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Shaun of the Dead

2004 · directed by Edgar Wright · 99 min · R
25,526 feet · Prominence
347th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

Lifetime worldwide gross $39m, re-releases included; about $69m in 2026 money.

Rank3,613 of 11,051In 200496 of 256

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics84 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy72

Judged directly: Defined the zom-com; endlessly quoted.

Verdict72 of 100IMDb7.8 from 630kWikipedia42k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 264 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 51 praise 84 legacy 72averages 69, placing it at25,526 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Kate Ashfield▲ Lucy Davis

In these careers — elevation for this film

Simon Pegg20,213 ftNick Frost19,400 ftBill Nighy18,189 ftKate Ashfield18,177 ftPenelope Wilton17,981 ftLucy Davis17,946 ftMartin Freeman17,657 ftRafe Spall17,649 ftMark Gatiss17,640 ft