Tonight, I'm gonna have my self a real good time, so just sit back, hole up, crack out those Cornettos, and wait for all this to blow over.

 

 

- The movie came about when Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright realized they both loved zombie movies while making

As such, several cameos by characters from the sitcom (who are all now zombies, of course) seems to imply that this movie takes place within the same universe.

 

- Shaun used to be a DJ before the movie's events, as evidenced by the promotional poster in his flat (which also reveals his last name to be Riley).

 

- Every extra seen in the first third of the movie reappear as zombies later.

 

- The song that the kid on the bus is listening to is "Kernkraft 400" by Zombie Nation. Get it?

 

- When Shaun is leading Liz and her mates of her flat, he's the only one who actually fights any zombies on the way to the car. This is because the cricket bat was the only weapon in that scene that was safe to use; the blunt objects the others were carrying were real and would have hurt the extras.

 

- Simon Pegg dubbed over the zombie in the robe that attacks them in the backyard.

 

- The name of the Italian place Shaun was planning on taking Liz, "Fulci's", is a reference to Italian horror director Lucio Fulci. Alternatively, the place that does all the fish that Shaun mentions is, if you look in the phone book in the scene, literally called "The Place that Does All the Fish".

 

- Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg held a special screening for George Romero, who absolutely loved the movie, though they were surprised he didn't get this reference the first time:

 

 

Either way, he enjoyed the movie enough that

 

- This movie, along with Hot Fuzz and The World's End form the spiritual Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, which all explore themes of maturity and unlikely heroes rising to the occasion using genre tropes. Each movie contains a scene where a character eats a flavor of Cornetto Ice Cream, with that flavor's color pertaining to the movie's subject matter. Shaun is strawberry red for blood, Fuzz is original blue for the police, and World's End is mint chocolate chip green for aliens.

 

- The filmmakers created a "safe for TV" version that replaces "f***" with "funk" and "p****" with "prink".

 

- Speaking of which, the f-word is used 77 times.

 

- Chris Martin of Coldplay appears both as a zombie and as himself on TV.

 

- Shaun's discomfort with saying "the zed-word" is reference to the fact that nobody in zombie movies ever call the monsters "zombies".

 

- Nick Frost apparently shaved his nether-regions, so as to keep the inappropriate scratching Ed does throughout the movie authentic.

 

- This movie features a legendary level of foreshadowing, and that never becomes more apparent then when you realize that Ed's plan to get Shaun wasted is a summary of everything that's about to happen.

 

 

 

 

- It was this movie that introduced me to zombie movies, which helped make me the nerd I am today.

 

So thank you, Shaun of the Dead.