Personally I prefer 10 Things I Hate About You, as far as Shakespeare goes.

So what this context means in relation to Shaun Of The Dead is that after aeons of British cinema doing Cliff Richie doing shite gangster films what in themselves led to even more, even shiteier gangster flicks, and everyone calling each other Cahnt, well, finally there's a good one.

But there's more up-to-date concerns on account of the UK film industry is falling through its own guts as we type, and will eventually be shat out and will look up at the great hairy rectum above it and say "what the fuck happened, man?" So this is why maybe all the coverage of Shaun Of The Dead is a good thing. Maybe some folks will make a few more good films, now that it's obvious we like ones that are original on occasion, and have nothing to do with gangsters or with Hugh Grant learning a lesson about the sexing.

Because this Shaun Of The Dead carry-on is very very good indeed.

It's a comedy-horror type affair, but come back, because it's not one little bit like Wes Craven's The Scream (itself based on an Edvard Munch painting). This one here goes so far as to have the jokes actually mean something in and of themselves, and don't just rely on the viewer's knowledge of Zombie Creeping Flesh.

If you have some knowledge of Zombie Creeping Flesh, though, don't worry that it's gonna be wasted. You can still compare this to Zombie Creeping Flesh for example, and can say "Well, as zombie films go, it's a damn site better than Zombie Creeping Flesh."

And if you like the Romero films, like how he has the guts and the innards but also the Social Commentary, like maybe a loose intestine which has a bit of the New York Post sticking to it, then you'll find more of that kind of malarkey in here than you will in Dawn Of The Dead 2004, or D2K4 as you might wanna call it.

Because Shaun Of The Dead also has plenty of the social commentary, like how London is filled with zombies anyway, like how supermarkets are filled with people who are treated like they don't have a brain anyway, and other assorted social comments. Maybe there'll be a social commentary track on the D2K4 DVD, maybe that'll redress the balance, a balance that is, at present, woefully naked.