. The newscast mentions a space probe that unexpectedly re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and broke up over England. This is also likely a reference to Night of the Living Dead (1968), in which radiation from a satellite returning from Venus was given a possible cause for the dead returning to life.
4. Just when Shaun is exiting the corner shop, which is tuned to a radio station playing songs from Indian movies, the song stops and a newscaster begins speaking in Hindi. The content of the news, when translated in English, is, “People are waking up from their graves.”
