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Subgenre Sampler

 
FraudsFrauds (1992)
Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Hammond
Phil Collins plays a smooth–talking, sleazy insurance investigator hell bent on making life miserable for a young couple who have made a claim.…
Wild TargetWild Target (1992)
Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu
Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
Over Her Dead BodyOver Her Dead Body (Enid is Sleeping) (1991)
Dir. Maurice Phillips
Feat. Judge Reinhold, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeffrey Jones
Garish fun with Judge Reinhold and Elisabeth Perkins as a couple of illicit Southern love–birds who kill his wife, but have trouble disposing…
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Beau Bridges, Beverly D'Angelo, Tess Harper
Various estranged family members re–unite when their patriarch decides to call it a life. A hillbilly comedy with lots of quality squabbling.
Meet the ApplegatesMeet the Applegates (1990)
Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Ed Jr. Begley, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman
A wacky satire about a family of insects who assimilate into suburban America in order to blow up a nuclear power plant. As bent as it sounds, from…
Dead FunnyDead Funny (Penn and Teller Get Killed) (1989)
Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. David Patrick Kelly, Jon Cryer, Reg E. Cathey
Black comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller deploy an array of morbid stage show theatrics within the framework of a fictional feature.
Just Me and MarioJust Me and Mario (1989) Recommended
Dir. Greg Stitt
Feat. Mark Hadlow
Mark Hadlow portrays a repressed individual obsessed with the music and life of Mario Lanza. It's a surreal, blackly comic take on suburban angst.
Fright Night Part 2 Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind
William Ragsdale returns as Charley Brewster, now a college freshman who is tormented by the undead sister of the vampire from the first film. While…
No SurrenderNo Surrender (1985)
Dir. Peter Smith
Feat. Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Joanne Whalley
Black comedy has the unfortunate Angelis getting himself into some hot water when he takes over the managment of a seedy Liverpool club. From the pen…
Funeral, TheFuneral, The (1984)
Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…

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