Name: Every Reference in Shaun of the Dead | Vanity Fair
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Paris You're right and a love letter to pop culture.

We're going to walk you through every music, movies, TV show and celebrity reference in Shaun of the Dead.

First up, obviously Shaun of the Dead rhymes with Done.

Edgar Wright was a huge fan of George Romero's living Dead series.

But that's not the first reference, that ominous track that's pulled from the score of Donna today.

That's a play on this climactic moment, Day of the Dead, where we see this song Fast forward.

So these shots, which are now part of a garage signature style, are called Crash Zooms.

They're often used for something dramatic, like how Sam Raimi used them in Army of Darkness, another horror movie staple is a mirror scare.

It's framed exactly like this one from an American werewolf in London.

Next, listen to the way Pete answers his phone.

The exact same way in space Space is a surreal sitcom where Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright first Collaborated.

Okay, Now we're getting into some deep cuts.

Listen to this radio broadcast here that Shawn is ignoring six unexpectedly.

So this is actually referencing night of the living dead when a news broadcast says this coming from a meeting regarding the explosion?

Yes, yes, that was the subject of the meeting.

And then freeze on these headlines up there on the right.

That's actually a reference to this supposed to destroy insects and parasites.

It was said by the Department of Agriculture.

It's obscure seventies movie called Let Sleeping Corpses Lie where pesticides caused Zambia Next up song current craft 400 place Here It's by an artist called Zombie Nation This'll character Ash is the name of the main character.

Oh, please don't let them take me wing in 13 employees chewing gum here It's another shout out to space You think that I'm just gonna stand by and let you beat up my friend where you got another think coming?

Uh, we're gonna beat you up to because that you're right Said teens chewing gum look vaguely sinister.

If we can all pull together right here, we see the stores called Fourie Electric.

Ken for You was one of the main actors and Dawn of the Dead Wake up sucker with season Where bad guys That's exactly what we are.

Fast forward to thing a shot for shot match with this scene in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Moving forward restaurant Sean forgot to get a reservation to it's called Full Cheese that's named after Italian director Lucio Fulci, known for classic cult horror films.

Next, Ed asks, Clyde is an orangutan from the 1978 comedy Every Which Way But Loose This'll was actually Nick Frost Go to party trick.

This is an homage to the horror director John Carpenter style of shooting in movies like How The Wind Forward Okay, stop pizza shop Bubbs that's named after the Zombie and David, they call him Bub.

That's what the club fellas just call my father and then seriously, the name tag of this zombie, says Landis.

As in John Landis, he's the director of Michael Jackson's Thriller video and an American werewolf in London.

Mary and then Shaun and Ed go through a very eighties record collection.

Um, every Monday number, you impressing poeple, right?

Like this joke here is about the Stone Roses second album, which Simon Pegg noted he truly did like despite the album's lukewarm reception, the most on the nose Reference to George Romero is right.

We're coming over way coming to get you, Barbara.

Here's a busy for the British naturalist.

It's just like Pop Larkin in the British Siri's The darling buds of May.

Yeah, boy, just this argument about whether to call the undead zombies.

It's a joke about the fact that most zombie movies avoid using that term entirely in the living dead.

In 28 days Later, they're called the infected Cool, then, ah, horror moment things.

Bathroom scene plays out similarly to the iconic psycho shower scene car.

Sean Ben tells people, which is why the evil force says, moving ahead.

Frost gives us his best Matthew McConaughey, and in this shot where Sean enters cricket, bat first is what Edgar Wright called Temple of Doom style.

Thinking of zombies is actually a really zombie from 1941.

That yellow head zombie is tires from space.

That's a nod to the dartboard in the booth bar owner here thrown into the jukebox.

It happens the same actor over here in Brandon.

And then Sean wears a red tie just like Christopher Walken used a deer hunter.

Sean quotes British philosopher Bertrand Russell has booked from Russell once said, the only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation counts.

Is a celebrity appreciate the relevance of that now, Okay, when Shawn start shooting zombies, that's a callback in episode space for signing pegs.

Character plays too much Resident evil Don't sneak up on me like that.

Okay, and then Barbara Zombie bite it mirrors the mother's bite in the zombie comedy.

Dustin Hoffman holding the rifle in straw dolls, is gonna come back just like Eddie in Reservoir Dogs.

Mention was Just charge The Time to joke Heston.

And then in this wonderfully gory moment, David is torn to pieces that matches Captain Rhodes.

They flee to the basement just like the night of the living Dead and evil dead too.

And then they have to escape from the basement.

This matches the elevator in Day of the Dead.

Edgar Wright voices a newscaster who says Frankie Monkeys, which is the same outbreak in 28 days later.

Finally way fade out to Queens for my best friend, which includes the lyrics on That's every references.

Oh, wait, music at the end of the credits.

That's the same news act as in the mall in Dawn of the Dead.

 So that's every reference in Shaun of the Dead. 