Shatter Dead is a 1994 independent zombie film directed by Scooter McCrae. Its plot concerns a dystopian world where the dead no longer stay dead, but remain cognizant of the world around them; amidst this world, a woman named Susan attempts to return home to her boyfriend. Plot In the first scene, a female Angel of Death is seen having sex with a mortal woman, seemingly impregnating her. This causes humans to stop dying, and those who were already dead return to life as disenfranchised vagabonds. 17 months later, a woman named Susan is working her way through a mostly abandoned town on foot, after having bought food; she has armed herself heavily to fend off the undead. While walking through the downtown area, she encounters several undead people begging for money, begrudgingly giving some to a heavily disfigured man. Though the undead seem somewhat bewildered and eager to please, she catches one trying to siphon gasoline from her car; she chases him down and shoots his gas canister, setting him on fire. Susan then returns to her car and leaves town. When her car eventually runs out of gas on a country road, she suddenly finds herself surrounded by a religious cult of zombies led by a preacher, who claims her car "for the service of the Lord," refills the gas tank, and drives off in it. After traveling on foot for a while and stealing another undead person's car, Susan arrives in a new town. She encounters some living people who direct her to a safe house to stay the night. While staying there, she encounters Mary, a dead woman pretending to be alive; they end up showering together, and Susan starts to trust Mary after she opens up about her own death, saying that she committed suicide to be young and beautiful forever. That night, the house is attacked by militant, religiously fanatical zombies who murder every living person in the house, including the pregnant landlady, who enters the bathroom and nurses her dead fetus in the shower afterwards. In the chaos, Susan accidentally shoots Mary in the head. Susan flees the house and encounters the preacher who stole her car. She threatens him while he tries to convince her that death is better than life, opining that the "old generation" of humanity is coming to an end. Susan uses a pocket mirror to check him for