Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead is the greatest horror comedy ever made — a film that works perfectly as both a zombie movie and a British romantic comedy about a man-child forced to grow up. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's chemistry is bulletproof, Wright's visual comedy and editing rhythms are virtuosic, and the film's genuine emotional moments — Shaun's mother's death, the Winchester cellar standoff — hit with surprising force. The screenplay is a marvel of foreshadowing and Chekhov's guns. Wright proved that you could make a film that was simultaneously hilarious and horrifying without cheating either genre.