Bonus Episode - 6 Feet Deeper: Shaun of the Dead
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Welcome To Horror - 6 Feet Deeper: “Shaun of the Dead” Here’s a little bonus episode from Adam of facts and things that we didn’t quite get round to on our main episode on Shaun of the Dead. He apologises in advance for over use of the word “fantastic”, and warns that you should definitely listen to our main episode first, as this is a collection of random stuff that was thrown up whilst researching the film. This may become a semi-regular addition to the main show in those circumstances that we have too much information to get through on an episode, so hope you enjoy this little transmission from the Welcome To Horror Fact Library.
You've got red on you.
Famous lines
- "A romantic comedy. With zombies."
- "Cornetto."— Ed
- "Sort your fucking life out, mate!"— Pete
- "Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?"— Ed
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AdamGood evening and welcome to Horror.
AdamI'm Adam.
AdamOh, it's just me actually.
AdamI'm sitting here in the Welcome to Horror Fact library where we keep all the notes after all of our shows with all the fascinating things that we've recorded ready to let you know on the show and then we just don't get round to because we're too busy talking and enjoying ourselves and going, wasn't that bit good.
AdamSo this is what could be the first of a series of little occasional bonus episodes in which we go through stuff that we didn't get round to on the main show.
AdamWe're kicking off today with the follow-up to Shaun of the Dead because there were plenty of bits and pieces that we didn't get round to that you may be fascinated to know, or alternately, you may be bored stiff, but there we go.
AdamWe're going to call this Welcome to Horror Six Feet Deeper.
AdamSo, kicking right off, one of the main things that a lot of people know from Shaun of the Dead is that there is a sequence in the film whereby Nick Frost's character Ed tells Shaun his plans for the following day, and this basically is a rundown of the action for the remainder of the film.
AdamSo the plan, the day drinking plan is have a Bloody Mary first thing, which is a reference to the checkout girl in the garden who is the zombie checkout girl in the garden who is called Mary.
AdamThen a bite at the King's Head, so Philip, Shaun's stepfather, the king, is bitten by a zombie.
AdamA couple at the Little Princess, which is when they rescue Diane and David, the couple who live with Liz, the princess.
AdamStagger back here, impersonating zombies to make it to the Winchester.
AdamBang, back of the bar for shots, fending off the zombies with a gun.
AdamThat is finally rounded off with, how's that for a nice slice of fried gold, which is just an expression that Nick Frost has used and has now entered the common lexicon thanks to Shaun of the Dead.
AdamInterestingly, there is even more foreshadowing at a certain point when Pete is arguing with Shaun and Ed, he tells Ed that he should go and live in the shed, which is obviously where Ed ends up.
AdamAnd Ed says next time I see him, he's dead, and the next time he sees Pete, yes he is, he's dead.
AdamPete, as played by Peter Serafinowicz, does receive a phone call from someone called Dom.
AdamAnd that is actually a reference to Spaced where Peter Serafinowicz's character Dwayne Benzy also receives a phone call from someone called Dom.
AdamThis itself is actually a reference to the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs, Nice Guy Eddie is taking a phone call from someone unseen called Dom.
AdamSo at that point we're getting a bit too a bit too far down the references, it's references all the way.
AdamAnother piece of lore from the background of the making of Spaced is that Big Al says that dogs can't look up, and this is actually something that Nick Frost said when they were attempting to get some footage of Colin the dog for Spaced.
AdamI believe it comes up on one of the commentaries and then low and behold it turns up as part of the lore of Shaun of the Dead as well.
AdamThe film also has a number of zombie film references, none of them are too outlandish to make things make sense, but they're just there, those tiny little bits so that people can spot them.
AdamFor example, there's we're coming to get you Barbara, which is one of the first lines from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
AdamSean's colleague Ash is not in today, possibly a reference to Ash from the Evil Dead films.
AdamAnd Sean works at Forry Electrics, this is a reference to the actor Ken Foree who plays Peter in Dawn of the Dead, he's also in The Devil's Rejects from Beyond, fantastic actor.
AdamAnd the restaurant that Sean tries to book for him and Liz is called Fulci's, this is in homage to Lucio Fulci, the director of Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond and City of the Living Dead amongst many other fantastic films.
AdamInterestingly enough, when Liz is talking to Sean, she says, what's that place that does all the fish, if you pause the film and look, the listing in the phone directory is Fulci's restaurant, the place that does all the fish.
AdamThe website Spaced Out was a forum online that the makers of Shaun of the Dead recruited Spaced fans to come and fill out the numbers as zombies and they were all paid a pound a day, but the opportunity to be in Shaun of the Dead, I'd be paying them.
AdamThe excellent score that has finally seen release recently was by Daniel Mudford and Pete Woodhead, they were a part of a band called the Sons of Silence who again had tracks on the soundtrack to Spaced.
AdamI think I'll also take an opportunity to look at some of the cast members, as we'll be doing the full Cornetto trilogy, I think that we'll be sticking strictly to actors who are only appearing in Shaun of the Dead.
AdamSo obviously you've got Liz played by Kate Ashfield, who is actually in Guest House Paradiso with Bill Nighy and Simon Pegg.
AdamAnd rather memorably in that, she's also Carol in a film called Christy Malory's Own Double Entry, which if you've not seen or not heard of, do seek it out, it is a very, very good film.
AdamBasically the premise of it is that there's a guy who's doing an accountancy course and they teach him about double entry, profit and loss, which he then starts applying to real life, which starts off as man nearly runs me over, loss, I key his car, gain.
AdamBut unfortunately, as that takes a more existential sort of turn, it's then mum's died, I'll poison most of London.
AdamSo it sort of works its way through, but it is a genuinely, genuinely good film and just a film that sort of not enough people know.
AdamShe's in Byzantium, she's in The War Zone, which is a fucking tough watch.
AdamBut she also appeared in Fist of Fun on the TV, and Midsomer Murders, which is now basically the British equivalent of.
AdamMurder She Wrote in that pretty much every single actor has appeared, every single British actor has appeared in Midsomer Murders at some point.
AdamYou've also got Lucy Davis as Diane, now she is the daughter of the stand-up comedian Jasper Carrot.
AdamShe's in Sex Lives of the Potato Men, she's in Wonder Woman, but obviously mostly she is known as Dawn in The Office, that's the English version obviously, and as Hilda in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
AdamShe's also been in Black Books, which again, if you enjoy Shaun of the Dead and you enjoy Spaced, if you've not aware of Black Books, go and seek that out because it is a fantastic show.
AdamShe was in, she was in The Detective, she was in Blue Heaven, Frank Skinner's sitcom, The Bill, which is second in line to Midsomer Murders as being a show that every British actor's ever been in.
AdamAlso you've got Dylan Moran who played David, who's Bernard Black, and he's the main character in Black Books along with Tamzin Greg and Bill Bailey, and again, like I say, if that's not a film you, if that's not a program that you've seen, seek it out immediately because it is fantastic.
AdamThere was a weird period where for some reason he was considered something of a leading man, so he was in a sitcom called How Do You Want Me, he was in a, he was in a film with Michael Caine called The Actors, he's in Notting Hill, he was in Run Fat Boy Run with Simon Pegg.
AdamSo again, well worth checking out the back catalog, but also just his stand-up is fantastic.
AdamObviously, you've got the fantastic Jessica Hynes, or Jessica Stevenson as she was when Shaun of the Dead was made, again from Spaced, she was in Asylum with Simon Pegg and directed by Edgar Wright.
AdamShe also appeared in Mash and Peas, Lucas and Williams original show, which was directed by some parts of which were directed by Edgar Wright.
AdamShe's written and directed The Fight, she's in Burke and Hare with Simon Pegg, Son of Rambow, sees them, the Bridget Jones films, baby the Baby of Mason.
AdamShe was Cheryl in The Royle Family and Old Myers in The Witchfinder.
AdamNow, The Witchfinder was a six-part series, any folk horror fans or whatever, you should seek that out if you did not see it because it was very, very good.
AdamShe was Joan Redfern in Doctor Who, Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and then Verity Newman in Doctor Who, The End of Time.
AdamShe's appeared in Inside Number Nine, a random act of kindness, she was in Years and Years, 2012 and its follow-up W1A, she was in Hang-Ups, there she goes, Alexis Sales Merry Go Round, she too appeared in Black Books.
AdamShe's been in the rebooted Crystal Maze, Harry Enfield and Chums, Armstrong and Miller, a natural Axe, the remake of Randle and Hopkirk, just tons and tons of stuff.
AdamAnd yeah, again, the, you know, Spaced is as we said on the main program, Shaun of the Dead is not the Spaced film because you don't have Jessica Stevenson's input there, which is half of what makes Spaced so great.
AdamYou've also got the landlord of the Winchester, John is a stuntman called Steve Emerson.
Adamwho's been in loads of Bond films, Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, Octopussy, The World Is Not Enough.
AdamHe was in Batman, he was in Last Night in Soho, another Edgar Wright, he was in the 2010 Wolfman, he's in the Harry Potter films.
AdamThe Assassination Bureau, Krull, Willow, Were Eagles Dare, Carry On Cowboy, and he was in Doctor Who the Macra Terror and the War Games, the Claws of Axos, Frontios and Revelation of the Daleks.
AdamCatweazle, Doomwatch, Callan, and loads of other stuff, he also makes an appearance in the Danger 50,000 Zombies extra that appears on the DVD of Nick Frost's Danger 50,000 Volts.
AdamShaun's mum, Barbara, played by Penelope Wilton, who is again another main stay of British comedy, mostly from the 80s, she was Ann Bryce in 27 episodes of Ever Decreasing Circles.
AdamAgain, another Doctor Who connection, she was Harriet Jones, the Prime Minister, the the the well, the MP for Flydown North, then the Prime Minister, then the ex-Prime Minister, here in several episodes of that.
AdamShe was Homily in The Borrowers, she was in Bob and Rose.
AdamFilm wise, she was in Clockwise with John Cleese, Operation Mincemeat, she's in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and is married to Bill Nighy in those films as well.
AdamShe's in The History Boys, she's in Pride and Prejudice, and is again, just one of those familiar faces who thankfully they picked up on because she is brilliant in the role.
AdamAs mentioned earlier, you've got Tamsin Greig, she's one of the, she's one of the other the alternate group who are who are working their way through the apocalypse with Jessica Stevenson.
AdamAs I said, she's in, she's one of the main three characters in Black Books, she was in the fantastic Friday Night Dinner, Green Wing, Doctor Who the long game, Inside Number Nine the last gasp.
AdamNeverwhere, Neil Gaiman's first thing for television, episodes, World of Pub, Blue Heaven, lots of these things, and also is the narrator of the children's cartoon Love Monster.
AdamAlso part of that team was obviously Matt Lucas, obviously Lucas and Williams did Little Britain for 23 episodes.
AdamHe was Nardole in 15 episodes of Doctor Who, the excellent Rock Profiles.
AdamMash and Peas, which was, as I say, directed by Edgar Wright.
AdamHe's in the latest Wonka, Willy Wonka movie, Harry Hill movie, Plunkett and Macleane, also just again, one of those people who just runs through British comedy with stuff that you either are familiar with or should go and seek out right now.
AdamLike Shooting Stars, Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang Bang, it's Reeves and Mortimer.
AdamFun at the Funeral Parlour, Catterick, Vic and Bob's Big Night Out, Look Around You, Monkey Trousers.
AdamLife of Rock with Brian Pern, Bernard and his characters are Bernard Chumley.
AdamSunny Side Farm, Barking.
AdamABCD a rock opera, and also in the video for Country House by Blur and I'm with Stupid by the Pet Shop Boys.
AdamOne final thing that I cannot confirm or deny is that I've always just assumed that the name of the pub, The Winchester, is a reference to the club that Arthur Daley used to drink in Minder, but I've never seen anyone mention that, so that might be just something I'm making up.
AdamWho knows, that could be an absolute slap in the face to the makers of Shaun of the Dead.
AdamBut there we go.
AdamAnd yeah, so that's just some little bits and pieces, hope you enjoyed that.
AdamIf not, it was over quite quick.
AdamSo that'll be this could be something that we do on a more regular basis if we get, as I say, sometimes we just throw up lots of research and it just doesn't get around to on the main show, other times we are pulling teeth to try and talk about things, so that won't be something that happens for every episode.
AdamAs I say, hope you've enjoyed that.
AdamIf you have enjoyed that, I'm Adam for Welcome to Horror, if you hadn't enjoyed that, I am not Adam from not Welcome to Horror, and I bid you a good night.
AdamGood night.
