Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Black Comedy: 287 Films to Buy & Rent
- Just Me and Mario (1989)
- 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.
- Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful For You) (1989)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
- Car salesman Gerard Depardieu has a beautiful wife, but becomes infatuated with his plain yet passionate receptionist. Insightful, melancholy comedy.
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…
- A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
- Brain Damage (1988)
- Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry
- Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
- Child's Play (1988)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…
- 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
- 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…
- Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan
- Yet another unnecessary sequel, this time to the popular spoof of Romero's Living Dead films.
- Bad Taste (1987)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Peter Jackson
- New Zealand's entry into the splatter comedy genre, shot on consecutive Sundays over a four year period, is among the best ever made. Outrageously…
- Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
- Dir. Danny De Vito
Feat. Billy Crystal, Danny De Vito, Kim Greist…
- Snappy comic spinoff of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
- Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer…
- Lively comic fantasy about three bored spinsters whose dreams of Mr. Right unwittingly conjure up a diabolical Jack Nicholson.