Ben Wheatley: Doing Sightseers made sense for me.

It fitted with my other two movies (Down Terrace / Kill List), so in that sense it was good.

And then I wanted to make a film that was cheerier after Kill List.

Horror’s such a strong genre you could end up just making horror film after horror film and I thought - not that I won’t make another horror film - but I didn’t want my journey in cinema to end like that.

Alice Lowe: Kill List came out and blew us away and I think a lot of other people, but it really got the mythical element that we really wanted in Sightseers as well; there’s a Pagan element to it, and stone circles and all of that kind of thing.

It just meshed really well and we were lucky that he didn’t go off to Hollywood or whatever as the offers I’m sure were on the table at that stage.

He’d kind of committed to it and we’d got excited about how he’d shoot it and stuff.