20 Years Later, Shaun of the Dead's 'Mary' Backstory Is Still the Darkest Part of the Cornetto Trilogy

[Robert Wood]

Despite her relatively small role in Shaun of the Dead, the zombie known as 'Mary' has the darkest story in not just the movie, but the entire Cornetto Trilogy. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost's Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy (aka the Cornetto Trilogy) is a comedy masterwork, beginning in 2004 with the rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead. Now twenty years old, many fans still don't know that Shaun and Ed's first zombie antagonist has a chilling backstory.

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