14 October 2004
Review: Shaun of the Dead (5/5)
The reviews should have prepared me. The commercials should have prepared me. The long line of geeks dressed up as zombies and swinging rubber cricket bats during a special preview at Landmark Cinema should have prepared me. Well, geeks line up for a lot of stupid shit, so that could've gone either way.
Shaun of the Dead was one of the best horror movies I've seen in a while, and it's not that horror-filled. Although considerably less grim that these, it's at times similar to Dawn of the Dead [IMDB] and 28 Days Later [IMDB]--both also zombie movies so, yes, there appears to be a full-fledged zombie revival. Shaun was also one of the best comedies I've seen in a while. The fact that it worked so well in both styles makes it better than if it were only one or the other. Scream [IMDB] had horror and humor, but its humor was what you would typically see in a genre movie and functioned more as decoration around the main style. Shaun was well balanced in both styles.
We walked out of Shaun ready to see it a second time--both to try to hear the sometimes heavily accented dialog we missed the first time and just to enjoy a great movie again.
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