Shaun of the Dead

 

By Chris Ryall & Zach Howard (Titan Books)
ISBN: 1-84576-160-X

This eminently readable adaptation of the surprise hit ROMantic ZOMbie COMedy movie is remarkably faithful to the source material, both in staging and in its prodigiously four-letter expletive enhanced script – so parents take note – and is therefore a sharp, blackly humorous horror tale about the bonds of friendship and the deep love of a man for his local (that’s a favoured public house, for overseas readers or natives of restricted social cognizance).

Funny, thrilling and spooky by turns, Ryall’s dialogue adapted from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s original script, is complimented by Howard’s stylish pictures which never overwhelm the wit with gore and action.

A book well worth hunting down.

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