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 and the video game "Resident Evil 2", hallucinates that he is fighting off a zombie invasion. Having discovered a mutual appreciation for Romero's "Dead" trilogy, they decided to write their own zombie movie. "Spaced" was to be a big influence on the making of "Shaun of the Dead", as it was directed by Wright in a similar style, and featured many of the same cast and crew in minor and major roles. Nick Frost, who played Mike in "Spaced", has a starring role in "Shaun of the Dead" as Ed. Peter Serafinowicz and Julia Deakinwho played Duane Benzie and Marsha