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Zombies of Cockneys vs Zombies

FilmUndead2010 to today

Cockneys vs Zombies is a British comedy in which an outbreak starts on an East End building site and a gang of amateur robbers goes to save a care home. The zombies are released from a seventeenth-century vault. The film followed Shaun of the Dead's success as a British zombie comedy.12

Battle it
First appeared
2012
Released 2012
Source work
Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
Matthias Hoene
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Never explained
Builders break into a catacomb sealed in 1666 on the orders of Charles II and wake two zombies.
How you become one
A bite.
Weak spots
  • shot to the head (unless the skull has a metal plate)
  • explosives

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2012

Released 2012

field notes

What the sources say

1

Set in London's East End12

2

Bank robbers set out to rescue their grandfather and his friends from a retirement home12

3

One zombie survives a head shot because of a metal plate in its skull and has to be blown up12

4

The last film roles of Richard Briers and Honor Blackman12

5

Reviews were mostly positive12

Sources

  1. Cockneys vs Zombies - Wikipedia
  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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