I just rented Shaun of the Dead and can TOTALLY recommend it. Really funny, often very sweet, and filled with enough gross out zombie stuff to make the horror mavens happy.

Some great, really funny bits. The TV bits, at the end, had me choking, I was laughing so loud.

Any other Shaun fans out there????

Yes, what a great movie. I hadn't expected it to be so realistically gruesome, and at points it was a serious movie, rather than a comedy. Still, it had so many hilarious moments. Big thumbs up for me.

You know what? I am SO glad someone started a forum for this movie. The movie was hilarious, its exactly what we needed to spice up this area in movies. The "Red Zone" that we all expect such low acting qualities and high violence factors. I am hoping that it will inspire Edgar Wright to pull out a few more like this (not zombies of course.)

I'm glad to see so much love for Shaun here. As a long-time music geek, I absolutely DIED laughing when they were picking through Shaun's record collection looking for acceptable albums to throw at the zombies. Priceless.

It was a really eclectic mix of comic, sweet romance, sweet but sad friendship, and gory horror. I was NOT expecting the graphic gore that I got, but it wasn't distracting. It just served as a counterpoint to the funny stuff. I'm biased...I love zombie flicks...but it was a great film.

I watched it like five minutes ago and almost soiled myself it was so funny. The only way to honestly describe this movie is "Holy Shit!" Even after hearing about the gore, I still wasn't prepared for what I saw. And that bit where they pull David's legs off is hilarious.

"Purple Rain."
"No."
"Sign o' the Times."
"Definitely not."
"The Batman soundtrack?"
"Throw it."

I guess for myself, being a gorehound, didn't really think it was all that violent. I was to say the least, underwhelmed by that aspect. I guess to reach viewers with less tolerance for "the red" they had to keep it toned down. There were violent scenes, but they were easily whiped out soon after by the comedy involved. Not at all comparable, in violence aspect, to Dead Alive or Evil Dead 2. (But not really the same sort of humor either.)

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Originally posted by Nickel-Z:
I guess for myself, being a gorehound, didn't really think it was all that violent. I was to say the least, underwhelmed by that aspect. I guess to reach viewers with less tolerance for "the red" they had to keep it toned down. There were violent scenes, but they were easily whiped out soon after by the comedy involved. Not at all comparable, in violence aspect, to Dead Alive or Evil Dead 2. (But not really the same sort of humor either.)

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I think, given the amount of non-horror humor in the first 45 minutes, the COUNTERPOINT of gore to humor that comes is what's shocking. My wife, who doesn't mind gore, had to turn away from the scene in the bar. But it certainly wasn't outrageously gory. It seemed to me just about right.

And the scene you point to, Mike, in your spoiler blackout, was truly brilliant. Batman, indeed.

You all need to see Spaced immediately. This was the TV series most of the people in the movie did long before this and where the idea actually came from (an episode dedicated to Resident Evil).

Yus, I knew this. The only problem is I live in the United states, and if you live in the U.S. you can't see these because of region codes on dvds. In theory I could get a dvd and change the region on my laptops dvd player, but you can only change it twice and I'd only be able to watch it once. Ive resorted to downloading episodes off of winmx (shh dont tell)

I got them all through Torrents. Get Black Books if you can too. Many people from Spaced guest on it.

Do you live in the U.S.? I mean... the region codes on the british dvd's wont allow me to play them.

I live in Canada. If youy bought the DVDs they wouldn't work unless you've got the right DVD player, which are cheaply available these days, but I downloaded them using torrents. There is no code on AVI files.

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Do you live in the U.S.? I mean... the region codes on the british dvd's wont allow me to play them.

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I'm not an expert on this, but several friends of mine bought cheap DVD players (less than $100) that are able, after some minor tinkering, to play all region DVDs. If you're interested, I can find out more about what models they used and get back to you...

If its not too hard, very interested I am.

I'll find out and shoot back on this thread, even though it's not Shaun-related.

Mine is a Cyber Home player (a cheapy) and it's able to play region 1, 2, and 4 discs for sure (because I've tried them all).

The hack is here:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Cyberhome+CH-DVD+300

A more general list of hacks for multiple players is here:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

Thanks man, on a related note I wanted to do this for so long when I saw Shaun of the Dead available on UK Amazon far before the American Theatrical release. I was bummin that I am barred by this region crap. Then I realised I could buy it on VHS, but just settled for waiting till it came in U.S. theatres.

Their tape format is different too. I took a vid over to see and it just looks like a blank tape, all white noise, in their machines.

I watched "Shaun of the Dead" wih my family, and even my wife loved it. Then, I had some friends and my brother over, and I showed them a double-bill of "Bubba Ho-Tep" and "Shaun of the Dead". It went over really well.

I saw in an ad that Best Buy was double-packaging the remake of Dawn of the Dead with Shaun of the Dead for a low price ($17.99).

Then my wife bought me the package (and seasons 1 and 2 of Seinfeld) for Valentine's Day. WHATTA WOMAN!!!