Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Black Comedy: 66 Films to Buy & Rent
- Hell Ride (2008)
- Dir. Larry Bishop
Feat. Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour…
- Grindhouse–inspired biker flick stars Bishop as the head of a biker gang on a mission to avenge a fallen comrade killed by a rival…
- Death Proof (2007)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan…
- Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2004)
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis
- Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
- Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015)
- Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
- Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
- Before his successful foray into feature films, director Spike Jonze made his name as the pre–eminent music video director of the 1990s. He…
- 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…
- Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
- Psycho Beach Party (2000)
- Dir. Robert Lee King
Feat. Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies
- Kicking sand in the face of John Waters’ latest efforts, this parody of GIDGET and other 60s beach party movies gets fabulous mileage out of…
- Attack the Gas Station (1999)
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
- Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999)
- Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…