Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
Rated: MA15+
WHAT’S worse than having to face up to comedians doing parodies of horror genres?
Plenty of things, of course. So one approaches Shaun of the Dead, a parody of Dawn of the Dead (also recently remade) with caution.
Gradually, the caution disappears. This parody is not badly written.
In fact, some of it is quite funny. Some of it is quite clever.
Really, it is witty in some of its parody of horror movie conventions and behaviour.
Yes, it is much better than anticipated. It is quite enjoyable.
Star, Simon Pegg, and director, Edgar Wright, have collaborated on this living dead theme in which two dim-wits don’t notice what is going on around them and, when they do, make something of a mess of trying to escape.
Filmed in London’s suburbs, it does give the impression that if everybody in the street and beyond had turned into the living dead, it all might look something like this.
An agreeable surprise even for those who think that zombie films are sacred and not to be joked about.
