SHAUN OF THE DEAD

(2004) dir. Edgar Wright; 99min.

FRIDAY, January 20th at 7 & 9:30pm

SATURDAY, January 21st at 7 & 9:30pm

SUNDAY, January 22nd at 3pm

There is something intrinsically ridiculous about zombie movies. No matter how scary they want to be, the spectacle of famished corpses lurching and groaning with their insatiable hunger for flesh and blood is worth at least a titter. The British horror comedy skillfully plays off that ridiculousness by implying that England may already be populated with the living dead, metaphorically speaking, that is. By treating the genre as a joke, the satire, whose title plays off the 1979 golden oldie "Dawn of the Dead," yields ironic dramatic dividends. As the number of zombies popping out of their graves multiplies exponentially, their population density on the streets of North London becomes increasingly creepy. — NYT