So often, the radical cheek of TikTokers makes mainstream media look pretty dull, and so it has proved once again, with the explosion of uproarious Saltburn TikToks. These are reportedly causing deep pain to Mr Charles Stopford Sackville, owner of the 700-year-old Drayton House in Northamptonshire, which plays the stately home in question, through which Barry Keoghan finally does his groovy nude dance to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor.
Stopford Sackville got a generous fee for letting them film there and knows the parents of director Emerald Fennell, but is still now miffed at TikTokers killing his groove by straying off the public footpath close to his estate, insolently filming and telling other commoners how to get there and gawp. These TikToks are now part of the three great Saltburn TikTok genres: Tourist Hoi Polloi, Self-Own Upper-Middle-Class Dance Cosplay and Horrified Reaction, in which elderly relatives are filmed recoiling in horror at the bathwater scene. So here are some of the more notable efforts:
