Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers arrives in cinemas this Friday in the UK and Ireland, and following Wheatley’s acclaimed Kill List last year, there’s naturally a lot of anticipation surrounding the film.
Debuting at Cannes in the spring, the film has been on the festival circuit in recent months – you can read our review from TIFF here – and after catching a great TV spot for it last week, we’ve now got a new clip to share, that’s not quite work-appropriate.
“Chris (Steve Oram THE MIGHTY BOOSH) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe GARTH MARENGHI’S DARK PLACE) 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 accompanies 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…”
Wheatley is directing from a script co-written by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, both of whom also star in the leads, with the awesome Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) serving as executive producer.
Sightseers is released in the UK and Ireland this Friday, 30th November. Still no word yet on a release date in the US, but hopefully it will be brilliantly received by audiences on our shores in the coming weeks, and land a release in the States early next year. For now, here’s the great new clip from the film, along with a final warning that it contains a small little F-bomb at the end. Enjoy.
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