10 'Rotten' Films That Will Eventually Be Viewed As Classics

3. Dead Man's Shoes

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 57% Why It'll Be Re-Assessed As A Classic: Met with a curiously underwhelming reaction stateside, Dead Man's Shoes is seemingly more appreciated in the UK than across the Atlantic, where it was belatedly released in 2006. Indeed, it's already considered a classic in some quarters - it made Empire magazine's 201 Great Movies Of All Time in 2006, while Time Out included it in its list of 100 Best British Films. And yet, Dead Man's Shoes is still marked as 'rotten' on RT. That would be despite the film being one of Brit wunderkind Shane Meadows' very best, a revenge thriller styled like a slasher movie, only taken from the perspective of the murderer. It's a sinister, twisted tale, semi-improvised and laced with black comedy and gore. Dead Man's Shoes also features a signature performance from a monumental Paddy Considine, as the vengeful Richard, punishing the small-time crooks that bullied his mentally handicapped brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell, also excellent). As Anthony was taken advantage of for his weakness, Richard responds in kind, by reducing the thugs to weeping, drug-addled wrecks - before terminating them with extreme prejudice, of course.