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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sightseers.jpg]]
2	--> ''Show me your world''
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4	''Sightseers'' is a 2012 British black comedy directed by Creator/BenWheatley, and written by and starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.
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6	Downtrodden thirtysomething Tina gets out from under her mother's thumb for long enough to go on a caravan holiday with her new boyfriend Chris. Tina soon finds out that Chris is a killer, but she doesn't find this off-puttting - she finds it inspiring.
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8	!! Tropes appearing in this film:
9	* AdvertisingByAssociation: It's "From the makers of ''Film/HotFuzz'', ''Film/{{Paul}}'' & ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''". Of course, Wright only [[{{Producers}} produced]] this film, not wrote and directed it.
10	* BerserkButton: Chris has several. Starting with littering.
11	* BookEnds:
12	** "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell plays when Chris and Tina are driving away from Tina's mother's house. "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones plays over the end credits.
13	** Chris commits his murders by [[spoiler: running over his first victim, pushing his second off a cliff, and the hitting the head of the third on a rock. When Tina commits her murders, she pushes her first victim to their death, runs over her second, and pushes her third down a steep, craggy valley]].
14	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Tina looks harmless enough, but she turns out to be even more callous than Chris.
15	* ItsAllAboutMe: After running over and killing a man in a museum car park, Chris complains that "it's ruined the museum for me."
16	* KarmaHoudini: Chris and Tina are very happy at the end of the film, and they aren't in much danger of being caught by the police. Although, [[spoiler:Chris is dead.]]
17	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Most of the murders are taken for accidents, at least at first.
18	* AMistakeIsBorn: Tina accidentally killed her mother Carol's dog in the film's backstory:
19	-->'''Tina:''' It was a mistake!\
20	'''Carol:''' And so were you!
21	* MyBelovedSmother: In one scene we see Tina's mother Carol lying in a heap at the foot of the stairs, pressing her panic button pendant. When Tina doesn't pick up the call, Carol gets up.
22	%%* OutlawCouple
23	* SceneryGorn: The Cumbrian mountains look very bleak when it's raining.
24	* SceneryPorn: The Settle railway viaduct looks lovely in the sunshine.
25	* SexualKarma: {{Averted\|Trope}}. Chris and Tina are not good people, but they still have good (or at least vigorous and enthusiastic) sex.
26	* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Tina and Chris agree to go out on a high by jumping from the railway bridge. But one of them doesn't jump.]]
27	* SuspectIsHatless: After one of the murders, we hear on the car radio that the police are looking for "a ginger-faced man and an angry woman."
28	* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Tina knits. We find out that she has been knitting herself [[spoiler:a bra and crotchless knickers]].

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