The Tools You Need to Be an Edgar Wright Fan

The pop culture references in the work of Edgar Wright are inescapable, ranging from the fact Tim Bisley, Simon Pegg's character in Spaced is named after 2000 A.D. comic artist Simon Bisley, to the way that Wright's trailer contribution to Grindhouse is a tribute to Jorge Grau's The Living Dead in Manchester Morgue. Wright's films and projects are about slackers that get to live out their fantasies through their own obscure language of Michael Bay movies and Star Wars-prequel-related meltdowns. Normies in the film universe, as in real life, just don't get it. This often leads our nerdy heroes to defend their cult fetishes as guilty pleasures to be worn on the characters' sleeves. It just so happens that these guilty pleasures include Zombi 2 and The Wicker Man. So let your freak flags fly, fanboys. This one's for you.