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Summary: I bought this on a whim
Review: I happened upon this movie on Amazon, and bought it becuase of its ridiculously long and stupid title. I thought it would be an awful piece of film that my friends and I could laugh at over beers. However, much to my surprise, the movie was well written, fairly well played and the filmmakers show surprising talent despite the embarassing production quality. I was shocked that a silly tale about college students following in the footsteps of Frankenstein shot on digital video could be so creative, but this was the case. Try out the video and you too may be pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: Wow...
Review: I have seen bad movies. I LIKE bad movies. I am in the process of collecting every Godzilla movie ever made for crying out loud! And all I can say of Shatter Dead even now, over a month after watching it is...Wow. That is bad, I mean really really really bad. Not bad as in "Ha ha, I see the monsters zipper!" But bad as in "Hey Bob they just found your Grandmother in the lake dead! Ha ha, I'm just kidding, she's not in the lake! But serioulsy, she is dead though." kinda bad. Ok to recap incase you either didn't read or just didn't understand what everyone else was saying (except for one dude who maybe was the one who made it) this is a movie that has a story idea that could REALLY work to make a good movie:
(there a new paragraph you happy now?) After the Angel of Death gets a woman pregnant (only reason I know this is because the back explains it) no one is able to die anymore. The dead become unwanted citizens, and are made to be outcasts. Good story idea right, I thought so too, so I bought the movie. It gets worse from there, to me though, it was salvagable as a really really really bad movie up until the main character reaches her destination, staps a gun to the groin of her dead boyfriend and has an explicit sex scene and then well, yeah the girl has sex with a gun attached to a guys groin, not simulated, she HAS SEX WITH A GUN. So, if you are into that, get the movie just for that scene, skip the movie up to the point she makes it to her boyfriends house and have a ball. If you are not, save the money, the time, and that little bit of you that those of us who have seen it have all lost and can recognize as missing. DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention that I like Bad movies and this one was probably the worst or right up there with the worst movie I have ever seen?
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Summary: Take mercy on yourselves, don't buy it!
Review: I must be honest and sincere with you good folk. I have read many reviews on this film and I have seen it myself. The film is what I would describe as "god awful" or "terrible in every respect". The idea was not a bad one, god abandons the world and the dead walk the earth, but it was horribly pulled off (or rather not pulled off). There is decent gore, but there are not enough gallons of blood to wash away the dirty feeling you get from this movie. There is also some nudity, but you wish there wasn't. There was no plot, no ending, and the dialogue was worthless. I only wish there was a lower rating I could give it. I read that it only took 2 weeks from the conception of the idea for the movie to finishing editing and all to make this movie, man does it show. I wish I could communicate how bad this movie is by comparing it to something else, but this level of pure unadulterated .... is previously unprecedented. It is the worst movie I have seen in my entire life and I sat through "Spice World". Didn't find that helpful? How about some recommendations for good Zombie/horror flicks? Great Serious Zombie Movies: Night Of The Living Dead (original and remake), Day Of The Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Junk (if you don't mind subtitles), and Zombi. Great Cheesmo Zombie Movies: Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army Of Darkness, Dead Alive, and Hard Rock Zombies (totally 80's). Great Non-zombie Horror Movies: Hellraiser, Halloween 1&2, Dagon, The Amityville Horror, IT, Rose Red (I don't care what you say), Phantasm (all of them), and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Summary: It took me 8 years to like it.
Review: I originally got the VHS version of this after reading about this movie in Fangoria almost ten years ago. I was interested in filmmaking and horror so I checked it out. The video look was very hard to digest and to be honest I couldnt get past it enough to even see what the director/writer Scooter McCrae was trying to say. My filmmaking aspirations died shortly after due to economics and emotional immaturity.
Years later my interest was rekindled due to a number of factors(digital technology, mundanity of the working world) and I revisited the movie. I finally got what Scooter was trying to get at and what went into the production.
This movie is intelligent and extremely nihilistic. The heroine is attractive and has these expressive eyes that convey the anger, weariness, and hope she has to return to her boyfriend. The carnage is almost cartoon like and hopeless. No one will ever die again no matter how mangled they are. Truly hell on earth!! Shatter Dead is not an escapist or popcorn flick, its also not pretentious or artsy. Its a satisfying experience that is almost an anti-movie. Its understandable that few would enjoy this but those few exist and should get this.
Oh yeah and for all those who say "I coulda shot a better movie than this with a camcorder and my friends" why not try? Youll see the planning, equipment, and execution of shooting rather difficult and challenging. Ive seen too many good SOV flicks to rip on someones format choice. Also recommend: At Dawn They Sleep and Meat Market.
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Summary: find another movie to buy
Review: I read about this long ago in fangoria magazine.they said it was great,they were wrooooooong.I love low budget movies that have style or story,this flick has nothing.It does have lots of nudity by some people who honestly do not need to be flashing there stuff.you would be better off renting a dumb b movie than ...this.
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Summary: Fear the Hype - Avoid this movie
Review: I wish I could recommend this film. I honestly like low budget wacky films but SHATTER DEAD is simply uninspired and hugely unlikeable. I thought I was going to get a "Jess Franco Lite" film from the description on the sleeve. Hoo-boy, was I wrong! From the looks of things, this would appear to be one of those films that the cast had a great time making. Unfortunately, none of that fun translates to the audience through the actual movie. The script is so heavily pun riddled that the director must have considered himself to be an evil genius - it's just that remarkably pretentious. And nobody likes a pretentious horror/schlock film. You have a plot (the dead won't die) that isn't very new or inspired and it never really develops into anything beyond stating the this is the plot. Nothing interesting ever happens. It starts. It goes on. It ends. Unfortunately...not soon enough. It's not even a worthwhile time-waster. Go watch some real Jess Franco films instead and at least grovel in your guilty pleasures and enjoy yourself.
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Summary: [bad]
Review: I'm the biggest zombie movie fan ever and i also love a good ... movie, but this film fails in both respects. It's not even funny bad, just annoying and so low budget, the film looks like a home movie. And if this doesn't scare u away from the film, i think the fact that the zombies talk and beg for change on the street might keep zombie fans away. A huge waste of money.
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Summary: A horror movie with a story!
Review: Low producation values, horrible acting, okay stunts, cheap zombie make-up, yes Shatter-Dead is obviously all these, but so what? The dead refuse to stay alive, but instead of cannibalizing everyone, they try and finish off the living so everyone living will be just like them: rotting and living forever. Led by a wordy priest with a cool hat, the story of the dead revolves around Stark Raven who fights for her life and tries to find her way home through this mass of confusion. At one point, just to give you a taste of how this movie works, we get a Howard Stern look-alike in tights who shoots a pregnant woman in the stomach and says, "He shoots, he scores!" The bare bones of it: some parts are slow, the music annoying, and the acting cut-rate, but as a story--yes, a good story--this movie breaks new ground; Scooter was thinking on this one. If you're an indie film fan, this is a must, but otherwise, approach with caution.
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Summary: A word for Stark Raven
Review: OK, I basically agree with all the negative things people are saying about this film's low-budget unwatchability, the talkiness, etc. And if you want to say the acting could be better, fine. But I'm amazed by all the outright hostility toward the lead actress, who is actually a very attractive woman. In fact, pretty much all this movie has going for it is the "sexy" element (and the way it's being marketed, with all the revealing photos of Stark Raven, shows the filmmakers are well aware of this!). So it seems that the people who like the lead actress are staying silent. I wonder if some of the reviewers are displaying a masculinist phobia--as if they feel the need to "punish" a woman who engaged in some very unconventional nude scenes. But it took guts for Stark Raven to do these scenes (a Hollywood actress needn't worry, since with all the lighting, post-production, etc., she's practically a special effect by the time she hits the screen). And the x-rated scene that people consistently refer to is actually very subdued, considering that it's shot in an "artsy" way with all this overlaying of images. In sum, I think this DVD is worth buying, if only for her. And this DVD edition has a welcome guest appearance by her in the special features section--seven or eight years after the original movie, she looks amazing, way better than she did in 1995! Instead of condemning Stark Raven, I say that horror filmmakers should give her more roles, if she's interested.
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Summary: How to destroy an interesting premise...
Review: The movie started out with an interesting premise: When the Angel of Death impregnates a mortal woman, the dead stop dying. But instead of the dead trying to gnaw on the living, they simply exist - roaming the earth with no purpose. If done right, this could have been a good movie, but since this is low budget indie it get's ugly in alot of places. And it really takes some skill to take this premise and produce a horrible movie, but it has been done here. I too, was excited after reading the desription on the back of the case but 5 minutes into the movie I knew what I was in for, a sleep-inducing bore. We have it all here: a gasoline siphoning one-armed zombie, a Lex Luthor clone preacher, a freaky long haired guy who hits on anyone, a group of undead hillbillies led by Howard Stern's identical twin (who produces the ONLY saving grace of this movie - "HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES!!"), but the final dagger in the heart is Stark Raven, who couldn't act her way out of a...I'm too disturbed to even think of a good analogy. To put it succinctly, she is horrible. I still wonder why she kept a handgun and mirror under her armpit. And in that scene where she is telling the car to stop? It looks like she is trying to use some sort of psychic power to stop it. There is some gore and a sickening scene involving a hand-gun (the gun in this scene is not used in it's normal sense). Disgusting. The movie ends...it just ends, nothing is resolved at all. Avoid this movie, I don't care how many awards this may have won.
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