10 More Most Paused Zombie Horror Movie Moments

The zombie movie is a horror staple, tracing it origins back to Victor Halperin's 70-minute creature feature White Zombie (1932), but really coming into focus for audiences with George A. Romero's work in the 1970s and '80s.

Since then, the trajectory of the genre has been choppy, slipping in and out of vogue, but with each resurgence we have been treated to bigger budgets, brighter ideas, and a much wider scope for the horrors that can be realised on screen. It should go without saying that, alongside these developments, have come ever-more nasty shocks and gore, which although we don't really want to see, we can't seem to look away from.

Indeed, many zombie movies have us reaching for the remote and studying things frame-by-frame. And why not, when there are as many reasons to pause as there are to hide behind the sofa, including split-second images, impressive details, jaw-dropping effects, and shocking moments we still can't quite bring ourselves to believe really happened.

Prime your button-pressing finger, keep your eyes peeled, and settle in for the following ten more zombie movie moments you'll be pausing for years to come.

When director Edgar Wright went to work putting his own spin on the zombie genre, he took a lot of what he already knew with him from his TV show Spaced, including small lives in the big city, London suburban mise-en-scène, quick cuts, and a squad of his regular cast.

The main stars of Spaced, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, lead Shaun of the Dead, and other cameos abound, including an amusing encounter with Jessica Hynes' own rag-tag group of zombie holocaust survivors. However, another recognisable face from the show's supporting cast makes appearances that only the most eagle-eyed fans, with the fastest remotes in the West, might manage to spot.

A blink and you'll miss it cameo has Michael Smiley, who appears as raver Tyres O'Flaherty on Spaced, surface in a crowd of flesh-hungry zombies. And the fact that he is dressed in the same upturned yellow cap he wears in the show suggests he is in fact the selfsame character. Although this poses some strange and unanswerable questions about whether there are doppelgängers for Shaun (Pegg), Ed (Frost) and Yvonne (Hynes) living in another suburb, it's a moment to behold all the same.