10 Most Criminally Underrated British Horror Movies

8. Sightseers

Eden Lake
StudioCanal

Whilst Kill List repeatedly crops up in conversation when best British horror movies are mentioned, it never quite reaches the heights of The Descent or 28 Days Later, and Ben Wheatley's follow up movie is spoken about even less, forgotten to the world unless you go out hunting for it. For such a brutal, thoughtful, and stylistic film, it's almost shameful that it isn't more well known - but such is the curse of Wheatley's filmography.

Simply put, the film follows a couple on holiday across England that spiral into a killing spree.

Sightseers retains a blackly comic streak in amongst its terrible violence, hiding terrifying concepts in the banality of the everyday. It's not only smart, but volatile, and serves to emphasise the normalcy of this couple and their activities compared with their taste for death.

At the bottom of it though, anyone who genuinely loves caravan holidaying is probably already a psychopath and just hiding it very well: this film only reminds us not to trust them.

 
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