Wheatley updates us on ‘Sightseers’ and new ‘Kill List’ Poster

Kill List left many people pleasantly disturbed following its showing at SXSW this past year.  It has since gone on to thrill crowds as part of the Midnight Madness at TIFF.  The film follows an out of work hitman who after taking a new assignment plunges into a bizarre world of paranoia and death.  Director Ben Wheatley will be making his follow-up to Kill List with two big named projects.  He will be contributing to the ensemble collection The ABC’S Of Death and will also surprise many with a detour into comedic territory.  Wheatley recently spoke to Fangoria about this romantic and comedic horror project, Sightseers.  He goes on to describe what to expect from the film.

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. I’ve 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. It’s turned out really dark and horrible [laughs], but it’s still pretty funny. We’re 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 it’s certainly not as evil as KILL LIST is. It’s a bit warmer.”

The film is being executive produced by someone who is no stranger to horror-comedies: Edgar Wright.  The offiical synopsis for the film is below.

Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through this sceptred isle 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…

Kill List will be hitting VOD on January 4.  Until then, you can enjoy the new poster for the film seen below.

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Source: Fangoria