Sightseers (2012)
7/10
Not for all tastes... but great if you 'get it'...
18 January 2014
Nothing like a nice caravanning holiday in the country. Just a girl and her new boyfriend. What's that you say? Someone dropping litter on the floor? Let's run over them, and make it look like an accident. Now, how many pieces of toast would you like with your breakfast? Oh look... a new couple have just moved into our field. The bloke is a bit of a kn*b. Let's ambush him at night, bludgeon him with a stone and nick his dog. Banjo is such a stupid name, isn't it? I know... Let's rechristen him Poppy. That's better. GOOD BOY!! Oops, he's just crapped on the grass... and some loud mouthed posh twit is telling me to pick it up. He shouldn't have done that...

Yep, it's your classic black comedy... Where killing people who irritate you is just a minor inconvenience between days out at the Rail Exhibition or Pencil Factory. You have to possess a certain level of warped perspective to appreciate just how funny this is... and fortunately, my taste for the macabre is off the scale. It's even better later on, as the lady seeks to emulate her serial murderer beau... only to be shouted down, for 'doing it all wrong'. You see... he KNOWS which humans need to be 'dealt with'... she doesn't. He's been doing this sort of thing for a lot longer, ya see. So there's a lover's tiff about who deserves to die. Things don't get much more surreal than that.

Be careful if you go down to the woods today. There may be more than just teddy bears to contend with... 7/10
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