this is Shaun of the Dead it's a zombie
movie Perry
your eye and a love letter to
pop-culture we're going to walk you
through every music movie TV show and
celebrity reference in Shaun of the Dead
the first stop obviously Shaun of the
Dead rhymes with Donald Edgar Wright was
a huge fan of George Romero's Living
Dead series
but that's not the first reference that
nominees track that's pulled from the
score of Donna today
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okay fast-forward
so these Romero references are all over
you see Shawn's zombie like shadow here
that's a play on this by Mac tick moment
in day of the dead where we see this
song show fast forward so these shots
which are now part of Edgar Wright's
signature style are called crash zooms
they're often used for something
dramatic like how Sam Raimi used them in
army of Darkness another horror movie
staple is a mirror scare it's framed
exactly like this one from an American
Werewolf in London you know the front
door was open again last night next
listen to the way Pete answers his phone
come on it was pretty does it the exact
same way in space Tom yeah
space is a surreal sitcom where Simon
Pegg and Edgar Wright first collaborated
sorry Sean
okay now we're getting into some deep
cuts listen to this radio broadcast hear
that Sean is ignoring so this is
actually referencing Night of the Living
Dead when a news broadcast says this and
then freeze on these headlines up there
on the right that's actually a reference
to this it's obscure 70s movie called
let sleeping corpses live where
pesticides caused the zombie optic next
up the song Kern Kraft 400 plays here
it's by an artist called zombie nation
get it this character is the name of the
main character
the teen employs chewing gum here it's
another shout-out to space do you think
that I'm just gonna stand by and let you
beat up my friend well you got another
thing coming we're gonna be you up to
because that you're right said teens
chewing gum look vaguely sinister so if
we can all just pull together right here
we see the stores called for E electric
Ken Foree was one of the main actors and
Dawn of the Dead
wake up sucker exactly what we are
fast-forward to
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this is a shot-for-shot match with this
scene in invasion of the body snatchers
moving forward the restaurant Shawn
forgot to get a reservation - it's
called full cheese that's named after
Italian director Lucio Fulci
known for classic cult horror films next
it asks
Clyde is an orangutan from the 1978
comedy every which way but loose
this was actually Nick Frost's go-to
party trick this is no Maj - the horror
director John Carpenter style of
shooting in movies like Halloween okay
stop the pizza shop bubs that's named
after the zombie and day of the dead I
call him bump that's what the club
fellas used to call my father and then
seriously the name tag of this zombie
says Landis as in John Landis he's the
director of Michael Jackson's Thriller
video and an American Werewolf in London
our Mary
um and then Shaun and Ed go through a
very eighties record clef
purple rice on the totally no no I like
this joke here is about the Stone Roses
second album which Simon Pegg noted he
truly did like despite the album's
lukewarm reception the most on the nose
referenced resorts Marilyn we're coming
to get you Barbara they're coming to get
you Barbara
here's a busy little British artist
listen to the way ed says this word
perfect it's just like pop Larkin in the
British series the Darling Buds of make
whoopee perfect no no no a very 2000
record that's a flavor flavor impression
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this argument about whether to call the
undead zombies it's a joke about the
fact that most zombie movies avoid using
that term entirely in the Living Dead
series they're called goals in 28 days
later they're called the infected then a
horror moment this bathroom scene plays
out similarly to the iconic psycho
shower scene Sean Ben tells Pete join us
which is what the evil force says in the
yet
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moving ahead Nick Frost gives us his
mess Matthew McConaughey
and in this shot where Sean enters
cricket bat first is what Edgar Wright
called Temple of Doom style fast-forward
list call Sean what you have in mind as
in Flash Gordon a navy Sifiso oh hey
moving forward here asks Sean
king of the zombies well the king of
zombies is actually a real zombie movie
from 1941 oh that yellow head zombie is
tires from space then you see Lucy Davis
they're showing darts
that's a nod to the Dark Lord in the
often 3.0 the bar here thrown into the
jukebox it happens from the same after
over here in Brannigan and then Shawn
wears a red tie just like Christopher
Walken use your hundred I think we
should all do right here Shawn quotes
British philosopher Bertrand Russell as
Bertrand Russell once said the only
thing that will redeem mankind is
cooperation count as a celebrity and I
appreciate the relevance about now okay
when she'll start shooting zombies
that's a call back in episode space
where simon Pegg's character plays too
much Resident Evil heads up
hyah don't sneak up on me like that that
episode initially inspired from okay and
then barber zombie fight it mirrors the
mother's bite in the zombie comedy
deadline okay let's move forward
they've been holding the rifle mirrors
Dustin Hoffman holding the rifle and
straw dog Shawn then says just like
Eddie in Reservoir Dogs movie star who
always played the hero and then in this
really wonderfully gory moment David is
torn to pieces that matches captain
Rhoades death and day of the drill then
they flee to the basement
just like in Night of the Living Dead
and Evil Dead 2
and then they have to escape from the
basement this matches the elevator in
day of the day okay and here's Coldplay
the fact that okay right here Edgar
Wright voices a newscaster who says
which is the same outbreak in 28 days
later finally we fade out to Queens
you're my best friend
which includes the lyric
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and that's every references oh wait the
music at the end of the credits that's
the same Muzak as in the mall in Dawn of
the Dead so that's every reference in
Sean of the day we think