SummaryChris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
SummaryChris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Director Wheatley has already shown his aptitude for sardonic horror-commentaries, and Sightseers is his best film to date. Sightseers is dark, gruesome, blithely amoral and thoroughly entertaining.
This is a somewhat typical British dark comedy film, where the setting doesn't really match the tone of the film at all. It may appear a bit mundane but then I suppose it gives the more surprising plot twists more of an edge when they suddenly appear (I won't give any precise spoilers, so as hopefully not to, you guessed it, spoil it).
I found the dialogue a little hard to follow in parts as characters can be a bit mumbly at times. Also, any film that features deadpan delivery of the place name 'dingly dell' gets at the least a smirk from me. Speaking of that, I also thought it was amusing (to an extent) just that its set on a caravan park - maybe that says more about me? I don't know, you can make your own mind up about that (or not). There's a quirky sense to it, even if it is both mundane and features deadpan unemotional dialogue. There is some relatively violent (including bloody) visual imagery present, so it's not ideal for the especially squeamish but I certainly wouldn't say its a run of the mill slasher type film either. It's definitely not. I've seen a few Bean Wheatley films and this is my favourite out of them. I also thought that Alice Lowe gave a particularly good performance as Tina, a constantly concerned/angry/on edge lady and the main female character.
I liked the music used, which has a slightly doom-laden feel to it, without being too over the top (believe it or not) and I thought the end scene was quite memorable - it has something of an artistic feel to it almost. I would recommend this film, yes.
The type of movie the British have always excelled out, demented dark comedies. And this road trip come serial killer flick is a fine addition to other black comedies from the UK.
It might not sound much on paper, but it’s all in the delivery, the appealing lead performances combining with Wheatley's sudden tonal shifts to produce a film that’s funny, sinister and strangely moving.
Darkly funny though it is, Sightseers has undercurrents of genuine and very British weirdness...Way down beneath the whimsy is a class rage as heartfelt as it is warped.
Scrub away the gore and the nastier bits of provocation, and Ben Wheatley's Sightseers belongs squarely in the tradition of British classics like "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "The Ruling Class" — satires that transformed simmering class resentment into brittle, nasty dark comedy.
Ben Wheatley drew my attention with his last outing 'Kill List', a twisted layered horror film and was very keen to see his follow up. This time around the horror is portrayed through a very dark and sinister British "comedy". The lead characters are delightfully wicked in a story well woven and with a wonderful build up and a brilliant ending. Can't wait to see what Ben will bring us next.
A newly involved couple take a caravan trip and ….. well, to say any more would spoil the film. Directed by Ben Wheatley, Sightseers, is a (very) dark horror-comedy with a similar tone to that of Hot Fuzz, not least thanks to the rather graphic violence. Thanks in large part to the lead pair of Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, who give superbly understated performances, the movie certainly works for the most part and is well worth a watch.
Sightseers has possibly the biggest change in tone of any movie ever. In the first 20 minutes it goes from being bizarre and reasonably upbeat to being bizarre and very very dark. But quite funny.
By way of laughs I wasn't exactly satisfied, out of the moments which I did laugh at, the jokes were usually witty and clever. However in some places it got unpredictably juvenile and lost it's intelligence, this did not happen a lot only in the more mature scenes but I felt the movie could have done without it. Apart from being entertaining as a simple comedy, Sightseers is also very arty and was even shown at Cannes. This is probably because of the brilliant cinematography in the worryingly funny murder scenes. It was at the same level as the masterful camera angles Stanley Kubrick used in such as A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.
Sightseers is a chilling and very funny black (not bleak) comedy which succeeds at being serious and realistic but enjoyable at the same time. The phrase strangely enjoyable has never been so fitting. Much like the close to perfect 2013 movie Don Jon, I was almost ashamed to laugh in Sightseers. That doesn't stop me recommending it.
This is an interesting horror/dark comedy that just falls short. I just couldn't get around the needless murdering of just random people to recommend this film.
This is a bad film.. the best I can say about it is;" lovely tour of the English countryside despite the disturbing sexual content and graphic psychotic violence."