Dead Man's Shoes

Paddy Considine - Richard
Gary Stretch - Sonny
Toby Kebbell - Anthony
Paul Sadot - Tuff
Andrew Shim - Elvis
Stuart Wolfenden - Herbie

Vigilante vengeance comes to the sleepy streets of Matlock in Dead Man's Shoes, Shane Meadows' low-budget tale of carefully planned carnage and morality. Meadows' script collaborator Paddy Considine delivers a fantastic nihilistic performance working from his own script peppered with improvised dialogue.

Richard (Paddy Considine), a disaffected ex-Para back in town to track down the local drug dealers who tortured his retarded brother Anthony (Tony Kebbell). Holed up in a deserted farm, tortured soul Richard heads back into town wearing a gas mask and starts off by spooking them. Then things turn nasty as a series of DIY murders involving army knives, axes, and plastic bags come into play. As the film proceeds we slowly find out exactly what happened to his brother via flashbacks.