Co-written by Pegg and Wright (Baby Driver), Shaun of the Dead is a cult classic hailed as one of the best movies of the decade and top horror films ever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2024

It’s very rare that I can call satirical comedies as effective as the films they’re parodying, but Shaun of the Dead is one of the exceptions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 23, 2024

The fact that Shaun of the Dead is first and foremost a zombie film allows it to endure as one of the more memorable entries in a horror subgenre it could’ve simply parodied...but it also fully embodies all three elements of its “zom-rom-com” designation.

| Jul 25, 2024

Twenty years after its release, Shaun of the Dead remains a joyfully silly showcase for director Edgar Wright’s hyperkinetic visual style. It’s also unsettlingly prescient.

| Apr 4, 2024

There are many excellent satires throughout basically every period in cinema. But many of them are not necessarily good movies on their own. That is why Shaun of the Dead is different.

| Feb 20, 2024

Part deadpan farce—the survivors are downright unfazed at the sight of the shuffling undead—and part bloody slapstick spectacle, it isn’t a spoof so much as an ingenious twist on a familiar genre ...

| Sep 8, 2023

It’s clear to see why this opening Cornetto Trilogy film has come to be so beloved and influential amongst comedy filmmakers, the first cinematic collaboration between Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright being a superbly written and acted film

| Aug 8, 2023

You won’t need a box of Kleenex, but this British comedy/horror film is at times surprisingly sentimental. It’s also hysterically funny.

| Jul 26, 2023

Carefully balances its dark comedy, three-dimensional characters, and genuine chills.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 25, 2022

Every single aspect of the film feels earned, including its classic status.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 17, 2022

You have to give a lot of the credit for Shaun of the Dead to Pegg who pulls of the comedic and more emotional moments quite well.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Mar 6, 2022

A witty riff on zombie lore with plenty of gore to suffice, if you're a fan of comedic reprieve on a horrifying sub-genre, look no further than Shaun of the Dead, you won't be let down.

| Nov 12, 2021

Shaun of the Dead provides all the basics of the Zombie Apocalypse genre and adds laughs to the mix.

| Oct 15, 2021

It's no easy task combining comedy and horror into a neat little package but Edgar Wright provides a taut homage and self-aware parody without ever falling into spoof territory.

| Jun 10, 2021

The best zombie comedy yet made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

This is a very funny movie, if you can stand the gore and the thought of your best friend being kept a zombie to play video games with.

| Nov 10, 2020

It's up there among the best horror comedies of all time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2020

Wright's film acquiesced to the coupling-up plot rom-coms require, but not without first presenting the routine, pointless daily life of its protagonist...

| Sep 17, 2020

The important thing is that Wright and Pegg don't lose sight of their characters; we laugh with them, not at them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 7, 2020

...ghoulishly hilarious...

| Feb 28, 2020