Dead Man's Shoes released through Warp Films, plus Soundtrack through Warp Records.

"Dead Man’s Shoes", the first full-length feature from Warp Films is out now. A genre-defying film pitching horror and the supernatural against comedy and social realism, Dead Man’s Shoes is the brainchild of writer/director Shane Meadows (24/7, A Room for Romeo Brass) and actor/screenwriter Paddy Considine (Last Resort, 24 Hour Party People, Room For Romeo Brass, In America) who collaborated on this semi-improvised, axe-wielding revenge thriller.

The film has recieved nothing less that rave reviews across the board, and is being hailed by some as a landmark in British cinema. Dead Man's shoes just won the top prize at the British Film Festival, see the info on the BBC Site here.

Review from Channel 4 Site

As well as the OST recording released on Warp (see below) there is also a limited-run Graphic Novel available now.
Anjan Sarkar, an aspiring graphic and comic book artist, was hired to draw the storyboards for My Wrongs #8245-8249 and 117 and Dead Man’s Shoes. Using his dark and haunting storyboards as a starting point, Anjan created an eerie 80-page graphic novel based on the Dead Man’s Shoes, sold separately as well as with the DVD release.

The book is published by Warp Films and available to buy in Warpmart now - we have 100 copies signed by Anjan Sarkar! And only Anjan Sarkar, not Shane Meadows as well, as was wrongly suggested on that rumour mill that is the Warp Records mailout. (He was unable to attend the signing due to lots of other commitments)



ARTICLE by Mark Kermode on Dead Man's Shoes and the 'revenge movie' genre.

Set in a Midlands village, in a community where crime is unchecked and drugs, intimidation and power games are accepted as the fabric of daily life, Dead Man’s Shoes explores the decayed underbelly of contemporary rural Britain. Dead Man’s Shoes has become a cult hit, and follows the BAFTA award winning success of Chris Morris’ debut short for WarpFilms in 2002, My Wrongs #8245-8249 and 117

Original Soundtrack Release on Warp:

As you would expect the soundtrack is central to the film: Personally selected by director Shane Meadows, the music provides counterpoints between the great pastures of the Peak District, and the deranged scenes of bloody retribution. The twisted folk of (Smog) and The Earlies is interspersed with the eerie Spaghetti Western feel of Calexico’s instrumental tracks and unsettled calm of Aphex Twin’s ‘Nannou 2’, while heartfelt singer/songwriter narrative songs from Adem, Gravenhurst and Clayhill lend an emotional gravity. Laurent Garnier’s fantastically fucked-up, rhythmic-drone centrepiece ‘Forgotten Thoughts’ accompanies the film’s ‘acid scene’ as the vigilante lead character, Richard, spikes his nemeses’ tea kettle with a lethal psychotropic cocktail... carnage ensues. M. Ward’s cracked and haunting ‘Dead Man’ could not be more fitting.

Like the acclaimed Morvern Callar OST soundtrack released on Warp in 2002, the Dead Man’s Shoes soundtrack stands apart from the film as a thoroughly enjoyable and beautifully sequenced collection of songs that hang together with unusual resonance.

Dead Man’s Shoes OST, WarpCD126, released 4th October 2004.

1. (Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'
2. Calexico 'Untitled II'
3. Calexico 'Untitled III'
4. Adem 'Statued'
5. Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'
6. Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'
7. The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
8. Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'
9. Clayhill 'Afterlight'
10. Calexico 'Crooked Road'
11. Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'
12. Gravenhurst 'The Diver'
13. Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'
14. P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'
15. ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'
16. Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'
17. M. Ward 'Dead Man'
18. DM & Jemini 'The Only One

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Dead Man's Shoes Press:

"Raw, Searing, Magnetic, Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping, this could do for slasher movies what 28 Days Later did for zombie flicks. Paddy Considine, meanwhile, is quietly but steadily building a case to be acclaimed as Britain’s answer to Robert De Niro"
Colin Kennedy HHHH

"Throw in a pinch of humour, a bucketful of drugs and lashings of brutal violence and you’ve got not just the best Brit film you’ve seen this year, possibly the best film full stop. The bottom line: Dark, gritty, funny and chilling" ZOO 5/5

"moving, honest, inspired, brutal, extraordinary. Thought-provoking, poignant and immensely powerful, - Highly recommended."
**** TOTAL FILM Mark Salisbury

"Dead Man's Shoes' is a gripping revenge thriller that walks where other films fear to tread." XFM Tony Scudders

"An outright masterpiece. As powerful as Taxi Driver, and Considine has created a character as memorable as that film’s anti-hero Travis Bickle. Around this extraordinary performance, Meadows builds a story that is by turns comic, touching and drop-dead terrifying. Every scene is compelling, taking unexpected twists and turns that reveal a formidable command of narrative structure and a pitch-perfect control of tone. As it builds to its spine-tingling denouement, Dead Man’s Shoes confirms Meadows and Considine as world class film-makers, up there with the best." SF Said DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Sophisticated, daring and impressive. This harsh, heartrending, beautifully judged film left me speechless. It establishes Meadows as one of the most exciting young directors in Europe."
Hannah McGill THE HERALD