History Film / CockneysVsZombies

* ApocalypseHow: Class 0, The zombie outbreak is successfully contained to East End London by the army and they're preparing a counterattack.
* AmusingInjuries: Isn't this a necessity in zombie comedy?

* AssholeVictim: Maybe he's justified, but hostage Clive decides to start threatening everyone with the pump action shotgun rather than pay attention to the crowds of zombies outside, proclaiming that he's in charge. Cue disemboweling a few seconds later.

* BittersweetEnding: Though much of London's population is surely either dead, turned or both, the main protagonists escape aboard a boat onto the Thames, and the British Army soon flies overhead with a substantial number of attack helicopters, signifying a counterattack.

* CantYouReadTheSign: Mickey dropkicks a [[UndeadChild zombie child]] straight into a "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iex2Z6c6-p4 Targetting Cruelty against Children]]" sign.

* EvilVersusEvil: The zombies form factions and fight against themselves, leaving the heroes to proceed relatively unhindered.
** Played for laughs, as the reason the zombies fight each other is because they were formerly supporters of rival football teams, whose hatred for each other even extends into undeath.

** Well, she IS Honor Blackman, who 50 years earlier was [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Mrs Cathy Gale]] AND [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Pussy Galore]], so it is understandable.

* IdiotBall: King Charles II, for locking up the zombies rather than, you know, destroying them.
** To be fair, it was the 1600s, he probably ordered them locked up thinking the Zombies were possessed people, and tried everything else before deciding to lock them up in case the "possession" wore off, and as far as we saw there were only two zombies left by the time the seal is broken, but judging by the amount of skeletons we see, there might have been a lot more than anyone could deal with at the time.
** Considering how the zombie FootballHooligans behaved, it's possible that ''all'' those skeletons were originally zombies, but ones who'd been members of opposing 17th-century factions in life. In which case, they may have ended up brainlessly beating and jabbing at one another inside the crypt until their flesh was so denuded that just two remained ambulatory.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Whether or not a skeleton (yes, a skeleton) has the strength to tear off your lower jaw with one bite has yet to be investigated by National Geographic. The trademark disembowelling that comes with a zombie film is also a good example. It's also subverted when Mickey gets bitten; there's no chunks being torn out, instead the zombie's just dangling off his arm like a fish on a hook and Mickey reacts very calmly, though it may be that he's just too insane to feel pain. Considering previous scenes, this may be the case.

* OffWithHisHead: Emma's first brutal killing is when she repeatedly slams a great big metal spade against the back of a zombie on the floor, eventually slicing right through.
** Then there's also Mickey's brilliant attempt at breaking a zombie's neck, where it just stands there alive and well with its head twisted backwards. Mickey keeps twisting the head like a cork until it tears off completely, to the horror of Clive and Emma.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Zombified Mickey has this expression when the protagonists stick a grenade in his mouth after trying to kill him. (And failing due to the metal plate in his skull.)]]

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Averted. The headshots spray blood of at least five shades of red all over the place.

* TooDumbToLive: Averted. Granddad keeps a very cool head while he and the pensioners are trapped, including recognising that "We'd be fucked up there!" if they were to shelter upstairs, a reference to the criticism of the popular zombie defence tactic of higher ground.
** Played straight with Clive, who seems to think that repeatedly telling his kidnappers that he knows their names and will make sure they're prosecuted is a ''good'' idea.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bank manager stays behind when the robbers grab their hostages and leave, and we never see if she or the bank's customers have time to shut themselves inside before the zombies arrive.
* YeOldeButcheredEnglish: Averted, the sealed crypt has contemporary English, although the construction workers who find it argue over wether or not it's Roman, so it may be a TranslationConvention.

* ZombieGait: Lampshaded in one exchange of dialogue.
--> '''Andy''': ''Is that as fast as they go?''
--> '''Terry''': Mate, they're dead. They're not exactly gonna sprint, are they?

* CoolGuns: Nothing beats the Remington 870 shotgun. When Mickey tests it out on an approaching zombie it clearly does damage, especially with the brutal leg shot which resembles what would happen if you packed the inside of a tree trunk with high powered explosives.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Army are successful in containing the slow walking, unarmed enemy to London and begin their counterattack.

* DaylightHorror: The whole film takes place in the middle of the day.

''Cockneys vs. Zombies'' is a zombie comedy that any fan of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' will no doubt adore, in all its gruesome, messed up hilarity. Directed by Matthias Hoene and written by James Moran and Lucas Roche.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Granddad Is About To Shoot You: The final scene.

* ClosestThingWeveGot: Andy and Terry each note that this is basically the only reason they let Danny and Mickey join the heist, as Danny has "experience" of committing a robbery (in the sense that Danny tried to commit a crime) and Mickey has access to guns (which they don't want to actually use).

* ChekhovsGun: Two of them -- Mickey's metal plate in the skull and the grenade he brings along to the robbery. [[spoiler:The former means that once he turns, they can't just shoot him (since the plate protects the brain), and the latter is used to finish him off.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Certainly feels like this trope is being invoked every time someones dares to say anything to Mickey that he might not like.

* BadassFamily: The [=MacGuire=] family are this, Although in Andy and Terrys case, it takes a zombie apocalypse for them to get there, their Grandfather Ray, fought in WWII and from the flashback we see, he took on an entire Nazi MG nest on his own, and according to him he was underage and lied to get in, and won, their Parents are seen giving a heartwarming speech on the importance of family and looking out for each other before taking an implied LastStand against the police, wielding shotguns, Their Cousin Katy is an OnlySaneWoman and the coolest and most level headed of the cast outside of Ray, is also a master locksmith and from what is seen, the best shot, offhandedly headshotting several Zombies, Andy and Terry themselves start off being the letdowns of the family, but quickly adapt to the situation, Andy is almost TooDumbToLive in courage, frequently helped out of trouble by Terry, and while they bicker, they are clearly devoted to looking out for each other and the family, their main reasoning for pulling a bank job is to get enough money to save their grandfathers retirement home, and their first instinct after the Zombies hit is to get there to rescue him and his friends without even considering the danger of the zombies as anything more than an obstacle.

** Mickey fires his shotgun inside the van, resulting in everyone getting disoriented and their ears ringing.

* RealityEnsues: The Army are successful in containing the slow walking, unarmed enemy to London and begin their counterattack.
** Mickey fires his shotgun inside the van, resulting in everyone getting disoriented and their ears ringing.