"This film is certified 18, which means that, while it may be of an adult nature, it may also be extremely infantile. Viewers are warned of poor jokes, bad production values, and frequently painful acting."
A very honest and accurate description of Edgar Wright's film debut. "Dead Right" is a low-budget (or more precisely no-budget) forty-minute crime-horror-action comedy that suffers from all of the above. Filmed on weekends over the whole year on VHS, it was written, directed and edited by then-eighteen-year-old Edgar Wright, who entrusted the roles to his amateur friends. But despite all the objective flaws, this film already shows Wright's great talent for screenwriting and directing, a specific sense of humor and a subtle feel for details. There's also Wright's distinctive ability to successfully combine multiple genres, not just into the same film, but into the same scene, which will make him famous a decade later in the "Shaun of the Dead", "Hot Fuzz" and "The World's End" trilogy. What's more, "Hot Fuzz" was in a way derived from this film, with which it shares many qualities, including some scenes. If you love Wright, don't miss this one.
7/10
