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‘Shaun of the Dead’ Oral History: Zombie Trust Exercises, Getting Egged on Set, and Helen Mirren’s Unforgettable Turndown

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and more look back on 'Shaun of the Dead' and its 20th anniversary in IndieWire's wide-ranging oral history.

One episode, “Art,” saw Pegg’s character Tim stay up all night playing “Resident Evil” until he starts to hallucinate that zombies are invading his flat. The film was far from your average zombie horror, being a story fundamentally about friendship, love, growing up, moving on and finding connection in an increasingly lonely world. He’s always been really interested in diegetic sound, so the actors responding to noises within the film and you can see the progression from this to “Baby Driver.” We wrote a letter to Brian May basically begging him to use it and asking that he wouldn’t charge us through the roof: he was really lovely about it.

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