For some reason – there’s a belief that people just don’t want to pay and see these movies… which, to be fair, may be true (See the less-than-spectacular financial returns of Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse or The Cabin in the Woods or Drag Me to Hell…) Even companies that make horror-comedies today are reticent to label them such: the horror-comedy Happy Death Day was marketed as ‘horror-fun’, lest anyone, even for a second, think about calling it a ‘horror-comedy’ (the audacity!)Shaun of the Dead trailers, video clips available on Blu-ray, DVD. R.The ‘horror comedy’ tends to be the kiss of death for any studio or filmmaker. All he has to do is survive, and get his ex back. But for him, its an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. Shaun (Simon Pegg) doesnt 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.
The proud and out ‘horror comedy’ launched the careers of both its stars Simon Pegg & Nick Frost and its director Edgar Wright. Watch Day Of The Dead online on MX Player to enjoy this classic horror movie that will give you goosebumps.There is one exception to this anti ‘horror-comedy’ crusade, one film that’s seemingly bucked the odds and overcome the stigma: Shaun of the Dead. Released on 30 June 1985, the movie was a success at the box office.
“They put us on a low-loader and we had to spin the car round and round,” Davis recalled “We had several cameras on us and we did it again and again and again. Philip ( Bill Nighy) succumbs in the back seat to his zombie bite, prompting Ed ( Nick Frost) to spin the car dramatically to a stop. In the end, a group dressed as Simon, Liz, Ed, Diane, David & Barbara took the top prize (despite not being dressed as zombies – which seems like a technicality… but I digress.)After the contest, Edgar Wright and Lucy Davis took the stage and Q&A’d one another on their experiences working on the film over a decade ago.Lucy Davis spoke about her most difficult day on the Shaun set – the scene where the principle cast is crammed into the same car, trying to make it to The Winchester. For highlights and pictures from the event, read on below.The event opened with a zombie-costume contest – various attendees were dressed throughout The Greek Theater as zombies, to the point where it was impossible to tell who worked at the event and who just decided to come to the screening in zom-garb. There comes a day in every mans life.At the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, Edgar Wright, Shaun co-star Lucy Davis (Dianne) and Fandango Correspondent Alicia Malone presented a special fan screening of the zombie comedy, complete with a zombie costume contest, free shirts, a whole lot of drinks and even a prescreening Q&A.
You can see it in the scene with Dylan Moran (David). Eventually when they finally break the windows and come in, there was this genuine bloodlust from the extras. I had real sympathy for the zombies because it's one thing to be doing long hours in that make up with those uncomfortable contacts, it's another thing to be standing outside a window banging on it for what seemed like ten days. They were really there - about fifty of them.
Davis laughed, "We'd have the odd egg or stone pelted at us. But I felt like I deserved it.”The production filmed quite a number of scenes outside The Winchester at night - and sometimes the teenagers in the area would disrupt shooting. One of them even bit me on the leg. So I'm standing in the middle with a sound guy - and I'm like, ‘Alright guys come at me.’ They swarmed me. So they're not on camera, but I remember for one lunch break, we kept the zombies back for fifteen minutes and told them we just want to record the sound of them going crazy.
Now without further ado – the exact order of IMDB plot key words for Shaun of the Dead (per Edgar Wright): "Zombie, Record Collection, Pub, Cricket Bat, Long Take, Severed Head, Generation X, Dysfunctional Society, Lifting Person in Air, Suburbia, Television Being Used, Throat Ripping, Improvised weapon, Ink (?), Accountant, Broken bottles, Stepfather-stepson relationship, flower shop, National Emergency, Decapitation, Old Lady, Rifle Death, Social Satire, Arab Grocer, Door, Mother-Son Relationship, No Opening Credits, Secret Love, Friendship, Hit with a Shovel, Lookalike, Beheading, Love in England, Electronic Store, Explosion, Shot Repeatedly, Boyfriend-Girlfriend Relationship, Machine Gun, Shot in the Chest, Answering Machine, Roommate, Hip-hop Montage, Friendship Between Men, SWAT Team, Actress, Shot in the Neck, Car Crash, Eaten Alive, Trampoline, Convenience Store, Loss of Mother, Tool Shed, Severed Head, Cult, Flower, Cellphone, The Color Red, Character Name in Title. All the rest of it is great."In front of screenings of Shaun of the Dead, Wright likes to list the IMDB plot key words for the film.
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