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Dead Man's Shoes Details

2004 Certificate 18
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  • 70
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Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge... Read more

Starring Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director Shane Meadows
Genres Thriller

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Dead Man's Shoes

Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...

Starring Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director Shane Meadows
Studio OPTIMUM
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed None
Subtitles DVD: None
Released DVD: 28 Feb 2005
Blu-ray: 21 Sep 2009
Production year: 2004
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (6) of Dead Man's Shoes

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Following his spaghetti western homage, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, British writer/director Shane Meadows turns his hand to horror. A grimy, naturalistic subversion of the slasher genre, this morally ambiguous shocker marries the style of 28 Days Later … with gallows humour of the blackest hue. In an uncomfortably matter-of-fact performance, co-writer Paddy Considine plays a tortured ex-army man who returns to the rural Midlands village of his youth to take revenge on a drugs gang who used and abused his younger, mentally challenged brother (Toby Kebbell). With many of the cast being non-actors and much of the dialogue improvised, there's a strong sense of realism that makes the violence portrayed so much more horrific. Initially, events are sweetened somewhat with acerbic wit and dark slapstick, but edgy laughs soon degenerate into grim brutality. It's an abrupt shift that unfortunately destroys the rising tension and turns a powerful, claustrophobic chiller into just another nasty exploitation flick.

    • Radio Times
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Slow-paced drama, set in shabby suburbia and grubby rooms; there's a fault at its heart: the villains are so limited in their pleasures and aspirations that a more satisfying revenge would have been to allow them to continue with their squalid lives.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 111 out of 125 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    as it says on the cover ' one of the best british films in years'

    in fact i think i would probably go as far as saying, this is one of the best films i have seen in years.....full stop. now i understand its not going to be everyones cup of tea, but for those out there who like a great film with some good old fashioned brit-grit watch it! it's one of those films where you dont quite know what to do with yourself after it. i mean i watched this film and thought it was great 3 days after watching it, i thought it was amazing - reason being, i kept on thinking about it, it kept on coming back into my head, i think i was a bit traumatised by it to be honest, but if that isnt the sign of a good film i dont know what is.

    full of grit and grim, very good acting, and a bit of humor thrown in....watch this!

      • Brian Bennett from London
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  • 111 out of 125 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    as it says on the cover ' one of the best british films in years'

    in fact i think i would probably go as far as saying, this is one of the best films i have seen in years.....full stop. now i understand its not going to be everyones cup of tea, but for those out there who like a great film with some good old fashioned brit-grit watch it! it's one of those films where you dont quite know what to do with yourself after it. i mean i watched this film and thought it was great 3 days after watching it, i thought it was amazing - reason being, i kept on thinking about it, it kept on coming back into my head, i think i was a bit traumatised by it to be honest, but if that isnt the sign of a good film i dont know what is.

    full of grit and grim, very good acting, and a bit of humor thrown in....watch this!

      • Brian Bennett from London
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    My Summer Of Love

    Dead Man's Shoes scoops British Film Festival award

    • 10 Oct 2004

    Shane Meadows' revenge thriller, Dead Man's Shoes has scooped the top prize at the British Film Festival in Dinard, France. Judges announced their unanimous decision to give the Hitchcock d'Or award to the film on Saturday. The award is named after Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary director, who once lived in the Brittany town where the festival is held. The British film tells the tale of two brothers who return to their hometown to get even with a gang of petty thugs who used to torture the... Read more

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Rating breakdown

34,137 Member ratings
  • 100
5,622
  • 90
4,274
  • 80
6,685
  • 70
5,288
  • 60
4,418
  • 50
2,820
  • 40
1,843
  • 30
1,393
  • 20
1,194
  • 10
600

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