Blu-ray Review – Shatter Dead

Writer/director Scooter McCrae has some big ideas to help fill his filmmaking debut, 1994's "Shatter Dead," and he keeps all of them to himself. This is McCrae's take on the zombie genre, only instead of flesh-munching monsters, the undead are basically the same as before, scattered across rural New York like homeless people, trying to live their best life without actually living. It's a concept with promise, but McCrae is too busy trying to impress viewers with his Euro-cinema influences, going abstract with his collection of visuals and scenes. The movie opens with a bewildering moment that has nothing to do with the rest of the endeavor, and "Shatter Dead" doesn't really improve from there. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com