What if the apocalypse wasn't the end of the world, but simply the end of your twenties? Before the dead began to walk, Shaun was already one of them—shuffling through a life on autopilot. This is the foundational genius of *Shaun of the Dead*. Pitched as a "romantic comedy with zombies," the film uses the undead apocalypse not as a gimmick, but as a scalpel-sharp metaphor for a life stuck in n...
