Shaun of the Dead

Director: Edgar Wright, Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfeild, 1h 39m, R

The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse. “The zombie-movie genre already has some wink-wink funny entries, but this U.K. smash hit, written by Pegg and Wright, takes the prize. It’s a bloody hoot.” —Newsweek