the cornetto trilogy
The Cornetto Trilogy (also known as The Three-Flavours Cornetto Trilogy and/or The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy) are a series of films written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and directed by Edgar Wright. The three films don't share a story/universe, being otherwise connected through cast (the main two characters being played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with several other actors, including Bill Nighy, Rafe Spall and Martin Freeman, also appearing in all three films) and ice cream, with each movie in the series corresponding to a different flavour of Cornetto.
The trilogy is made up of Shaun of The Dead (2004), which is represented by strawberry, Hot Fuzz (2007), which is represented by classico, and The World's End (2017), which is represented by mint.
The Cornetto Trilogy hss been one of my most out of the blue hyperfixations. Like it just appeared out of nowhere one day and now I am haunted by them every day everywhere I go. Not that I'm complaining. They're some of my favourites.
shaun of the dead
Shaun of The Dead is the first movie in the series; a zom-com about a down-on-his-luck salesman surviving through the zombie apocalypse with the people he cares about the most, such as his ex Liz, who recently broke up with him, his mother, his stepfather, and his bum of a best friend, Ed. Pegg and Wright had the idea after an episode of Spaced where Tim Bisley drops acid and hallucinates zombies.
SOTD was one of my first zombie films and it led me into being a horror fan, which is something I really appreciate it for. Even though it's, in my opinion, the weakest cornetto film, it was still a good, fun watch.
I really enjoyed being able to see Edgar Wright's directorial style find its footing in this movie :)
hot fuzz
Hot Fuzz is the second film in the series, and the one that ended up the most commercially successful. It's a bit of a mix of everything; an action, buddy-cop, small-town murder mystery (and a romance too, if you squint and you're based) following a London officer, Nicholas Angel, moving to the small village of Sandford and uncovering a conspiracy alongside his partner Danny Butterman.
Hot Fuzz is definitely my favourite of the three, and the strongest in the hyperfix. Like I cannot stress how special this movie is. My favourite movie, my #1 in my Letterboxd top 4. My father showed it to me a while ago and, despite my reluctance and general dislike of the buddy cop genre, I ended up quite taken with the fast-paced humor and the over-the-top gory kills. I rewatched it late 2025, and couldn't manage to drag myself out of the hyperfixation pit in time. Since then I have shown Hot Fuzz to. literally everyone in my life who will listen to my bullshit long enough for it.
the world's end
The World's End is the third and final (unless you're buying into the theory that we are getting another movie like I am) installment in the trilogy, following a group of friends attempting the pub crawl they did at the end of high school years later when they're all adults whilst coming to the realisation that their town has been taken over by aliens.
This movie doesn't get the love it deserves because it's more serious than the other two. It's an incredibly thought-out film full of love, heart and emotional depth, and a lot of people don't appreciate it as much as they should for that. After I first watched it, it was on my mind for days after. It's so miserable and I adore it for that.
