Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1132 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-12-21
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.com
British horror/comedy Shaun of the Dead is a scream in all senses of the word. Brain-hungry zombies shamble through the streets of London, but all unambitious electronics salesman Shaun (Simon Pegg) cares about is his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), who just dumped him. With the help of his slacker roommate Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun fights his way across town to rescue Liz, but the petty concerns of life keep getting in the way: When they're trying to use vinyl records to decapitate a pair of zombies, Shaun and Ed bicker about which bands deserve preservation--New Order they keep, but Sade becomes a lethal frisbee. Many zombie movies are comedies by accident, but Shaun of the Dead is deliberately and brilliantly funny, while still delivering a few delicious jolts of fear. Also featuring the stealthy comic presence of Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and some familar faces from The Office. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker
It is only natural to be scared of zombies, and to prevent them from laying waste to your home. A more relaxing approach, however, is to be bored and vaguely annoyed by them, or, better still, not to notice them in the first place. This is the premise of Edgar Wright's British comedy, which may be responsible for kicking off a new and specialized genre of slacker horror. Shaun (Simon Pegg) lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend (Kate Ashfield), his mother (Penelope Wilton), and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners. The finale, in which the pub turns into an Alamo, is the bloodiest, most orthodox, and least witty part of the movie; far sharper are the early scenes in which Shaun wanders happily to the local store along a battered, zombie-dotted street and pulps his attackers with a cricket bat. The central joke is so snappy and well sustained that you barely catch sight of the ominous vision on offer: a country that already feels like death. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

shaun of the stupid
This movie was funny i saw this long time ago and this was like jack frost all comedy no horror but exept jack frost did'nt have zombies. It's funny how they like to make fun of zombie movie's whitch is great cause it's like there saying oh people are getting board seeing the samething happening in zombie movie's so why don't we make it more fun and exciteing and that's what they did in this movie, this and dead and breakfest were the only two zombie comedy movies that came out, they should make more zombie comedy movie's but this movie was great and funny.

Shaun of the Dead
I loved the movie. Simon Pegg is great. The DVD came in the mail on time and in great shape. Thanks!

Internationally Unifying
I can't think of a single other movie which so brilliantly ties together industrialized, Western civilization through story and character. It doesn't matter what country you're from, or what language you speak. If you live in North America, western Europe, or Austrailia, you probably personally know a version of Shaun and each of his friends. I personally can't watch Shaun of the Dead without forgetting that there's a border between the US and Canada, an ocean between those two and the UK, and a planet between me and Austrailia/New Zealand. It has no politics, no preaching, and no culturally polarizing commentary. It's good-natured comedy, clever writing, and memorable acting. Because of these reasons, this is certainly in my own top 10 favorite movies of all time.