‘Timestalker’ Review: Alice Lowe’s Python-esque Anti-Romcom Is A Dark And Bloody Delight – SXSW
deadline.comLove never dies, but a lot of people do in Alice Lowe’s gloriously bloody valentine to the romantic comedy. Spanning so much time that it practically goes back to the beginning of it, Timestalker is an ambitious project that not only works, it coheres in a way that cements Lowe as a genuine and quite visionary comedic talent.
It recalls classic Monty Python — it’s often very, very stupid and the same time very, very clever — but most of all it’s an idea of what might have been if that all-male team had ever had a woman or two in its core lineup.
Lowe set out her stall in 2016 with Prevenge, a horror comedy in which a bereaved pregnant woman is driven to avenge her late husband, incited to murder by her unborn baby.
Timestalker doesn’t fall far from that tree, being another satirical comment on how male society views women as creatures ruled by hormones and emotion.
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