In May 2009 he directed the feature film '' Down Terrace '' in eight days ; it won the Next Wave prize at Fantastic Fest in Austin and Best UK Feature at Raindance in London . In 2010 Wheatley completed his second feature , '' Kill List '' for Warp X . The film received critical acclaim and won Michael Smiley a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor . The movie holds a 76 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a critic consensus describing the film as " an expertly executed slow-burn crime thriller that thrives on tension before morphing into visceral horror . " Wheatley 's third film was the black comedy '' Sightseers '' , released in the UK in November 2012 . It was written by its stars , Alice Lowe and Steve Oram , with additional material by Amy Jump , and was chosen for the Directors ' Fortnight section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival . Wheatley 's fourth film , '' A Field in England '' was financed through the Film4 talent and ideas hub , Film4 .0 . It was followed in 2016 by '' High Rise '' , an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name . He has also directed advertisements for Blink Productions and Moxie
2012 Cannes Film Festival
2012 Cannes Film Festival
Ben Wheatley