Ben Wheatley, the director of the upcoming IFC release Kill List, is shifting gears with a horror-comedy entitled Sightseers. How does it differ, tonally, from his previous effort? Fangoria caught up to Wheatley for the scoop.
The director told the site: “Sightseers, basically I did it as an antidote to Kill List. Sightseers is warm and it’s like a love story, but it’s also a comedy, but they’re also serial killers and they’re on holiday. The main characters are played by two comedians called Steve Oram and Alice Lowe and there’s a lot of improvisation in the film and I didn’t write the script either. Iâve known Steve and Alice for years and I thought this would be a really good antidote to the misery of Kill List, to do something that was kind of light and silly. Itâs turned out really dark and horrible [laughs], but itâs still pretty funny. Weâre actually just watching it, and it fits with the other two movies. You can see the through line through Down Terrace to Kill List to Sightseers, but itâs certainly not as evil as Kill List is. Itâs a bit warmer.”
Here is the official synopsis for Sightseers Shock discovered last month: Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge…
Look for Kill List on January 4.
Source: Fangoria
