CREDITS SHAUN OF THE DEAD, 2004 dir: Edgar Wright Simon Pegg Kate Ashfield Nick Frost Lucy Davis Dylan Moran Penelope Wilton Bill Nighy

“I don't think I have it in me to shoot my Mum, my flatmate, my stepdad and my girlfriend all at the same night. ”

Hold on! A British comedy that's (a) smart, (b) not written by Richard Curtis and (c) funny? Now that came as a surprise. Based on the simplest of premises: In a city packed with blank-eyed wage slaves and whacked-out clubheads, how long would it take us to notice the arrival of George A Romero's lumbering, flesh-chomping dead?

It takes Shaun (Simon Pegg) quite a while, what with placating his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), defending his amiably slobby best mate Ed (Nick Frost) and pleasing his parents (the priceless Penelope Wilton and Bill Nighy).

Romero seems happy with the homage. Both writer-director Wright and star Pegg have been rewarded with zombie cameos in his latest, Land of the Dead.

'Shaun of the Dead: Shaun's flat: 83 Nelson Road, Weston Park

Shaun's neighbourhood is north London, around Crouch End, where his flat is 83 Nelson Road at Weston Park, N8. Across the road, the local grocery store, where Shaun fails to notice anything, um, out of the ordinary, is Weston Park Grocery, 96 Weston Park. Shaun works in an electronics store on High Road, North Finchley, and his parents live at 37 Abbots Gardens, East Finchley.

'Shaun of the Dead: zombies in the grocery store: Weston park Grocery, Weston Park

Odd, then, that he has such a trek down to his beloved local boozer, 'The Winchester Arms'. The pub is way across the city, south of the Thames, in New Cross Gate. It's the Duke of Albany, 39 Monson Road at Barlborough Street, SE14. Unfortunately, zombies, unlike black cabs, do go south of the river.

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