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Already in her 30's, Tina (Alice Lowe) still lives with her mom (Eileen
Davies), mainly because mom can't let go of her, even if (or actually
because) Tina was somehow responsible for the death of her beloved dog. Eventually,
Tina falls in love with Chris (Steve Oram), and he persuades her to go on
a camping trip with him to show her his world in no time ... On the
trip, they look like the most normal and boring couple there is ... until
Chris proves to be a tiny bit peculiar and gets really agitated when a man
drops some litter in a historic streetcar. Soon afterwards, he manages to
run the man over and kill him. The police rules this an unavoidable
accident, and Tina is more than willing to believe this. Later, Chris
and Tina become friendly with another couple, Ian (Jonathan Aris) and
Janice (Monica Dolan), who they immediately dislike because Ian is a
published writer (while Chris is still waiting for inspiration for his
first book) and Janice has a dog just like the one Tina's mother had - so
eventually, Tina steals the dog ... oh, and Chris kills Ian and pushes him
down some cliffs. Tina finds out Chris has killed Ian eventually, which
makes her mighty mad - not because he's quite obviously a (serial-)killer,
but because this could ruin their trip. However, they reconcile, and
eventually, Chris actually kills a man before her very eyes - and she
doesn't find it in the least bit worrying. In fact, she buys into his
explanation that murder is the green thing to do because it reduces a
person's carbon footprint. When Tina takes on killing herself though,
that leads to friction, mainly because according to Chris, she does it for
all the wrong reasons, and further frictions arise when Chris gets a bit
too friendly with Martin (Richard Glover), a bicycle camper who manages to
interest Chris in his crazy ideas of bicycle caravans. Eventually, Tina
finds out that the trip is to end at an ancient bridge where Chris plans
for the both of them to commit suicide - which doesn't worry her as much
as it should ... What sounds like an over-the-top gore-soaked
genre comedy isn't actually so much to - much to the movie's advantage:
Sure, when the murders occur, they are actually pretty graphic, but apart
from that, the movie actually moves along at a pretty relaxed pace, and
the directorial effort is decidedly unexcited, concentrating less on the
action than the characters - and these are indeed well-written and
well-played. And as for the film's plot: It's written with the tongue
firmly in cheek of course, but miles away from being moronic, and it
manages to keep the surprises coming out of nowhere - to hilarious effect. Extremely
entertaining, actually.
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