Shaun of the Dead (2004)

I was tied up handling The Enigma, so I didn't get out to see this one.

The Flower (who had watched the whole Cornetto trilogy on her birthday last year), and especially The Boy were struck by how much this was just a straight-up zombie flick. I pointed out that Hot Fuzz is also pretty striaght, and what you would get if Michael Bay directed The Wicker Man. The World's End is pretty much pub-crawl-meets-The-Stepford-Wives, with an almost "Plan 9" climax and a "Mad Max" stinger.

They took The Barbarienne, which was nice. She's a bit of a scaredy-cat—she does not join us for Knott's Halloween Haunt—but she did all right, apparently, except for the part where Shaun's mom dies. (This is a button with her: Moms dying. Every now and again I'll start to play "Mother's Last Farewell Kiss" and, well, that's always a mistake.) Anyway, she liked it, and her older siblings didn't object to bringing her along the next week for Ghostbusters, so that's good.