Valentine’s Day: 15 greatest horror movies to get you through the holiday

By Devin Shea | Jan 31, 2019

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 01: Director Edgar Wright (L) and Anthony Breznican, Senior Writer Entertainment Weekly, attend the screening of 'Shaun of the Dead' during the Entertainment Weekly CapeTown Film Festival Presented By The American Cinematheque & Sponsored By TNT's "Falling Skies" at the Egyptian Theatre on May 1, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly) /

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)

While some of you may think that the British classic zombie film Shaun of the Dead does not belong on a Valentine’s Day horror movies list, I can assure you that it most certainly does.

The entire film revolves around one flaky gentleman who, along with his lazy roommate, struggles to save his girlfriend (or EX-girlfriend, rather) during a sudden zombie apocalypse. Even though she broke up with him the night before for his complacency, lack of ambition and unwillingness to go anywhere but The Winchester, he ventures out into a sea of the undead to retrieve her and take her to…well, The Winchester.

This film was written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pee and directed by Wright. It stars Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Dylan Moran and Lucy Davis. Davis is a familiar face lately as the adorable Aunt HIlda in the wildly successful Netflix original Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

What’s really cool about this film is that it also serves as a mini reunion for the cast of Spaced, a funny British series in the early 2000’s starring Pegg and Frost. Shaun of the Dead serves as a good balance between hilarity, gore, serious moments and survival. It is a well-rounded Valentine’s Day horror film.

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