Of all the films I’m looking forward to this year, there’s one that I’m currently chomping on brains at the bit to see; Shaun of the Dead.

I’ve mentioned it before but as it’s released in a couple of weeks, it’s worth mentioning again. It’s a British comedy zombie film brought to you by the people who made the marvellous surreal Channel 4 sitcom Spaced.

I’ve just finished watching both series of Spaced again and had fogotten quite how good it was. There’s a first series episode called “Art” (guest starring Paul Kaye and David Walliams) which has plenty of references to zombie culture (namely Resident Evil video games, Evil Dead, the George Romero Dead Trilogy) and gives a lot of hope that the film is going to be very funny.

There’s quite a good marketing campaign in London at the moment (can’t speak about the rest of the country) with appropriately tailored posters for the film appearing on the tube (a picture of which is at Annie Mole’s blog) and phone boxes around the capital. The second, very amusing, trailer has been released today and you can watch it here here.

I’m off to polish my shotgun in anticipation.