Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Black Comedy: 288 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
- Dir. J. Michael McClary
Feat. James Woods, Kathy Bates
- Black comedy depicting a hellish family of white–trash farmers, incl. an alcoholic James Woods and wife Kathy Bates. Based on a Sam Shepard…
Duckman (TV Series) (1994-1997)
- Feat. Jason Alexander
- An animated black–comedy sitcom adapted from a one–off comic book that is centred around a lascivious, widowed, self–loathing duck…
Ref, The (1994)
- Dir. Ted Demme
Feat. Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey
- Jewel thief Denis Leary takes refuge at the home of married squabblers Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey on the eve of a Christmas family reunion.…
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jeremy Davies, Elizabeth Newett, Benjamin Hendrickson…
- The awkwardness of youth is brilliantly captured in this provocative tragi–comedy, another maverick success story from the US indie scene. A…
Takin' Over the Asylum (TV Series) (1994)
- Dir. David Blair
Feat. David Tennant, Ken Stott
- Well–made television series that follows the fortunes of a hospital radio DJ working in a Glasgow mental asylum where he befriends a manic…
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.
Deadly Advice (1993)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Pryce…
- A wicked little black comedy about murder in small, genteel provincial town on the Welsh borders. The twist is to have the bickering ghosts of…
Serial Mom (1993)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Kathleen Turner
- Prickly domestic satire stars Kathleen Turner as the perfect mom – one who'll go to murderous lengths to protect her family.…