Shaun of the Dead returns to theaters for its 20th anniversary

In a restored version, and right for Halloween: the film that really made Edgar Wright and his team famous is back on the big screen, and is now tinged with nostalgia.

That's it, you are recovered from Terrify 3 ? If you want to take a breather after the bloody exploits of Art the Clown (or if you don't feel up to it), you can watch it again in theaters Shaun of the Deadwhich returns in a restored version this October 30, 2024. A good plan for Halloween, surely: Shaun is a good classic zombie film (on the normality/infection/survival pattern), but above all a great comedy, and we know that good comedies are also appreciated collectively. Shaun of the Deadwhich (barely) parodied zombie films long before they became a corny cliché (Hollywood took eight years to make the much more sluggish Welcome to Zombieland After Shaun), was the opportunity for Edgar Wright to demonstrate their skills as a director (he is currently filming the new Running Man with Glen Powell).

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Oh, sure, Edgar wasn't born with it Shaun of the Dead. Him and his gang (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson) had already filmed the hilarious mini series Spacedof which Shaun will take all the grammar: hyper editing cutconstant dialogue between words and images, geek jokes galore, and obvious fusion of the three points of the Wright/Pegg/Frost comic triangle. Seeing the duo on screen in Shaun also provokes a few nostalgic surges, that of a world still populated by flip phones where information on the outside world still comes from the good old BBC. That's it, it looks like Shaun of the Dead has become a nostalgic comedy, now announcing – with all the authority that the hindsight of two decades allows – the depressive hangover of the Last ad before the end of the world and the darkness of the retro ghosts of Last Night in Soho.

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Precisely, as long as we are in a boomer atmosphere, twenty years (a generation) later, we are relieved to see that Shaun of the Dead seems to resist the wear and tear of time very well. Having experienced the restored film in theaters with the presence of a young audience, the author of these lines even believes that the floodgates still work as well (the line “OK, gay” subtitled “OK, p *dé” as in 2004 even made the youth howl with laughter, as it turns out). Okay, now we're waiting for a release of Hot Fuzzundoubtedly the best film of the Wright gang (Soho being undoubtedly his best solo film), and a royal flop in France upon its release, like Scott Pilgrim after him. Hot Fuzz will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2027.