A George Romero movie......with British humor.

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2005)

Shaun of the Dead is a unique zombie movie. It's unique because it's also romantic. It's unique because it mixes British humor with American Horror. It's unique because it's a romantic comedy...with zombies.
Shaun of the Dead tells a story about two slackers, Ed and Shaun. Shaun is a %50 loser, %50 nice guy. He loves his work as a manager of an electronics store, he loves playing Timesplitters: Future Perfect with his buddy, Ed and also loves hanging out at the Winchester with him. But he gets overstressed by his flatmate Pete, his girlfriend Liz, and also Liz's friend, David. He is also sad because he was chosen with two options: His girlfriend or the pub he hangs out with.
Ed, on the other hand, is a pure loser. He is fat, he has no job and he kept playing Timesplitters: Future Perfect for 6 hours a day. He makes Shaun looks stupid, but Shaun didn't realized this till the middle of the movie. He has a good social intelligence, due to the fact that he knows most people hanging out at the pub (Snakehips the womanizer, the ex-porn star and John the barman). He is easily hated by his 2nd flatmate, Pete.
Shaun has a girlfriend named Liz. She's a primary school teacher and both of them met in Greece. She lives with David, a lecturer and Diana, a drama school teacher. She gets tired of Shaun hanging out with Ed, so she wants Shaun to go somewhere interesting than the Winchester, so Shaun promised. But, like other promises, this one's a failed promise.So she dumped Shaun, causing Shaun to hang out with Ed at the Winchester, again.
The next day, zombies attacked London. Shaun doesn't realized until a zombie girl appeared in the garden. Worrying that his other loved ones may suffer the same thing, Shaun and Ed came to rescue Liz, Shaun mother Barbara, Diana and David, who thinks that he is more smarter than Shaun and the rest of the crew. And so, they headed for somewhere safe, somewhere Ed says: "Know where the exits are, somewhere familiar, and he can smoke", and the only place to have it all is: The WInchester.
Now, let's get on to the other characters. Diana is a good friend of Liz who is also supportive of Shaun even when she supports David more. David, on the other hand is not supportive of Shaun in all sorts and thinks that he is smarter than Shaun, and this has a very open debate between the book smarts(David) and the street smarts(Shaun). Peter is Shaun's flatmate. He hates Ed and keeps accusing Shaun of defending Ed. He ends up becoming a naked bathtub zombie. Philip is Shaun's grumpy step dad and has always been unkind to Shaun with his Gothic accent and his suspicious behavior. Barbara is Shaun's sweet mum and despite of Shaun's hatred towards Philip, Barbara still loves Philip, even when becoming a zombie.
What differs this movie from other zombie films that it is not about the zombies nor the amount of violence unlike Romero's Living Dead and Raimi's Evil Dead series, but it's more about survival and background. It's tells you more about what are you going to do when something like this happens. The background is also important. Just like Ju-On, the surrounding of the whole area is what's more important. When Shaun was drinking tea with his mum, you can hear the car Ed was driving crashing to the post and when Shaun and Ed were drinking at the Winchester the day Shaun broke up with Liz, you can see the zombie walking to the bar door. It's all that matters, you can even see more of it if you watch it.
The whole script was good. It has a good humor and the best ever and also has some reference from zombie films to several 80's hip-hop music. SImon Pegg delivers the best in zombie comedy since Peter Jackson's Braindead, and Edgar Wright's direction gave us the best in high-quality film-making. If you're a fan of horror who hate romance, then this movie's for you. If you're a fan of romance who hates horror, then this movie's for you too. If you're a fan of both, then of course this movie's for you. What else i'm gonna say? Rating: 10/10