Lowe in full ’80s garb.
Nick Frost (left) also co-stars as George.
ALICE LOWE DOESN’T do things by halves. Her first film as director, the 2016 horror-comedy Prevenge, also starred Lowe as an expectant mother-turned-serial killer and was filmed while she was eight months pregnant. Her second, Timestalker, is more ambitious still: a comedic romance set across centuries, the same characters (played by Lowe and Aneurin Barnard) recurring in different settings. “It’s quite a difficult film to describe,” she concedes with a laugh. “It’s a romcom, it’s about reincarnation, it’s a fantasy —and in a way it’s a bit of a love letter to cinema, because every historical period is kinda based on a different film genre or trope. Which has been super-fun.” Here, she reveals a few of the seven time-periods featured in the film —and their cinematic inspirations.