On this episode of VICE Talks Film, we meet Ben Wheatley, one of the UK's most exciting living directors in the build up to the release of his adaptation of JG Ballard's seminal dystopian novel "High Rise". Wheatley has built a reputation for uncompromising and experimental independent films since his critically acclaimed genre-bending crime drama Down Terrace.

I don't know anything about this dude but I like the sh*t he's talking. There's a part where he says that he doesn't want to be like the average post modern film maker who just decides on a reference and faithfully recreates it. I'm totally with that right there. If I recall correctly he was being film specific but that sh*t happens in hella mediums. You know, when you're a fan of sci-fi you really kind of have to resign yourself to having no standards when it comes to production value, or acting, or storylines, or dialogue. There's maybe a ten percent chance that you pick up a sci-fi film and it's good and that's being generous for hovsake.