{"id":43206,"date":"2026-11-05T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43206"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:12:30","slug":"43206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43206","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221; (2004) written by Simon Pegg &amp; Edgar Wright, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110526zview_shaundead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Shaun of the Dead <\/i>(2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edgar Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>\u00a0Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy <\/strong>and <strong>Penelope Wilton<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>In a time of crisis a hero must rise&#8230;from his sofa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaun is a 29 year-old slacker with a deadend job. Liz, his girlfriend just dumped him. She grew tired of Shaun&#8217;s promises to grow up.\u00a0 Shaun would speak the words then revert back to playing video games or hanging out at the pub with his out of work friend, Ed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaun and Ed are so oblivious that they don&#8217;t notice a zombie apocalypse has started until it comes to their front door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now Shaun has a plan.\u00a0 He will rescue his mother.\u00a0 And Liz.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the plan.\u00a0 Now all he has to do is figure out how.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George A. Romero liked <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> so much he asked Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright to cameo as zombies in <em>Land of the Dead.<\/em> They did and appear as two chained zombies used in a photo stand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My preference for zombie (and most horror) movies is a serious take.\u00a0 <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> is the rare exception that works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Shaun of the Dead <\/i>(2004)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110526zview_shaundead2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun of the Dead (2004) Director:\u00a0 Edgar Wright Screenplay: \u00a0Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright Stars:\u00a0 Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43293,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions\/43293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}