Tag: Shaun of the Dead
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The Last Of Us Finally Shows Us How Evil Fedra Can Be
“The Last of Us” is a bit of a deceiving game. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be any immediate thing that separates this from, well, any of the other dozens of zombie shows and movies from the past few decades. This is no groundbreaking mix of genres like “Juan of the Dead,” or…
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Shaun of the Dead, the Power of Friendship, and the Pain of Growing Up
At the core of Edgar Wright’s horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead is a message: growing up can be a bit of a nightmare, but with the right friends by your side, it might just be okay. For emotionally-stunted slackers everywhere, the film is a rallying cry to arms. It isn’t and can’t be enough to…
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Shaun of the Dead Is Better at Scaring Us Than Traditional Horror Movies
Shaun of the Dead is a 2003 horror-comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It is the first of the Cornetto Trilogy and is widely regarded to be one of the greatest horror comedies of all time. The film followed 29-year-old nobody Shaun (Pegg), who is working a dead-end job…
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Aubrey Plaza Responds to ‘Tomb Raider’ Fan Casting: I’m Open to Playing the ‘Original Badass’
Edgar Wright, casting agent?After the “Shaun of the Dead” director mistook Aubrey Plaza’s recent MovieMaker magazine cover as a promo for “Tomb Raider” 3.0, Plaza herself has responded to the fan casting rumors.“Look, I have no idea what the future holds for me, but I love it,” Plaza told Newsweek. “It was so funny when…
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Comedy Horror Movies The Average Person Would Never Survive
Horror comedies are difficult to execute well — there needs to be just the right balance of terrifying scares and lighthearted laughs. But it truly is a wonderful subgenre when that balance is found. Films such as “The Lost Boys,” “The Little House of Horrors,” and “Shaun of the Dead” stand the test of time for…
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Comedy Horror Movies Most People Could Actually Survive
The horror genre is vast and expansive, containing countless subgenres guaranteed to keep fans coming back for more. Horror comedies are arguably the most popular subgenre, marrying the laughs with the screams that make for an accessible experience for even the biggest scaredy-cats. Some of the best horror films of all time fall under the…
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The Daily Stream: Hot Fuzz Is The Best Of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy. Change My Mind.
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Hot Fuzz” (2007)Where You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Sophomore efforts from promising young filmmakers often result in disappointment, but thankfully, that was not the…
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One Of Shaun Of The Dead’s Most Memorable Moments Wasn’t In The Script
“Shaun of the Dead” eliminates the need on movie night to choose between a zom-com (zombie comedy) or rom-com (romantic comedy) by giving audiences a blend of them both with a “rom-zom-com,” as writer/director Edgar Wright and writer/star Simon Pegg once described it to MTV News.In “Shaun of the Dead,” Pegg plays the titular Shaun…
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Simon Pegg Says He’s “Circling” A Project That Would Reteam Him With Edgar Wright
While Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have fully branched out to have amazing careers on their own, most film fans discovered them as filmmaking cohorts on features such as “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” Over the years since the release of 2013’s “The World’s End,” the two men haven’t really been able to…
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5 Marvel Characters We’d Love To See Simon Pegg Play
You may know Simon Pegg as Scotty from “Star Trek.” You may also know him and Benji from the “Mission: Impossible” movies. Or you saw “Spaced,” or “Shaun of the Dead.” Or perhaps you’re just a big fan of the 2006 heist film “Big Nothing.” However you might have first encountered him, it’s likely you…