Cockneys vs Zombies is a 2012 British comedy zombie film directed by Matthias Hoene about a group of cockneys who arm themselves to rescue their grandfather and friends from a retirement home during a zombie apocalypse in East London. A pair of workmen accidentally unleash the zombies from a plague pit. The film stars Harry Treadaway, Rasmus Hardiker, and Michelle Ryan as the cockneys fighting off the zombies, and was Richard Briers' last acting role before he passed away the following year.