29 June, 2014

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

"For a hero, you're quite a hypocrite!" David

This film is everything you expect and want it to be. It’s hilarious, slightly rude, frustrating, heart-warming, and gruesome in that lovely faux-horror way. The style and direction of this film are brilliant. It moves quickly and in stride with our “hero”. Wright and Pegg wrote a brilliant script that makes you go back and forth between relating to our main characters and laughing at their hijinks to being completely frustrated with them and just wishing that they’d grow up a bit. Shaun of the Dead is hilarious, and though in my mind the weakest of the “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” it is still strong and wildly entertaining. It’s a great example of the fun “horror” film where everything turns out alright in the end. It even makes fun of itself by briefly showing us the team that most films would showcase, the team that survives. This film is the outcome of teamwork. Amazing script, edgy direction, and a strong cast.

Rank: 56

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