The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

I always loved horror and that's sort of the reason we decided to make the film. We were nourished on those sorts of films, so it was a labor of love.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

We wanted the humor to happen as a result of the zombies, you know? Like the humor being a result of their presence, rather than them being funny.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

It's the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that's what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

But I think there's plenty of British comedy that Americans have never seen that they would like but sometimes things just get through.