Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Now almost twenty years later Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's horror comedy retains all it's brilliance especially in it's references to George A Romero's Dead films.
It's beautifully characterised and played and can i guess be watched as a pure comedy or a genuine horror film - Dylan Moran comes to an end every bit as stomach churning as Jo Pilato in Romero's own Day of the Dead (1985) - or like the majority of us, seen for what it is an excellent slice of black comedy horror.
I watched Hot Fuzz (2007), the second of Wright / Pegg's Cornetto trilogy on Sunday and thought it still far superior to The World's End (2013) (reviewed last week) but it doesn't come close to Shaun of the Dead. Although Timothy Dalton cuts one hell of a commanding figure compared to everyone else in Fuzz.
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