Hoo boy, where do we begin?
- "Forget it, Nicholas. It's Sandford."
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it Shout-Out occurs repeatedly with the two identical twins running the front desk at the police station. One reads nothing but Iain M. Banks and the other nothing but Iain Banks novels. This is a subversion of... something... in that while Iain M. and Iain are the same man, the two identical desk sergeants are not.
- "You've always been here." In an inn, too. And his later compatriot is named Danny.
- There's a bit where Nick has been stabbed by Danny, stashed in the boot of his car, then revealed only to be Not Quite Dead, that's a homage to Quentin Tarantino's favorite shot: from the boot of the car.
- In the supermarket, the DVD of Shaun of the Dead can be glimpsed for a few frames, with the title 'Zombies Party'.
- According to the DVD commentary, the Shaun of the Dead DVD was actually the Spanish version of the film, which had that Completely Different Title.
- Other shout-outs to Shaun of the Dead are Danny asking Nicholas if he "Wants anything from the shop" and during the chase of the shoplifter, Nick saying "What, you've never taken a shortcut before?" before starting to jump over a series of fences and the line "You've got red on you."
- According to the DVD commentary, the Shaun of the Dead DVD was actually the Spanish version of the film, which had that Completely Different Title.
- When a shed full of guns is revealed: "By the Power of Grayskull!" Also said later on when Butterman's film collection is revealed.
- Outsider cop visits a small town and discovers an evil cult's plot? Sounds like The Wicker Man (1973). Bonus points since Edward Woodward (who played the cop in the original Wicker Man) appears in the film.
- Even his character's name Tom Weaver is a reference to this.
- Well technically, the NWA is not an evil cult, but a Well-Intentioned Extremist association Gone Horribly Wrong.
- They just act like an evil cult, wearing black robes and chanting ominously, in a castle courtyard in the dead of night.
- The name of Janet Barker's twins announced at the NWA meeting, Roger and Martin; after the protagonists of the Lethal Weapon series.
- The village staging of Romeo and Juliet takes several cues from Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996).
- Most notably, the use of The Cardigans' song "Lovefool."
- Blower and Draper are using the famous knight/angel costumes from that film. (While the background characters are in period dress).
- Juliet uses Romeo's Beretta to commit suicide.
- To Phantom of the Paradise, one of Wright's favorite movies: the quick and menacing movements of the hooded killer with the black cape are meant to homage Winslow Leach's when he's the Phantom, particularly the frantic hand-held camera from behind when they're running away from Nicholas after killing Leslie Tiller, and when the killer goes through a plastic tent after slashing it down with a knife, which is similar to Winslow slashing the shower curtain to ambush Beef during the "Psycho" Shower Murder Parody.
- The priest seems to have spring loaded pistols in his sleeves a la Travis Bickle.
- Looks more like The Mariachi in Desperado.
- Michael "Lurch" Armstrong bears a resemblance to Lurch from The Addams Family.
- Tony Fisher getting Spider-Man facial paint at the village fair.
- In addition to the NWA being a Shout-Out to you-know-what (see Fun with Acronyms), Danny's "Yeaaaahh booooyyyyy!" to the barman before getting drunk with Angel.
- Mr. Treacher firing a Winchester Model 1887—sawn off—is a reference to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. A Winchester also appeared in Shaun of the Dead and played a major role in that movie.
- Whenever Nicholas chases after someone on foot, he emulates the T-1000's manner of swinging his arms.
- When Nicholas returns to Sandford, he interrupts Mr. Reaper's attempt to warn the NWA by slamming into his car. The only word Reaper gets out is "It's..."
- Nicholas' attempt to arrest the entire NWA by himself recalls a similar Leeroy Jenkins scene in Dragnet where Joe Friday tries to arrest an entire cult by himself.
- Nicholas is in a shop when the shopkeeper asks him if he's found "the killers" yet - just visible behind her is a poster of the album Hot Fuss by The Killers.
- Danny mishears 'Judge, Jury, and Executioner' as 'Judge Judy and Executioner'.
