2025 · comedy · fantasy · supernatural
Dead Man's Boots
Directed by Yohann Gloaguen2025
One evening, Prosper, a loser Uber driver who still lives with his mother, picks up a dying man who has just been shot. Freaked out, Prosper gets rid of the body but not before stealing his pair of crocodile boots. As he slips them on, Prosper finds himself inhabited by the spirit of the deceased: King - a respected gangster feared by all. Split between these two opposing personalities, Prosper and King, united in one body, investigate to unmask King's killer.
Our read: Dead Man's Boots (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · fantasy · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
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