Film Review – Dead Media

We’re currently living in an age when movie studios and video game corporations are looking to eliminate physical media, preferring to live a digital download/streaming life to best profit from the art they sell. Writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw makes his feature-length helming debut with “Dead Media,” and he’s hoping to revive that nostalgic spark for discs, using the power and mystery of DVD navigation to inspire a horror tale that highlights zombie-like enemies, but mostly wants to play with acts of disorientation. “Dead Media” is a low-budget endeavor, but Scrimshaw works hard to make something lively and unique, finding an interesting way to approach the usual in stalk-and-kill cinema, giving his fright film special inspiration to help it through a few mismanaged ideas. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com