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More ambition than budget
Well...unlike most everyone else here, I enjoyed this film. Does it have the lowest production values of basically any movie I've ever seen? Yes. I'm sorry, but it really does. I was actually so shocked by how bad it looked that it took my eyes a few minutes to adjust. (Although, quite honestly, Clerks looks a whole lot worse. At least the director of Shatter Dead seems to understand which end of the camera should be pointed at the set, which is more than can be said for Kevin Smith. The difference being that Clerks was shot in black-and-white, which makes its flaws much less evident. Shatter Dead opts for garish video color -- and I don't mean digital video -- making the whole thing look like the cheapest sitcom ever made.) Anyway: You have been warned. Whatever visual ugliness you're imagining right now, I promise you the movie is uglier.

But!

As I grew accustomed to the cheaposity of Shatter Dead, a strange thing began to happen. I began to stop silently chastising myself for buying a movie because "it sounds cool," and appreciate first what the director was obviously trying to do, in spite of his lack of resources, and then actually appreciate what he'd done. If the film is dreary and banal, so is the world that Susan, the protagonist, lives in. The world of Shatter Dead isn't, and maybe shouldn't be, a big-budget Hollywood world; it's mundane and ugly and depressing. The look of the film matches its tone.

And, as a few of even the nastier critics have noted, there are some cool ideas here. The mirror tests (the person who didn't understand why Susan carries a mirror around all the time wasn't paying much attention), the baby, the whole reworking of pretty much every zombie movie made since Night of the Living Dead (and in a way I think Romero would appreciate). Things like Susan's dream and the...uh...gun sequence may not sit right with more conservative horror fans -- the former may seem pretentious, and...did I see someone call the gun thing gross? Personally, I couldn't believe my eyes. I never, never, NEVER expected to see anything like that in any film that even kind of targeted a mainstream audience. Aren't horror films supposed to go to extremes?

This film is not perfect, and not for everyone. Would I like to see a sequel/remake with a real budget (and the same production team)? OH, yeah. But it's clear that everyone involved gave it their best, and the result is a unique little movie I like a lot.

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a review from a true horror nut
I am making my first film and it is a zombie film. This film is a fine example of a micro-budget film that can...People are quick to judge the transfer quality, but then again these people also didnt make a film for under 10 g's...This film won the FANTAfilm award for best US independent film, mainly based on sheer power of the story and the eerie atmosphere that a micro-budget film generates. Any true zombie afficionado can appreciate a film like this, ever see night of the living dead? YES? Well that was made on a shoestring budget as well...Ever see Let Sleeping Corpses Lie? Probably not. Also made for little more money.

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Doctor OF Z Movies
ALERT DO NOT BY THIS DVD DO NOT LISTEN TO OTHER REVIEWERS DO NOT BY THIS MOVIE.I own almost every zombie movie on the market i bought this to help finish of my collection i watched through this agenising peice of #*=*! for 84 minutes and when it finished i got my gun and went hunting for the crack smoker that made this piece of mind rot i couldent find him thow turns out someone beat me to it.
DO NOT BUY ON PAIN OF DEATH!!!!!!!!!!