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Top 5000 Shaun of the Dead (2004) Quick Links R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror | 24 September 2004 (USA) Full Cast and Crew Plot Summary Trivia Parents Guide Your rating: -/10 Quotes User Reviews Awards Release Dates 8.0 Ratings: 8.0/10 from 355,380 users Metascore: 76/100 Reviews: 845 user | 241 critic | 34 from Metacritic.com Message Board Company Credits

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Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... Favorite End of the And get his ex back. Written by Infest0125 World Comedy? Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Genres: Comedy | Horror Favorite romantic Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) comedy... with zombies Rated R for zombie violence/gore and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: View content advisory »

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Official Sites: Rogue Pictures [United States] Country: UK | France | USA Language: English See more polls » Release Date: 24 September 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Shaun of the Dead See more » Filming Locations: 37 Abbots Gardens, East Finchley, London, England, UK See more »

Box Office Budget: £4,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: £1,603,410 (UK) (9 April 2004) Gross: $13,464,388 (USA) (26 November 2004) See more »

Company Credits Production Co: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title Films See more » Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs Runtime: 99 min Sound Mix: Dolby Digital EX Color: Color Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1 See full technical specs »

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Trivia Shaun's last name is Riley. It can be seen on a poster ad from Shaun's Disc jockeying days. See more »

Goofs When Shaun is walking to the shop (for the first time - when the zombies are not yet rampant), a man is cleaning the windscreen of his blue Vauxhall Cavalier, the windscreen is a tinted one (solar green with a blue shade). When Shaun is walking to the shop (for the second time - when the zombies are rampant), the smashed windscreen of the same Cavalier is a clear one without any tint or shade. The first shot was probably taken after the second one, as the tinted windscreen appears to have been replaced, as the rest of the Cavalier's glass is not solar tinted, too. See more »

Quotes [first lines] John: Last orders, please! See more »

Crazy Credits The credits end with the incidental Mall Muzak from Zombie - Le crépuscule des morts-vivants (1978). See more »

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Soundtracks Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop) ( Man Parrish (as Parrish) / John Robie (as Robie) / Raul A. Rodriguez (as Rodriguez) ) Performed by Man Parrish Courtesy of Unidisc Music, Inc. See more »

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Fried Gold! 9 April 2004 | by apt_last – See all my reviews

Some 5 years before the making of this film the same team behind it wrote and directed series (season) 1 and 2 of an offbeat UK sitcom named "Spaced". Massively overlooked at the time of broadcast yet with a hardcore fan base of loyal devotees a third series was long overdue but never did materialise.

Shaun of the Dead is the continuation of what went before; of a similar format yet in a completely new setting, with new characters, plus new cast members and for the first time a feature-length run time for the big screen. So how does it play out? Even with such a departure from the original setting, the history of TV to cinema adaptations is a dodgy one to say the least. Fortunately for those of us who already fans or (more likely) if you've never seen the series before prepare to be impressed.

The style is all it's own. With inventive direction and editing making the visual impact which fans will instantly recognise, to the writing which importantly is firstly genuinely funny, interspersed with references to popular culture of the past two decades, always with a self-knowing grin, a wink to the viewer rather than a pretentious nod. And of course several self-references and in-jokes of the TV series all fill in the gaps between the tastefully presented killings. There is blood, after all this is a "rom-zom- com" or "romantic zombie comedy" - a self-proclaimed new genre and rightly so. This is as about as original as it gets. They actually manage to pull off humour, violence, decapitations, action, romance, suspense, sadness and joy all within the space of 90 minutes!

This is the best film I've seen in ages, and a real credit to British film, we already knew about "Fried Gold", now the rest of the World can see it too. An instant classic.

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