Bargain Basement Horror

Rating: 1/10 (2 December 2004)

"Shaun of the Dead" is a cheap and cheerful Zombie Brit Flick. With the accent firmly on "cheap".
It looks and feels as if it was hastily conceived by a group of six form students on a media studies field trip. More akin to "Carry on Screaming" than "An American Werewolf in London".
Which is a shame really, because the horror genre has plenty of comic mileage left in it - if you can get the balance right.
And that's another thing. Is it obligatory these days for British film directors to include at least one (or in this instance two) unemployed actors from TV's "The Office"? OK it was a very funny series while it lasted, but it's been flogged to death and I'm bored with it now.
Let's face it, Lucy Davis was hardly a barrell of laughs in this film was she?