Hollywood!!! Don't You DARE Try To Remake This!!!

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2004)

SHAUN OF THE DEAD (4+ outta 5 stars)
Definitely the best movie in the "living dead" genre since the original "Dawn of the Dead"! Even though the movie is a comedy, the humour comes from the characters of the people who find themselves in the midst of a zombie invasion... the zombies themselves are as creepy and as deadly as in the George A Romero originals. Shaun, an aging English working man, afraid to grow up into a mature adult and having girlfriend trouble as a result, wakes up one day to find London being overrun with flesh-eating zombies. This might just be the chance he is looking for to make something of himself in the eyes of his girl... if he can just avoid being eaten. This isn't a silly spoof in the style of the "Scary Movie" series... it is a genuinely effective mix of laughter and suspense. British actors are so great at portraying these "working class" characters and making them funny and also easy to identify with. From the opening strains of The Specials single "Ghost Town" the movie seems to do everything right... and there are so many ways it could conceivably go wrong. Much as I enjoyed the recent "Dawn of the Dead" remake... this movie is clearly the Zombie Movie of the Year! (Also it's nice to see the old-style zombies again... slow, lurching and relentless.)