Sightseers

Plot synopsis:
Chris (Steve Oram) is a caravan fan and aspiring writer who takes his girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) on a road trip, much to the chagrin of Tina's mother (Eileen Davies), who has never forgiven Tina for the death of their dog "Poppy". At their first stop, the National Tramway Museum), Chris confronts a man (Tony Way) who is littering, and the man refuses to pick up his rubbish. When they get back to their car, Chris runs him over and kills him. Chris claims that the death was an accident, but smirks after the impact, unseen by Tina. Chris tells Tina that she is his muse.
They meet Janice (Monica Dolan, Ian Jonathan Aris) and their dog Banjo (who resembles Poppy) at a caravan park and Janice reveals that Ian is a published writer, something that makes Chris jealous. The next morning Ian goes for a walk. Chris follows him, hits him in the head with a rock, steals his camera and pushes him off a cliff. Tina takes Banjo with them as they go. Tina finds photos of Ian and Janice on the camera and confronts Chris, who confesses to Ian's murder. Tina accepts this. During a walk through a National Trust park, Banjo defecates on the ground and a tourist (Richard Lumsden) tells Tina to clear up the mess. Chris arrives and encourages Tina to claim that the man tried to rape her. A row ensues, and Chris beats him to death.
At the next caravan park, Chris meets Martin (Richard Glover), an engineer who is testing a mini-caravan that can be attached to the back of a bicycle. During a meal in a restaurant, Tina goes to the bathroom. When she returns, she finds Chris kissing the bride from the hen party at a nearby table as part of a bachelorette dare. Upset, Tina follows the bride outside and kills her by pushing her down a steep hill onto some rocks, observed by Chris. The next morning, instead of visiting a local tourist attraction, Chris says he is helping Martin make some modifications to his caravan. They argue, and Tina drives off alone. Upset, she calls her mother and is about to confess to the murders, when her mother hangs up. Later that night, Tina tries to seduce Chris by talking about their complicity in the murders, but he rejects her.
Chris wakes up to find Tina has left him sleeping in the caravan and is speeding down the highway. He calls her and tells her to pull over. Tina notices a jogger and runs him over. Chris is upset with her chaotic approach to the murders, believing himself to be justified in his choice of victims, and argue before hiding the body at the side of the road. They drive to a mountain, where they set up camp with the Ribblehead Viaduct in sight, the final destination on their holiday. When a hailstorm forces them back inside the caravan, Chris falls asleep and Tina looks at his notebook, finding a drawing of her and Chris standing on the viaduct, about to jump.
Martin arrives, with Banjo in the mini-caravan. While Chris is outside, Tina tries to seduce Martin, who is made uncomfortable by her advances and rejects her. When Chris returns, she tells him that Martin propositioned her in a particularly implausible and repulsive manner. Martin returns to his mini-caravan, and Chris and Tina have a fight over whether the dog should be called by the name "Poppy" or "Banjo". Upset, Tina pushes Martin's mini-caravan off the cliff, with him still in it. She re-enters their caravan and tells Chris that the problem is over. He runs outside, and finds Martin's dead body. He insults Tina and they fight, which ends in them having sex.
Chris sets the caravan on fire and kisses Tina. They run to the Ribblehead Viaduct and climb to the top, holding hands. Chris asks Tina if she enjoyed the holiday and she says it was brilliant. He apologises for insulting her and asks if she really wants to kill herself. Just as Chris steps off the viaduct, Tina lets go of his hand, watching as he falls to the ground and dies. Tina stares at her hand as the screen cuts to black.

Tags: comedy, satire, murder

Review:
Ben Wheatley provides one of the year's darkest and funniest comedies in this tale of true love, caravans and dead bodies.Ever since her terrier Poppy died in a bizarre knitting accident, Tina (Darkplace's Alice Lowe) has lived a sheltered life with her mother.
Wheatley shows directorial flair, but reigns it in from his previous work Kill List, leading to a much tighter film, with a concentration on the biting wit of the script.Sightseers, overall, plays out like a cross between Bonnie & Clyde and In Bruges, leading to a perfect pitch-black comedy that's not for the faint hearted..
Described by some as a "dark comedy", I would say that the only thing possibly darker than Wheatley's sense of humor would be the center of a black hole."Sightseers" tells the story of a frumpy British couple off on 'holiday' (as they say,) the problems that come up on such trips, and the unique way they choose to solve them.
I was glad that booking this hilarious black comedy at the Melbourne International Film Festival was so worth it.The story is centered around an odd couple; Chris (Steve Oram); who takes his girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) around the British towns of rural England for inspiration for a book he's writing, However their circumstances take unusual turns until things go horribly wrong.I may of heard about director Ben Weatley's earlier films' but haven't caught up yet.
This film however show he's a skilled filmmaker able to bring a promising film like this to viewers of adult comedy.Sightseers is woefully original, full of witty dialouge, charming characters and some of the best British Black Humour I have seen in a long time if not ever.
It's going to satisfy a minority audience, but those few who do relish the thought of another dark, very dark, British comedy are going to absolutely delight in it.Falling somewhere between Dexter and The League of Gentlemen (and if you don't know it, try Big Woman out for size – a Desert Island Disc if I'm ever invited on), Sightseers is a road movie about an odd couple with all manner of demons swirling around their minds.
More than that, it's a standout film for the year and, though not quite on the humour plane of The Guard, it's the funniest film I've seen this year so far and has marked out Wheatley's follow up, A Field in England, as a film to look forward to in 2013.After yesterday's battle with First Great Western trains and the threat of dark happenings in the company of caravanners, I think I'm going to stick to my car in future.For more reviews from The Squiss subscribe to my blog at www.thesquiss.co.ukLike the Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/RpitOG.
I was so disappointed with this, I love black comedy's but this was terrible the only reason I watched it was because at the time it had a 7.1 score, I don't know how it got that, poor unoriginal story that's been overdone, unlikable characters and its not funny, without a doubt an epic fail, it's one of those films you get the feeling it was either release it to try and make money but add a bad movie to your name or can it and take the losses.
If you enjoy watching freaks acting like freaks then fair dues you will probably like it but if you are looking for a good black comedy you will be seriously disappointed, I couldn't believe this was from the dude who done Shaun of the dead ( its a bit of a disgrace to mention it on the advert/cover for this film/freak show) one of those films that's so bad it makes me angry i wasted my time watching it lol.
how any1 has given this anything over a 2 amazes me, and even more so it disgusts me that the producers even bother to make such utter crap..its even more annoying that IMDb makes you wright 10 lines before you can leave any comments for future readers to see, if it wasn't bad enough i wasted 88minutes of my life watching this rubbish its even worse having to write this, just to warn any fellow black comedy movie lovers, you've been warned...
Alice Lowe's Tina is, in particularly, a completely grotesque and near-unwatchable creation.Worth watching for the beautiful scenery, then - I'm the kind of guy who loves the kind of holiday undertaken by the characters here - and a few amusing scenes spaced out here and there, but a lesser beast in contrast to Wheatley's DOWN TERRACE and KILL LIST..
Tonight, in a Q&A following a screening of the movie, director Ben Wheatley, when asked how a movie like this, with such wanton killing and gore could be called a comedy, defended the movie by admitting that he found humor in movies such as Taxi and Apocalypse Now. If smashed up faces and blood squirting out of a severed neck are your brand of humor, you will love the Sightseers.
After only two films - cul-de-sac gangster comedy Down Terrace and the horror mindf*ck Kill List - British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has quickly developed a remarkable talent for taking well-versed sardonic British humour and subjecting it to abuse under the weight of grim story lines.
A dysfunctional rom-com road movie, it makes you squirm and swoon in equal measure.Celebrating their three month anniversary, aspiring novelist Chris (Steve Oram) takes his dimwitted girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) away on a lovely caravanning holiday across rainy, pastoral England.
Some couples play scrabble, Tina and Chris kill people.Whilst Ben Wheatley and regular DP Laurie Rose certainly have creative license on the look and macabre tone of the film, a great deal of Sightseers depth, and even heart, naturally emerges from the collaboration between lead players Oram and Lowe.
If you fell asleep after watching a double bill of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May and Terrence Malick's Badlands, you might wake up with the idea for Sightseers, the latest film from Ben Wheatley, acclaimed director of Down Terrace and Kill List.
Alice Lowe and Steve Oram play Tina and Chris, a couple who head out on a caravan tour of Yorkshire's Peak District, taking in such points of interest as the Crich Tramway Museum, Ribblehead Viaduct and the Keswick Pencil Museum.
When the none-too-bright Tina finally cottons onto the fact that Chris has murdered at least two people since their sightseeing holiday began, she faces a stark choice between returning alone to her overbearing mother, or continuing to accompany her barmy boyfriend on his murderous spree – the option of shopping him to the authorities apparently not occurring to her.Sightseers was dreamed up by Lowe and Oram as a logical extension of characters they have played on stage for several years, and as a work of character observation, Tina and Chris feel as real as any created by Mike Leigh, using a similar kind of improvisational character workshopping with his repertoire of actors.
Horror fans will no doubt delight in the bloody direction Wheatley's black comedy takes, laughing with glee as each new murder is carried out and excused, in increasingly episodic fashion, with diminishing returns, until an ending is suddenly decided upon, seemingly for no better reason than the feature-length clock has run out.
Yet, like the best of them (or certainly in this case, the worst) it will doubtless gain a cult following among some or other dispossessed section of society that would find brutal, sadistic murder funny.It's the kind of thing that makes you want to shake your fist, raging at where funds from the British Film Industry are heading.
Not much to say really,i'm normally big fun of English comedy but this was just awful.Boring dialogs.Average acting.No humor at all.Especially not "laugh out loud" that you gonna see on the cover of DVD box.Please save yourself precious time and sleep or something,anything really but DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.BTW there should be 0 in the ratings cause there are movies who deserved it largely.I have to say that this isn't the only comedy i've seen lately that wasn't funny at all.Maybe its new trend to make not funny comedies or something.Wouldn't know but i start to miss properly funny English movies..
5th time of watching this dark moody comedy just brilliant movie,, the 2 main characters are fantastic and the mother tops it off, great British comedy at its best!!!!.
There's the germ of a good idea behind 'Sightseers' – a very ordinary (and somewhat repressed) English couple (who could be extra from a Mike Leigh movie) go on a caravanning holiday across England – and end up becoming serial killers.
Without giving anything away, the ending was lazy on the writers' part and made almost no sense.All in all though, I would recommend this film to anyone who gets British humour and likes quirky, dark comedy..
Though, really, she just murders anyone who crosses her, or whoever might arbitrarily be in the vicinity when she gets upset.Like she did before him, though, Chris eventually comes around to accept Tina's new-found tendencies toward murder.But it becomes ultimately clear that Tina has taken the upper hand when she discovers Chris' deepest, darkest fantasies- inevitably leading to the conclusion of the film.Sightseers is another brilliant black comedy-horror concoction from the twisted mind of Ben Wheatley- who is proving himself to be one of the most exciting new director's out there (especially after his $30,000 masterpiece- A Field In England).
i read all the great reviews for this film and went on to rent it out, what a disappointment, i watched it with my wife ,who is a big horror fan, we didn't like it, or even get it, the two main characters were unlikeable, even the numerous sex scenes didn't keep our interest,it was offensive at time, without spoiling it, if thats possible it was like a comedy show skit that went on too long.i think the film would have been much better without the murders, just as a drama, i like murder and horror films, but these were meaningless.i wouldn't recommend this film to anybody, and i quite liked 'sex lives of the potato men'.
A follow-up to the unrelentingly grim Kill List, Sightseers is another social-realist slant on an existing genre, this time the whimsical road movie.PM David Cameron might want a British film industry that churns out pseudo-Hollywood blockbusters, but as a nation glamour isn't our creative currency - we're at our best when examining the inherent crapness of things.
Even Bond has to slum it with a wireless these days.Chris and Tina (played by comedians Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, who also wrote the film) are Bonnie and Clyde and Withnail and I, roaming the British countryside, visiting pencil museums and tram museums, violently murdering litterbugs and Daily Mail readers.
The movie is genuinely hilarious in parts with some very British and very dark humour, perfect for those who loved classics like Shaun of the Dead.The two main characters, Tina and Chris, complement each other perfectly and there is a natural on-screen chemistry between the two.
Two middle aged British tourists discover a mutual passion for murder after accidentally running over a fellow sightseer with their caravan in this black comedy filmed on location in the (ironically) beautiful English countryside.
Alice Lowe and Steve Oram (who wrote the script together) are excellent are the murderous couple in question and the film takes some sharp stabs at British pretension with the couple saying things such as "he's not a person; he's a Daily Mail reader" after disposing of those who annoy them in various ways.
'Sightseers' on the other hand, follows couple Chris and Tina (played by real life couple Steve Oram and Alice Lowe) who decide to embark on a caravanning holiday across the countryside' "an erotic odyssey" is what they call it.
However, since Wheatley has said that it takes place in the same world as his previous two films, it's unsurprising that there is a dark twist to the plot – Chris and Tina kill people.'Sightseers' is one of those black comedies that strike the perfect balance between the laughs and the shocks.
They both deliver great performances in the film with effortless chemistry, feeling like real people, whether they're casually strolling through a museum or bashing someone's head in.Despite being a terrific film, 'Sightseers' is most definitely not for everyone – the couple are oddly likable, but the script (written by Oram and Lowe) goes to no effort to make us sympathise with them; their actions are never anything but horrible, but while the depictions of the violence may been too much for more squeamish viewers, it's nowhere near as graphic as 'Kill List'.
such as his homicidal psychosis: Chris deals with litter-louts and jerks with brutal efficiency, making him a dangerously exciting partner for Tina and an anti-hero of sorts for frustrated, stoic Brits, for whom complaining is a concept almost as abhorrent as bashing in someone's brains with a rock.Directed by Ben Wheatley (whose previous film Kill List left me disappointed with its derivative Wicker Man-style twist) and often compared to Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, Sightseers was about as high up on my 'must see' list as the Crich National Tramway Museum; however, following a recommendation by a friend whose opinion is mostly reliable, I decided to give it it a whirl anyway and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the film's dark and demented sense of humour.Much of the film's success is undoubtedly down to faultless central performances from stars Lowe and Oram, who share excellent chemistry and superb comic timing (and make everything sound even funnier with their excellent Black Country accents), but I also believe that Wheatley is improving both as a storyteller and an artist: Sightseers flows far better than Kill List and sees the director experimenting with his visual style.
Sightseers is the new film from director Ben Wheatley who last year terrified everyone with the chilling Kill List.This time around the hard edge of horror remains but it has been softened by writers, and co-stars, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram as an extension of characters they have played onstage for several years.The brilliant tagline essentially tells you all you need to know about the plot – 'a ginger man and an angry woman embark on an erotic caravan odyssey' – although that leaves out the minor detail that is the spate of murders they commit along the way.Up until the first gory death, Sightseers is a sweet holiday tale as Tina and Chris set off against the wishes of Tina's suspicious mother.And it's to the films great credit that it maintains that charm throughout the horrors that follow.Black humour is notoriously difficult to perfect but the mixture of laugh out loud moments and audible gasps that the film induces is perfectly handled...
a film not to be advised.The remarkable Steve Oram (Chris) and Alice Lowe (Tina) set aside their camping clobber and are off on dark gory holiday to the west of Yorkshire.
Well acted, from the same stable as Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead (Producer, Edgar Wright) but without the comedy genius of Simon Pegg, it was sort of hard to watch and more cringeworthy than comic.The actors, Steve Oram (Chris) and Alice Lowe (Tina) play a new couple who on their first holiday away find that there is a moral flexibility, and homicidal tendencies in both of them.
Sightseers is a British black comedy horror film about a couple in a newly found relationship that, evolves when they take a caravan holiday together.
sightseers is a film about a new couple called Tina(Alice Lowe)and Chris(Steve oram)who has only been together for 3 months and take a trip around England in a caravan.
this film was not the sort I would normally watch but I did end up enjoying it because it takes the weird British caravanning holiday and turn it into a dark comedy.
Can I just say that this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, having see Ben Wheatley's previous offering Kill List which I enjoyed up until the last 10 minutes, I was hoping for something a bit more flowing and understated.I was not disappointed, the 2 main characters played by Steve Oram and Alice Lowe were superb, Steve's character Chris is incredibly ordered and anything that veers from his 'normality' clearly drives him beyond reason, Alice's Tina is a little powder keg, who's character develops beautifully from downtrodden daughter to homicidal maniac without her heart skipping a beat, you can sense the tension and a perverse sexual energy bubbling under her dowdy surface.The 2 lover's go on their 1st holiday together in Chris's caravan, touring such delights as the blue John Caverns and the Crich Tramway museum, meeting normal, believable characters along the way, you cannot help but feel sorry for some of these who in various situations manage to cross the seemingly dull ordinary midlands couple, yet you also can't really dislike the 2 main players either, genuinely funny without trying and deadpan deliveries make this a joyous British film with laugh out loud moments aplenty.The matriarchal character played by Eileen Davies although not on screen much steals the show, I defy anybody not to laugh at her on screen antics.All the people the touring lover's come across are underplayed and believable, anybody who has been to places such as the site's shown in this movie will relate with the characters in this movie.Overall, any fans Black Comedy will love this, beautifully shot in gorgeous British Countryside with strong likable leads and bit players, the ending was also a lot better than Kill List:).
Sightseers is a dark, surreal, extraordinary and gory film directed by Ben Wheatley and was written by the 2 main actors in the film Alice Lowe and Steve Oram who play Tina and Chris.
On the way Chris finds motives to kill people and Tina seems to enjoy doing it too.This film was meant to be a comedy, Personally I thought it was really boring and slow.