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Few things are better in life than a Wright/Pegg/Frost (I’ll throw in Jessica Stevenson for good measure) triple decker – the artistic entourage behind Shaun of the Dead and its worthy successor, Hot Fuzz.

Shaun of the Dead was something of a coming out party for the trio, as Americans were never really exposed to Spaced. In the midst of a pop-culture zombie revival (kick started by fellow British filmmaker, Danny Boyle), Shaun of the Dead came out of nowhere, starring two blokes Americans never heard of, pitching one of toughest kinds of movie to sell – a satirical horror flick.

The cinematic landscape is littered with corpses of films with similar ambitions, and with the zombie sub genre reaching the point of over saturation, the odds were stacked against Shaun of the Dead.

But director Edgar Wright and his comrades succeeded where others have failed, creating a brilliant collaboration that yielded arguably the best horror film since Wes Craven’s own satirical take on the genre, Scream.

Universal has done an admirable job of bringing the undead masterpiece stateside, with a Blu-ray worthy of its place in genre history.

It doesn’t have a large helping of new supplemental material not found in earlier DVD releases, but it does fit almost all existing content, along with Blu-ray specific features like U-Control and BD Live, onto one 50GB Blu-ray disc.

It’s almost good enough to make me wish I lived in a country that had cool pubs.

Americans lining up for a Black Friday sale.