SIMON PEGG: Although we're not, strictly speaking, we're not actually the first romantic zombie comedy because I mean Brain Dead  there was a romance in there. Return of the Living Dead Part III is a bit of a love story.

EDGAR WRIGHT: But the difference is, what we wanted to do with this which hadn't really been done before particularly, was the idea of having a horror comedy which doesn't really feature any horror until like minute 30. Whereas with maybe like American Werewolf in London, kind of like the shit starts happening about 7 minutes in. Brain Dead has a prologue which is extremely violent. We loved the idea of easing you into a false sense of security. It's actually kind of nice watching it with audiences, because they get into it almost to the point where they've forgotten that there are zombies about to come. So kind of having that first half hour with no zombies is something that we really wanted to do, and try and pull off, really.