Blu-ray Review – Shredder Orpheus

The future belongs to skateboarders. That's the general idea driving 1990's "Shredder Orpheus," which is a punky update of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, with writer/director/actor Robert McGinley bringing the Greek legend down to a more manageable, underground cinema size. It's an ambitious undertaking with an extremely low budget, but McGinley is determined to do something with his idea, offering a surreal adventure that's filled with music, challenges, and skateboarding. The scale of the feature is impressive, especially with the limited resources available to McGinley, making production appreciation easy. Sitting through "Shredder Orpheus" is much more difficult. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com