"An outright masterpiece. Comic, touching and drop-dead terrifying."

DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping - This could do for slasher movies what ‘28 Days Later’ did for zombie flicks."
****

EMPIRE

"Dark, gritty, funny and chilling. The best Brit film you've seen this year, possibly the best film full stop."
*****

ZOO

Soundtrack featuring Aphex Twin, Calexico, Smog, The Earlies and Gravenhurst available from 4th October on Warp Records.

Review from Edinburgh Festival:

"The spotlight (was) on British actor Paddy Considine, who delivered stand-out performances in two very different films: Shane Meadows's Dead Man's Shoes and Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. These films were the crowning glories of a very strong British line-up, an area where Edinburgh has a proud tradition.

Meadows gave Considine his debut in A Room for Romeo Brass five years ago and the actor almost reprises his role as a dark, brooding ex-army presence in Dead Man's Shoes, a sort of 21st-century Jacobean revenge drama. Blending Rambo with Charles Bronson in Death Wish, Considine returns to an unspecified Midlands town to hunt down the drug dealers who wronged his younger brother, picking them off like a sadistic child toying with an insect's legs.

Both Considine and Meadows excel at subtle modulations of tone, juggling breezy comedy with moments of menace and outbreaks of wince-inducing violence. Considine specialises in playing the kind of bloke you never want to laugh at because you never know how he'll take it. He brings an animalistic physical fluidity to his role here, popping up everywhere like a surprise and a secret.

For Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes is a return to the form of Romeo Brass after the uncertainties of Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. He has a gift for harnessing the modern vernacular and a wonderful eye for comic detail - the drug dealer's flat is a masterpiece of grunge, stuffed with dodgy electrical goods, porn mags, bongs and filthy tie-dye throws."

Jason Solomons, The OBSERVER

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