Shaun of the Dead responded to a casting call organised through a fan website. Shaun's place of work is an actual electrical appliances shop located at Tally Ho, North Finchley. The scenes filmed in and around the "Winchester Tavern" pub were shot at the "Duke of Albany" pub, 39 Monson Road, New Cross, South London – a three-story Victorian pub. It was turned into flats in 2008. In the United Kingdom, "Shaun of the Dead" took £1.6 million at 366 cinemas on its opening weekend and netted £6.4 million by mid-May. In its opening weekend in the United States, "Shaun of the Dead" earned
The quick and the dead (idiom) Book of Mormon (first published in 1830), refers to "...the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead". The use of the word "quick" in this context is an archaic one. Here, the word specifically means "living" or "alive" (a meaning still retained in the "quick" of the fingernails, and in the idiom quickening, as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt). Another common phrase, "cut to the quick", literally means cut through the dead, unfeeling layers of the skin to the living, sensitive tissues below. Quicksilver, an old name for the liquid metal mercury, refers to the