Ben Wheatley
- Writer, director, editor and executive producer
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Film of the Day - Sightseers
Intoxicatingly dark, comedy-drama, directed by Ben Wheatley, in which oddball couple escape their mundane Midlands lives and embark on a road trip across the north of England.
Gareth Hargreaves, On The Box, 30th March 2017Prevenge: film review
It must be hard enough to write, direct, and star in a film at the best of times, so I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for Alice Lowe to do all these things while heavily pregnant.
Anna Power, The London Economic, 6th February 2017Ben Wheatley interview
Sightseers director Ben Wheatley on caravanning in the UK, the suspicious British, and Mike Leigh's robot movie...
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 18th April 2013Evening Standard Film Award nominations for Sightseers
Sightseers has picked up a nomination for the Film of the Year, Alice Lowe was also listed for Best Actress & director Ben Wheatley is up for The Peter Sellers Comedy Award.
Big Talk Productions, 15th January 2013Ben Wheatley's Sightseers: A caravan tour de force
Ben Wheatley is back with Sightseers - a blackly comic take on the British caravan holiday. But after the darkness of Kill Lis, he admits he's going for more laughs this time.
Tim Masters, BBC News, 28th November 2012Apocalypse archives: Ben Wheatley, Sightseers director
The filmmaker tells us the top five films he'd save at the end of the world.
Gail Tolley, The List, 13th November 2012Sightseers - Four New Posters Released
Ben Wheatley's latest, Sightseers, is shaping up to be a doozy, a bleakly hilarious British Badlands or On The B-Road.
Phil de Semlyen, Empire, 11th October 2012Video: World exclusive trailer for Sightseers
Watch the trailer for the new film from Ben Wheatley, director of Down Terrace and Kill List, who returns with another black comedy. Chris (Steve Oram) is treating his girlfriend, Tina (Alice Lowe) to a caravan tour of the British countryside. It's their dream short break, until other holiday-makers start to jangle Chris's nerves...
The Guardian, 28th August 2012Ideal series six - first look
Here it is - the trailer for Ideal series six. This is the second series of Ideal I've directed and I felt a lot less nervous than last year.
Ben Wheatley, BBC Comedy, 12th August 2010The comic strangeness was prevalent in The Wrong Door, a sketch show that relied heavily on technical and CGI trickery. One very funny sketch featured a group of sprites escaping from a bottle and making a poor drunken fool's life that much more horrible by texting a malicious message to his girlfriend and framing him for watching hotel porn.
One young woman was dating a dinosaur, as in Tyrannosaurus Rex, who visits her parents' home and destroys everything within, including eating the family dog. A robot stomps over London asking where it left its house keys, destroying swaths of the metropolis. The show is hit and miss - Superhero Tryouts, an X Factor for wannabe superheroes, was laboured and directionless - but the writers Ben Wheatley and Jack Cheshire (who also direct and produce) have at least originated a novel and bizarre show.
Their strangest creation, and the most brilliantly maddening, is a scientist's unfortunately successful attempt to create a new life form. Somehow a malformed DNA structure means that this creature is the most irritating thing on the planet. The scientists hate it. We hate it. This creature destroys everything it touches, but only after wheedling, pleading and manipulating. Are we there yet?
it repeats. Eventually, the guy who took the creature in drove at a post to end it all.