Bonus Episode - 6 Feet Deeper: Hot Fuzz

0:00 Adam Good evening and welcome to horror. I'm Adam. Yep, still just me.

0:27 Adam I'm down in the Welcome to Horror Fact Library to bring you another 6 feet deeper, this time on Hot Fuzz.

0:37 Adam Obviously, I recommend that you go and listen to the actual episode on Hot Fuzz. This is just an addenda that in which we will detail some of the interesting facts and points of interest that we found about the film that never actually made it into the main episode.

0:54 Adam If this is your first time listening to Welcome to Horror, please don't start here because this is utterly unrepresentative of what the actual show is like.

1:01 Adam There's possibly going to be swearing and there's definitely going to be spoilers.

1:07 Adam So, to start with, the initial scripts for Hot Fuzz

1:13 Adam had a love interest for Simon Pegg's character Nicholas Angel. This character called Victoria was cut out fairly early in the scripting process, but a large number of her romance-tinged lines were given to Danny without any changes whatsoever.

1:25 Adam Edgar Wright also wanted at some point to name it Hot Fuzz, spelling Hot with two T's. This was apparently he'd noticed that a number of action films were two words,

1:37 Adam each with an equal number of letters in those two words, Lethal Weapon being an example. But, Simon Pegg kiboshed this, mostly on the basis that he didn't want to have to answer in every interview why there were two T's in Hot Fuzz.

1:49 Adam As stated on the main show, the film was shot in Edgar Wright's hometown of Wells in Somerset.

1:54 Adam The town in the film is called Sanford and this is actually named after the fictional town used in the majority of UK police training exercises.

2:03 Adam Incidentally, the street plan for that Sanford is based on Dundee in Scotland.

2:09 Adam We have a few returnees from Shaun of the Dead.

2:13 Adam Right at the start in the forensic sequence where Nicholas Angel is talking to Kate Blanchett's character Janine.

2:21 Adam Not Janine, the person he mistakes Janine for, is Robert Popper, who is the co-creator of Look Around You.

2:26 Adam With Cornetto Trilogy stalwart Peter Serafinowicz, and also the creator of Friday Night Dinner.

2:30 Adam Both of these shows are well worth seeking out.

2:34 Adam Look Around You in particular is just simply brilliant and features so many familiar faces from

2:41 Adam British comedy at the time, the Cornetto Trilogy Spaced and so on, and is just an actual pure work of genius.

2:49 Adam He plays the presenter Jack Morgan in Look Around You.

2:55 Adam Bob, another member of the forensic team, is played by the comedian and director Joe Cornish, who directed Attack the Block.

3:02 Adam See Welcome to Horror episode 118, and is also in the process of doing the upcoming sequel to Attack the Block.

3:09 Adam And as a further note, Danny's video/DVD collection is a combination of Joe Cornish's with Edgar Wright and Wright's brother Oscar. Oscar Wright also drew Danny's flip book that we see in the film.

3:24 Adam Two further returnees are the Butcher Brothers, the twin brothers Kevin Wilson and Nicholas Wilson,

3:30 Adam who are also twin zombies in Shaun of the Dead, and they're also twins in the trailer for Don't in Grindhouse, directed by Edgar Wright.

3:37 Adam Joe Cornish's comedy partner Adam Buxton obviously plays Tim Messenger.

3:43 Adam Who can be seen in Son of Rambo and Stardust, but most most famously for The Adam and Joe Show.

3:50 Adam And his own his own show Adam Buxton's Bug. He's also Jahaed the Riddlemaster in The Crystal Maze.

3:56 Adam What the- my!

4:00 Adam Time Trumpet, it's Kevin, Look Around You, The IT The IT Crowd, The Last Chance to Swiss Tony, Ranlflin Hopkirk Deceased The Remake, and he is also the voice of Messi in Messi Goes to Okido.

4:10 Adam Adam is not a returnee from Shaun of the Dead.

4:16 Adam But he is part of the list of comedy stalwarts who make their Cornetto Trilogy appearance here in Hot Fuzz.

4:24 Adam Another is obviously Bill Bailey, who plays the Sergeant's Turner. He is he was Bilbo Bagshot in Spaced.

4:31 Adam And his own sketch series Is It Bill Bailey was directed by Edgar Wright and co-starred Simon Pegg.

4:37 Adam And that's where we doing comes from.

4:41 Adam He's in Burke and Hare, he's in Saving Grace, he's in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. But on television he was in Black Books with Dylan Moran from Shaun of the Dead.

4:50 Adam Again, highly recommended.

4:53 Adam He was in Doctor Who The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe, which no one should ever watch ever.

5:01 Adam He was in 15 Stories High, It's Kevin Again, Blue Heaven, Hustle, Worzel Gummidge the Remake, Jonathan Creek, Wild West, Skins, Midsomer Murders, and he's the voice of The Whale in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

5:14 Adam Stephen Merchant also appears as Peter Ian Staker, the owner of The Lost Swan.

5:20 Adam Who was the co-creator of The Office with Ricky Gervais.

5:25 Adam And Extras, and Life's Too Short.

5:31 Adam He was also Auggie in The Office.

5:32 Adam He was he's Caliban in Logan.

5:38 Adam He's in Fighting with My Family.

5:40 Adam Again, he's in Burke and Hare.

5:42 Adam Run Fat Boy Run.

5:44 Adam He's particularly memorable as the chef in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he's in the series The Outlaws, Hello Ladies, which he also created.

5:52 Adam And has appeared as has done voice work on Robot Chicken, and The Simpsons, and American Dad, and is all right all around doing all right for himself.

6:02 Adam However, of all the

6:06 Adam 90s to naughties comedy stalwarts that we see in this film, I feel remiss that I had forgotten that Kevin Eldon appeared in this film as Sergeant Tony Fisher.

6:21 Adam Kevin Eldon, or the actor Kevin Eldon, to give him his full title, if you watch Tutomanger,

6:30 Adam is just is British comedy.

6:33 Adam He just has been in so many things.

6:36 Adam He had his own show called It's Kevin, which is fantastic.

6:40 Adam He played a agent in Spaced.

6:43 Adam And he's in Four Lions, he's in Funny Cow.

6:48 Adam He's in the Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

6:52 Adam But he was Simon Quinlank.

6:57 Adam Rod Hoe and others in Fist of Fun.

7:01 Adam As mentioned, this morning with Richard Not Judy.

7:05 Adam He was Tony Rudd memorably in Look Around You.

7:09 Adam Again, can't stress enough, go and seek out Look Around You.

7:13 Adam Brass Eye, Big Train.

7:17 Adam Now Big Train was a sketch show that featured him, Mark Heap from Spaced, Simon Pegg, Amelia Bullmore, Rebecca Front, and Catherine Tate and Julia Davis, and is again just a brilliantly weird sketch show.

7:31 Adam Has no recurring characters or catchphrases, is just 12 episodes of just brilliance.

7:39 Adam Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

7:41 Adam He was in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set.

7:45 Adam He was in Doctor Who It Takes You Away, which you should watch.

7:49 Adam He was the barber in Nathan Barley.

7:53 Adam Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan where he was Fanny Thomas.

7:57 Adam He's in I'm Alan Partridge, Jam, Attention Scum, Dodgy Phil in World of Pub, Hyperdrive, Damned, Smack the Pony, 15 Stories High, How TV Ruined Your Life, Game of Thrones, Inside Number 9, Zanzibar, again Black Books, Hippies, Psycho Bitches, The Life of Rock with Brian Pern, Saxondale, The IT Crowd, This is Jinsy, Utopia, Truth Seekers, Green Wing, Horrible Histories, Red Dwarf, Hang-Ups, Packing Them In, Blue Heaven, In The Red, The Last Chance to, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul.

8:11 Adam Nightingale, Funland, The Last Kingdom, Hustle, Wolf, Am I High, Skins, New Tricks, Mr. Sloane.

8:17 Adam Midsomer Murders and The Three Body Problem.

8:21 Adam And he was the voice of Hugh the Monkey in I Am Not an Animal.

8:24 Adam And he is the new Penfold in Danger Mouse. He also had some voice work in the series of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.

8:31 Adam I once saw him at a Matt Berry gig and yes, he was a very polite man and yes, Kevin Eldon is just the word comedy running through the stick of rock that is British comedy.

8:40 Adam The film also has as I say, it had a number of comedy stalwarts, but also it then has the weird Venn diagram of cherished British character actors falling into the center of that Venn diagram.

8:49 Adam Surely are Jim Broadbent and Olivia Colman.

8:53 Adam As we mentioned on the show, Jim Broadbent actually was asked to appear in Shaun of the Dead, he turned it down.

9:01 Adam Then he saw Shaun of the Dead, realized how good it was, asked if he could be in their next film.

9:06 Adam So the part of Frank was specifically written for him.

9:09 Adam Film-wise, I mean he's been in a lot of Terry Gilliam stuff, so he's been he was in Brazil, he's in Time Bandits, he was in Life Is Sweet, The Crying Game, Gangs of New York, Eric the Viking.

9:19 Adam Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

9:24 Adam The Hit.

9:26 Adam The Paddington Films, Richard the Third.

9:30 Adam He's Professor Slughorn in the Harry Potter films.

9:34 Adam The Borrowers, Superman IV The Quest for Peace.

9:40 Adam Peace.

9:41 Adam Topsy-Turvy, Mulan Rouge.

9:44 Adam Loads and loads of films, but on television he was during the 80s and 90s, was just in loads of British comedy.

9:53 Adam He was another memorably horrible policeman in Only Fools and Horses, where he was Roy Slater.

9:59 Adam He's Prince Albert in Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Don't Speak English in The Black Adder The Queen of Spain's Beard.

10:05 Adam He's shouting George from The Weenie in The Comic Strip Presents Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown.

10:11 Adam All of these things are definitely worth tracking down.

10:16 Adam He was the Archmeister Ambrose in Game of Thrones, of course he was, because every British actor was in there, even Kevin Eldon was in Game of Thrones.

10:26 Adam Tales of the Unexpected, Murder Most Horrid, Victoria Wood has seen on TV, Not the 9 O'Clock News.

10:33 Adam Just loads and loads of stuff.

10:37 Adam Similarly, Olivia Coleman, while she's done she's obviously won best best actress Oscar for The Favourite.

10:43 Adam She's in Tyrannosaur, written and directed by Paddy Considine, who's also in Hot Fuzz.

10:49 Adam The Lobster, La Donk and Scozzie, again with Paddy Considine.

10:57 Adam And Wicked Little Letters, The Iron Lady.

11:02 Adam But she is also Pan Bachelor.

11:05 Adam In Look Around You.

11:06 Adam Again, please if there's one thing you take away from this, it's go and seek out Look Around You, both series are just beautiful.

11:13 Adam Sophie in Peep Show.

11:15 Adam She was in Broadchurch, Flowers, Green Wing, Bruiser.

11:21 Adam That Mitchell and Webb situation, The Mitchell and Webb Look.

11:24 Adam She's in Doctor Who The 11th Hour.

11:27 Adam She's utterly wasted in that, but it's still a good episode.

11:30 Adam She was Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown.

11:35 Adam 2012, Black Books, This is Jinsy.

11:38 Adam She was the Godmother in Fleabag, Rev, Swiss Tony.

11:43 Adam She was Janet Sloane in Mr. Sloane with Nick Frost.

11:48 Adam Hancock and Joan.

11:50 Adam And she is the narrator of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and has also been in The Simpsons.

11:56 Adam Again, as mentioned on the show, the Summerfield Supermarket was where Edgar Wright worked as a teenager.

12:04 Adam But the at one point they were thinking of changing the name to Summer Isles, Isles as in shopping Isles.

12:10 Adam As a Wicker Man reference, which leads us nicely into our list of amazing British character actors.

12:17 Adam With that Wicker Man reference leaping in the air, we moved to Edward Woodward, who played Tom Weaver.

12:23 Adam Obviously, he was Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man.

12:25 Adam I recently watched a film with him called The Appointment, which is a very strange odd horror movie of a man basically being haunted by his own daughter's disappointment as he goes away on a road trip.

12:34 Adam Also recently watched Deadly Advice, where he plays Major Herbert Armstrong advising Jane Horrocks on the best way to bump off her mum.

12:41 Adam Incense for the Damned, Sitting Target.

12:45 Adam He certainly has his action credentials as he played David Callan in Callan between 1967 and 72.

12:52 Adam Which is a very noir spy drama and is very very much the opposite end of the espionage from say the glitz and glamour of James Bond, this is genuine espionage work, it's dirty, it's horrible.

13:05 Adam And he basically that was the thing that made Edward Woodward's name.

13:09 Adam He then went on to be Robert McCall in The Equalizer for 88 episodes, again someone writing wrongs and imposing justice at the end of a gun.

13:16 Adam He's in a dystopian drama called 1990, which is obviously meant to be six years on from 1984.

13:23 Adam He was in CI5 The New Professionals, Common as Muck, Messiah.

13:26 Adam Which again, very good, the first series of which was was really good serial killer police procedural.

13:33 Adam He's been in Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes and The Saint, The Baron, The Lone Gunmen.

13:40 Adam And he also was the narrator of the series Insuspicious Circumstances, like a true crime documentary series.

13:48 Adam One of Edward Woodward's co-stars from Deadly Advice, Billie Whitelaw, plays Joyce Cooper in Hot Fuzz.

13:55 Adam We've previously seen her in The Omen, see Welcome to Horror episode 103.

14:01 Adam Where she was the utterly terrifying Mrs. Baylock.

14:06 Adam She also, as I say, she was in Deadly Advice with Edward Woodward playing Kate Webster.

14:15 Adam She's in The Flesh and the Fiends.

14:17 Adam Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.

14:20 Adam Hell Is a City.

14:21 Adam She was Violet Kray in The Krazed, that's the one with the Spandau Ballet, not Tom Hardy, Emira and the ninth Doctor.

14:29 Adam She's also the voice of Aura in The Dark Crystal, which once you realize that, you cannot unhear it.

14:34 Adam Paul Freeman, who plays the Reverend Shooter, is Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Colin in The Long Good Friday.

14:41 Adam He's also Professor Moriarty in Without a Clue.

14:45 Adam All three are highly highly recommended films.

14:48 Adam He's also in A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg.

14:53 Adam Who Dares Wins and countless television appearances, stuff like The Sweeney, Crown Court, Between the Lines, etc.

14:58 Adam Kenneth Cranham, who plays James Reaper, should be very familiar to horror fans as Chenard from Hellbound Hellraiser 2.

15:05 Adam He was in The Last Yellow, Requiem Apache.

15:09 Adam Prospero's Books, Gangster Number 1.

15:12 Adam And he was Harvey Moon in the TV series Shine On Harvey Moon.

15:16 Adam And he was also in a drama called Chimera from the, I believe, early 90s, which was a very nasty, grim, sci-fi slasher with a mutant monkey boy.

15:25 Adam And yeah, lots of fun.

15:27 Adam But he's also been in Inside Number 9 and The Winner Is.

15:32 Adam Orange Is Not the Only Fruit, Against the Crowd.

15:37 Adam Zed Cars, just tons and tons of stuff.

15:39 Adam Midsomer Murders, that's pretty much a given for any British actor now.

15:44 Adam One face I was pleased to see in there was Tim Barlow as Mr. Treacher.

15:48 Adam Now Tim Barlow's a actor who's been in my.

15:52 Adam One of my favorite films, The Nine Lives of Thomas Cats.

15:56 Adam He's in Cockney Vs. Zombies, The Tall Guy.

15:59 Adam He was Mr. Lobley in Inside Victor Lewis-Smith, which is where I first saw him.

16:04 Adam He was in Doctor Who, Destiny of the Daleks.

16:07 Adam He was in Cracker.

16:08 Adam The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock The Abominable Bride.

16:13 Adam The Omega Factor, Crown Court, Gormenghast.

16:16 Adam Very interesting actor.

16:17 Adam He was profoundly he was actually profoundly deaf, he there was an accident while he was testing a rifle in the army.

16:23 Adam Which left him which left him deaf.

16:26 Adam He still continued and went on to have a long acting career and actually had his hearing restored by a cochlear implant in 2008.

16:33 Adam This also sees the first James Bond to appear in The Cornetto Trilogy in the form of Timothy Dalton.

16:39 Adam Timothy Dalton's mustache was was sorry, Skinner's mustache was Dalton's idea.

16:45 Adam He decided it would add an extra sleaziness to the character.

16:49 Adam It has to be said that whenever Timothy Dalton turns up in a mustache, such as when he's Prince Baron in Flash Gordon or Nevil Sinclair in The Rocketeer, that does tend to be an indicator that you're in for a good film.

16:57 Adam Another Doctor Who actor, he was Rassilon in The End of Time.

17:02 Adam He was Niles Caulder in Doom Patrol, which I've still yet to see, but I love the comics, so I've got high hopes for that.

17:07 Adam And Sir Malcolm Murray in Penny Dreadful.

17:11 Adam He's also Mr. Picklepants in The Toy Story franchise.

17:16 Adam Hot Fuzz was also the first thing that I ever saw Rory McCann in, who obviously went on to be Sandor The Hound Clegane in Game of Thrones.

17:23 Adam A few little bits and pieces to watch out for.

17:26 Adam When Danny throws the DVD for the Jackie Chan movie Police Story 3 Supercop.

17:32 Adam Meet the cop that can't be stopped.

17:35 Adam Back into the bargain bin, there's a copy of Shaun of the Dead DVD in the pile.

17:40 Adam It's retitled Zombie Zombie's Party, which is what it was called in some other countries.

17:44 Adam And there's a price sticker over Simon Pegg's face.

17:48 Adam Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's mums are part of the Village of the Year judging panel.

17:54 Adam And the NWA, who obviously, who they're named after.

17:58 Adam Their Latin motto, Bonum Commune Communetartis, translates as for the common good of the community.

18:04 Adam Or the greater good.

18:08 Adam Every character that Nicholas Angel sees when he's out jogging on the first morning,

18:14 Adam that is where those characters will be standing for the final shootout.

18:18 Adam And he also at one point walks in slow-mo with birds in frame, which is a nod to the director John Woo.

18:25 Adam And along with all the other with all the obvious sort of bits and pieces that they've put in there.

18:31 Adam Apparently Peg and Wright wanted to tick off all the action film clichés as described in Roger Ebert's book, Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary.

18:40 Adam These clichés include a character waking in an unfamiliar room and immediately finding the light switch.

18:45 Adam And a driving shot with the car following the middle the lines down the middle, not in one of the lanes.

18:52 Adam And finally a word on the music, now the score was by David Arnold.

18:56 Adam Who'd also did the music for the Grindhouse trailer Don't, directed by Edgar Wright.

19:04 Adam But more famously is his Bond association, he did Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace.

19:12 Adam He also did the music for Paul with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The Young Americans, Stargate, Independence Day, Zoolander, In Between Us 2, Shaft, Stoned, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Venus.

19:22 Adam Godzilla, Too Fast, Too Furious, and on TV, he did the music for Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Sherlock.

19:27 Adam Mark Gatiss's Crooked House, Tractate Midtoff.

19:32 Adam Moffat and Gatiss's Dracula, Toast of London.

19:38 Adam Good Omens, Little Britain, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

19:42 Adam That's the Vic and Bob Remake.

19:44 Adam And along with tracks by variously Adam Ant, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Supergrass, The Kinks and others, as well as Simon Skinner's habit of playing songs related to the murders he's helped commit.

19:56 Adam There are extracts from other action film scores including Lethal Weapon 3 trailer score by John Eric Alexander.

20:01 Adam Which is when they see all the guns at the farm.

20:05 Adam Foot Chase by Mark Isham from Point Break and Hostage Situation by Trevor Rabin from Bad Boys 2.

20:10 Adam I don't know if like Shaun of the Dead's use of tracks from Romero's zombie films, if these were temp tracks that were that fitted so well they decided to include them, or it was the or that was the intention from the start.

20:23 Adam There are also specifically written pieces by action director Robert Rodriguez.

20:28 Adam Anyway, that's just a few of the extra pointers that turned up from Hot Fuzz.

20:32 Adam I hope you enjoyed this.

20:34 Adam If you did enjoy this, my name is Adam for Welcome to Horror.

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20:43 Adam And I wish you a bond good evening, goodnight and God bless you.