“Okay. But dogs can look up.” We’re grabbing a nice cold pint and waiting for all this to blow over by spending our HalloRe’ewind episode with Edgar Wright’s beloved Brit rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.

Developmentally-arrested 29-year-old electrical store employee Shaun’s slacker lifestyle, mostly spent whiling away his nights with crass childhood friend Ed in the local pub, sees his girlfriend Liz give him the boot at a most inopportune moment - the advent of a zombie apocalypse that seems only slightly more grim and shambling than your average workday in North London. Armed only with a box of 12” records, a child-sized cricket bat, and his flatmate’s ‘borrowed’ Renault Megane, Shaun tries to rise to the occasion to bring Ed, Liz, and his mum to an impenetrable fortress (which is also, coincidentally, his idea of a romantic nightspot) …his local pub.

Capitalising on the cult success of Channel 4’s Spaced, director Wright and star/co-writer Simon Pegg hoped to break a streak of poor quality TV-to-film transitions from British comedy stars, by infusing the movie with their genuine love for classic 70s/80s zombie fare. Matt and Devlin discuss the film’s part in the 2000s zombie renaissance and the British film industry’s brief hot streak, and talk influences, ripoffs, zombies-as-allegory, and other pearls of wisdom we gleaned from a Guinness Extra Cold beermat.

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As we are still on a short break and preparing our Halloween 2024 instalment we thought we would celebrate the OG for the podcast...Halloween III: Season of the Witch as a LATE RETRURN FEE, enjoy reliving the horror and we will see you next week with a brand new episode!

BOO! It’s Devlin’s favourite time of year, and he’s selected the strange outlier of the Halloween franchise, 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. A near-catatonic patient is brutally killed on Dr Dan Challis’ (Tom Atkins) shift, and the mysterious assailant sets himself ablaze. Desperate to make sense of this, Dan accompanies the murdered man’s daughter to the factory of Conal Cochrane (Dan O’Herlihy), Halloween mask entrepreneur and small-town philanthropist, to investigate. Robots full of lemon curd, drunk doctoring, stolen 'henge', and an advertising jingle that’ll burrow in to your head like a tonne of bugs – join Gali, Devlin and Rewind Movie Podcast debutant Patrick to see if we’re in for a treat, or a trick (like, say, sticky toilet paper, or the Dead Dwarf Gag).

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“The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all.” We’re heading to the murky hinterland of Edinburgh with Danny Boyle’s visceral 1996 sophomore feature Trainspotting.

Erudite, sallow twenty-something Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) has chosen not to choose life - he’s chosen something else. Heroin. He injects his days away at the den of his dealer, Mother Superior (Peter Mullan), with motormouthed James Bond aficionado Sick Boy (Johnny Lee Miller), and hard-luck idiot Spud (Ewan Bremner) - much to the dismay of his ball of lager-swilling machismo mate Begbie (Robert Carlyle), and the straight-laced Tommy (Kevin McKIdd). As Renton’s efforts to kick his habit lurch between success and failure, the unsustainable pursuit of the next high draws him, and everyone around him, into an increasingly desperate stew of violence and sickness.

A defining totem of the brief, cringeworthily christened Cool Britannia era, which saw filmmakers, writers, artists and musicians benefit from a sense of renewed ambition as the financially straitened 1980s gave way to the optimistic 1990s, it’s reputation persists as a punky hit with a killer soundtrack and an iconic poster that flew out of the doors of Athena’s in regional shopping centres across the country. But is that reputation at odds with the dour, challenging material? Join Gali, Devli, Patrick and Matt as they dive into a massive, pristine convenience with brilliant gold taps, a seat carved from ebony, and a cistern full of Chanel No. 5.

If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com. For specially designed merchandise, movie shirts, posters, and our famous Bingo Trope Totes and a poster based on this week’s episode cover image, head to DevlinDoesDrawing on Teemill.

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