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Episode 77: Shaun Of The Dead
We’re back with the first offering of this year’s SPOOKY SZN series! This week, we’re talking about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2004 horror comedy “Shaun Of The Dead”! The first film of the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, “Shaun Of The Dead” is a prime example of transnational comedy, great satire, incredible writing and direction, outstanding visual comedy and editing, and was not only critically and commercially successful but is considered a cult classic and one of the best zombie films ever. With a perfect runtime, great pacing, surprisingly touching moments, and some big laughs… this one is very rewatchable, has aged (relatively well), and is so much fun.
We break down the plot of the film, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s careers, what we love about “Shaun Of The Dead” and the following “Cornetto” films, unpack some of the amazing visual comedy and editing, and talk about the rise and fall of zombie movies in general. We also share some of our favourite zombie films including “28 Days Later”, “Train To Busan”, and Zack Snyder’s “Dawn Of The Dead”, gush about the wave of zombie films in the early aughts before the genre ran itself kind of dry, lament the Hollywood remake of foreign films in the era of subtitles, and discuss how “Shaun Of The Dead” bridged British and American comedy in the perfect way.
Following our discussion about “Shaun Of The Dead”, we get into a long conversation about Andrew Dominik’s new film “Blonde” and the film’s response, entitlement in consumer culture, and the recent rise of an unwillingness to have respectful discourse in society. We question why anyone would spend so much time crusading online against something that they dislike, what happened to respectfully agreeing to disagree, and why someone would “review bomb” a film. This leads to a conversation about the dangers of giving the consumer too much power, how this attitude hurts independent non-franchise and experimental filmmaking, the pratfalls of ignoring the hard topics in art and culture, historical erasure, and where this road ultimately leads.
And finally, we chat about the new monstrous addition to the MCU in Michael Giacchino’s “Werewolf By Night”, the Marvel Monsters, and PALMREADER smacks his knee and bleeds all over himself. Wouldn’t be a horror pod without some gore.
Next week? We’re heading into the woods with a camcorder to record a documentary about a witch that probably doesn’t exist… sounds easy, right? We're revisiting what many consider to be the original found footage nightmare fuel, “The Blair Witch Project”.
CHECK OUT THE NEW ANXIETY WEEKEND ALBUM “ON INFINITE REPEAT”:
https://soundcloud.com/cemetery_sound/sets/anxiety-weekend-on-infinite-repeat?si=0f36c3cd5ebb4603b86fcd4cc91a8d2e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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By Cemetery SoundWe’re back with the first offering of this year’s SPOOKY SZN series! This week, we’re talking about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2004 horror comedy “Shaun Of The Dead”! The first film of the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, “Shaun Of The Dead” is a prime example of transnational comedy, great satire, incredible writing and direction, outstanding visual comedy and editing, and was not only critically and commercially successful but is considered a cult classic and one of the best zombie films ever. With a perfect runtime, great pacing, surprisingly touching moments, and some big laughs… this one is very rewatchable, has aged (relatively well), and is so much fun.
We break down the plot of the film, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s careers, what we love about “Shaun Of The Dead” and the following “Cornetto” films, unpack some of the amazing visual comedy and editing, and talk about the rise and fall of zombie movies in general. We also share some of our favourite zombie films including “28 Days Later”, “Train To Busan”, and Zack Snyder’s “Dawn Of The Dead”, gush about the wave of zombie films in the early aughts before the genre ran itself kind of dry, lament the Hollywood remake of foreign films in the era of subtitles, and discuss how “Shaun Of The Dead” bridged British and American comedy in the perfect way.
Following our discussion about “Shaun Of The Dead”, we get into a long conversation about Andrew Dominik’s new film “Blonde” and the film’s response, entitlement in consumer culture, and the recent rise of an unwillingness to have respectful discourse in society. We question why anyone would spend so much time crusading online against something that they dislike, what happened to respectfully agreeing to disagree, and why someone would “review bomb” a film. This leads to a conversation about the dangers of giving the consumer too much power, how this attitude hurts independent non-franchise and experimental filmmaking, the pratfalls of ignoring the hard topics in art and culture, historical erasure, and where this road ultimately leads.
And finally, we chat about the new monstrous addition to the MCU in Michael Giacchino’s “Werewolf By Night”, the Marvel Monsters, and PALMREADER smacks his knee and bleeds all over himself. Wouldn’t be a horror pod without some gore.
Next week? We’re heading into the woods with a camcorder to record a documentary about a witch that probably doesn’t exist… sounds easy, right? We're revisiting what many consider to be the original found footage nightmare fuel, “The Blair Witch Project”.
CHECK OUT THE NEW ANXIETY WEEKEND ALBUM “ON INFINITE REPEAT”:
https://soundcloud.com/cemetery_sound/sets/anxiety-weekend-on-infinite-repeat?si=0f36c3cd5ebb4603b86fcd4cc91a8d2e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Twitter: @plmrdr @otismorrisdude
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