Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Black Comedy: 71 Films to Rent on DVD
- Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase
- Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
- Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…
- A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
- Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
- Idle Hands (1999)
- Dir. Rodman Flender
Feat. Seth Green, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson
- An evil spirit moves from person to person, afflicting only a single hand, which proceeds to wreak five–fingered carnage. High–school…
- Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi
- A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
- Scream (1996)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…
- The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
- Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett
- Eddie Murphy and the ever–dynamic Angela Bassett team up for horror specialist Wes Craven, who injects a mix of comedy and gothic romance into…
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
- Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd
- Not bad sequel focuses less on Gomez & Morticia, and gets more comic mileage from the rest of the gang.