Monday, October 16, 2006 10:55:17 AM
DVD PICK
Dead Man's Shoes
You had better not mind seeing blood - lots of blood - when viewing
Dead Man's Shoes.
Some gory, ghastly, gruesome and downright ungodly
deeds are performed during this 90-minute motion picture bloodbath.
That being sad, this is still a film worth giving a spin in the DVD slot.
After all barbaric and violent acts are nothing new to drama, just pick up Shakespeare.
Set in a Midlands village, Dead Man's Shoes explores the underbelly of contemporary
rural Britain in communities where crime is unchecked and drugs, intimidation, and
power games are blandly accepted as the fabric of daily life.
Richard (Paddy Considine) has always protected his simple-minded little brother Anthony
(Toby Kebbell). When Richard leaves the rural village where they have grown up to join
the army, Anthony is taken in by Sonny (Gary Stretch), a controlling and vicious local
drug dealer and his gang of lads. Anthony becomes the gang's pet and plaything. Seven
years later, Richard returns to settle the score. One by one, he hunts down each member
of the gang and executes them in increasingly elaborate ways as flashbacks reveal the
extent to which his brother suffered at their hands. Dead Man's Shoes is a genre-defying
film blending horror, supernatural elements, comedy, and social realism.
The DVD includes the following special features: audio commentary with director Shane
Meadows, actor/writer Paddy Considine and producer Mark Herbert, deleted scenes, extended
takes, an alternate ending and featurette In Shane's Shoes.
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