Shaun of the Dead with his stepfather Philip, and his girlfriend Liz breaks up with him, unhappy they spend every evening at his local pub, the Winchester. After the break-up, Shaun drowns his sorrows there with his housemate and best friend Ed. At home, their housemate Pete, complaining of a bite wound from a mugger, berates Shaun to get his life together. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London, but Shaun and Ed are slow to notice until they encounter two zombies in their garden and kill them with blows to the head. They form a plan to rescue Shaun's mother, Barbara, and
Shaun of the Dead enemy graveyard. Prominent are many references to George A. Romero's earlier "Dead" films ("Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", and "Day of the Dead", with "Dawn" in particular being referenced). The 2010 Cuban film "Juan of the Dead" and the 2013 Singaporean film "Hsien of the Dead" were inspired by "Shaun of the Dead". The film's score by Pete Woodhead and Daniel Mudford is a pastiche of Italian zombie film soundtracks by artists like Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. It also uses many musical cues from the original "Dawn of the Dead" that were originally culled by George