score was added when the original Shaw Brothers score horrified music director Philip Martell who thought it "absolutely appalling". Release Shatter was not released initially in the United Kingdom. Shatter was released in the United States as Call Him Mr. Shatter by Avco Embassy Pictures in March 1975. Shatter remained unreleased in the United Kingdom. until being distributed by EMI in September 1977. Plans to turn Shatter into a television series starring Stuart Whitman were shelved. It was released on VHS in the United States with the alternative title They Call Me Mr. Shatter. Reception Variety gave the film a negative review, finding the film "dull and sloppy, though there are a few scenes of entertaining hokum" noting Ti Lung's martial arts sequences being "choreographed with unusual skill, but that kind of stuff is getting stale by now" Carreras later spoke about the film stating it was "unfortunately, a bad picture, no question about it. We ran into all sorts of problems, and like all pictures that are bad, I think it was badly conceived from the start. One did all sorts of things to try and save it, but it didn't work." However, as is the case with many otherwise 'bad' films, interest can be found in the 'on location' footage, here of early Seventies Hong Kong. References Sources External links 1975 films British action films Hong Kong action films English-language Hong Kong films Shaw Brothers Studio films Hammer Film Productions films Films directed by Michael Carreras Films about contract killing 1974 martial arts films 1974 films Embassy Pictures films 1970s English-language films 1970s British films 1970s Hong Kong films