- People who have watched Ben Wheatleys films will go and watch this film.
- This film will more than likely be more successful in Birmingham, as the two main characters are 'brummies'
- However, this wont be successful in America, because they don't understand the humour or types of films of 'Black Comedy', also, they wouldn't understand the accents very well.
- This film would more than likely be promoted in the Midlands Area through posters and trailers, like these:
The Poster:
- The poster is in bright colours, creating a sense of happiness and gives off the comedy element.
- Shows the two main characters in the image.
- Main image sets the scene, out in the countryside, bright blue sky, quite peaceful
- Four different reviews on the front with their ratings, however quite misleading as it only mentions the hilarity of the film and the comedy side, but nothing about the horror.
- Title in biggest font, bold & bright yellow.
- Discusses the producers and directors, attract fans of these people.
- Small image of a caravan next to the title, has blood up it, gives off the horror element.
- The caption 'killers have never been this close-knit' once again gives off the horror element from the usage of the word 'killers'.
- The characters both have very different facial expressions, the man has a very serious face and quite scary looking, which gives off the horror side of the film, and the woman has quite a surprised worry face, which is quite humorous and comical, which gives off the comedy element of it.
- At the bottom is a website for the film.
The Trailer:
- Two Characters introduced straight away.
- Non diegetic sound of one of the characters narrating whilst writing the poster.
- Comedy element from the usage of 'The bed's quite short, but Chris is a sensitive lover'.
- More comedy included from the usage of the woman writing the postcard with a huge pencil.
- Sudden usage of violence, when Chris hits an innocent man over the head with a branch.
- The director 'Ben Wheatley' is then introduced.
- The use of non-diegetic sound gives the horror element when Tina says 'I've never really thought about killing innocent people before' but then Chris adds to the comedy again by saying 'He's not a person Tina, he's a daily mail reader'.
- Rating and review included in the video.#
- Romantic element toward the end, change to romantic music, kissing, saying how Chris loves Tina.
- Ends on a very funny clip, him running someone over and then shouting 'Haha! F**k you!'
Genre - Black Comedy
Director - Ben Wheatley
Stars - Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Steve Oram
Release Date - 30 November 2012
Budget - £9,300,000
Grossed -
Production Co. -StudioCanal
Review:- "I really wanted to like this, yet I left the cinema feeling underwhelmed. The basic set-up is pretty straightforward, which I think may be part of the problem. Whilst the main pair of characters are played well, the plot doesn't really develop them, or the set-pieces, in any meaningful manner. So it feels like there's a lack of depth in what unrolls in front of you.
Yes, there are some funny scenes and some humorous lines indeed, and the shots of the English countryside in particular are beautiful and haunting. However, it comes across as a sketch show bundled up into a longer piece and you can see the various outcomes of scenes being flagged up clumsily throughout.
Basically to me, this feels like the result of a conversation between the writers that was along the lines of "Wouldn't it be really funny to do a film about a couple of sociopaths who go on a caravan holiday together?" and hasn't really had much more put into the mix. Throw in some obvious continuity errors (people speaking with their mouths shut, car doors opening and closing themselves, etc) which distracted me greatly, this isn't really the great British comedy that it's been made out to be. As someone said to me, it's a film that feels a bit too pleased with itself....sorry.
Yes, there are some funny scenes and some humorous lines indeed, and the shots of the English countryside in particular are beautiful and haunting. However, it comes across as a sketch show bundled up into a longer piece and you can see the various outcomes of scenes being flagged up clumsily throughout.
Basically to me, this feels like the result of a conversation between the writers that was along the lines of "Wouldn't it be really funny to do a film about a couple of sociopaths who go on a caravan holiday together?" and hasn't really had much more put into the mix. Throw in some obvious continuity errors (people speaking with their mouths shut, car doors opening and closing themselves, etc) which distracted me greatly, this isn't really the great British comedy that it's been made out to be. As someone said to me, it's a film that feels a bit too pleased with itself....sorry.
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