signs of breathing; discovering he is alive, she shoots him in the head and takes her car back. Eventually, she returns home to Dan, her boyfriend, but discovers that he had previously killed himself by slashing his wrists in the bathtub. He pours her a glass of milk, but covertly slips poison into it before she drinks it; they then have sex by using Susan's pistol as a strap-on, as he is unable to achieve an erection himself due to being dead. Afterwards, Dan reveals the poisoning to her, reasoning that she will be young and beautiful forever once she dies. She threatens to shoot herself to sully her beauty and tries to vomit the poison out, but he prevents her from doing so. However, she manages to shoot him in the head and send him falling out the apartment window before dying. The now-undead preacher happens across Dan, having broken many bones and suffered heavy disfiguration from the fall, and fashions wooden splints to allow him to walk again. Meanwhile, Susan wakes up and enters the bathroom, realizing she is now dead. She takes water from a dripping faucet and puts it into her lifeless eyes. Dan is then heard outside the apartment begging to be let in, as the film abruptly ends. Production Director McCrae and cinematographer Howe were inspired to make their own film after watching low-budget exploitation films and thinking that they could make a better one themselves. After experiencing difficulty in explaining his scripts, McCrae decided to shoot an example of the tone and style that he was attempting to convey; that project became Shatter Dead. Shooting took a total of ten days over a two-month period on weekends. Critical reception Joe Bob Briggs gave the film a positive review and called it "a Night of the Living Dead for the '90s". Bloody Disgusting rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "In all fairness, this is hardcore, uncompromising filmmaking. At the same time, Mr. McCrae should perhaps flesh out his ideas a bit more before putting them to film." G. Noel Gross of DVD Talk called the film "an esoteric zombie odyssey that plods along like a Euro-horror epic punctuated by violent ejaculations of carnage." Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "Though the premise is fresh and there is a plentiful supply of good raw ideas, the movie is built around character