Shaun Of The Dead

Okay, okay. I know; it’s been a while since we’ve had a Friday Fun Fact, but hold on a second..why haven’t we? If we look back at the past few Fridays, I’ve either written about something completely different than a Friday Fun Fact, or I’d be working – making it impossible to write about something elaborate before or after. Especially working two jobs now, makes things extremely difficult. However to move pass the excuses, and the reasonings; today, we’re talking [Friday] Fun Facts from one of, – if not – my favorite horror-comedies ever: SHAUN OF THE DEAD.

I feel like everyone has seen this film, but if not – the story is about Shaun, who isn’t having a very good day. He then decides to turn his life around by getting his ex [who he’s in love with] to take him back, but timing is clearly not on his side, since he times all this in the middle of a zombie [“don’t say the ‘z’ word!”] apocalypse.. But luckily for him, he sees it as an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive… And get his ex back. It also has a ton of quirky trivia, but we won’t mention it all for time reasons; the film itself is fairly gory at times, it’s awesomely satirical, and it’s all around good natured fun! It’s also a relatively an easy enough film to get your hands on, so if you haven’t seen it; definitely get on that one!

but did you know?

At one point in the film, Shaun tells Liz that he’s going to take her to dinner at “the place that does all the fish”, which sounds like he forgot the name of the restaurant. However, when he opens the phone book to call for reservations, you can see that the restaurant is literally called ‘The Place That Does All the Fish’.

Near the beginning of the film, when Ed is playing on the Playstation 2, Shaun directs him with controls. [‘top left, reload, good shot’ etc] Later in the film, when the gang are in The Winchester pub and Shaun is firing at the zombies, Ed repeats exactly what Shaun instructed him to do during the gaming sequence – in case you were wondering, they were playing Time Splitters 2..

Surprisingly hard to notice, but the Battle Royale poster in Shaun‘s living room [as seen in this scene; on the right] is designed by Fred Deakin. He is also a member of the band Lemon Jellÿ, which provides music for the soundtrack of this film.

Does the zombie [don’t say the ‘z’ word!] look familiar? He definitely should, cause that’s SIMON PEGG [who played Shaun in our movie of choice today!] as it turns out, George A. Romero was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright‘s work on Shaun Of The Dead that he asked them to appear in Land Of The Dead, the fourth part of his “Dead” series, in cameos as zombies – as seen above!

Hopefully you learned a thing or two about Shaun Of The Dead, and why it’s such a perfect zombie film. as I said above, there’s so much more trivia to know about this film – as it’s within the details that we learn more about the story. Thankfully, I also plan to do more FRIDAY FUN FACTS, it’ll become more regular again, as long as work allows, and I can squeeze it in.

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