Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Black Comedy: 66 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Acid House, The (1998)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney
- Those with a taste for undiluted Irvine Welsh (author of TRAINSPOTTING) will find warts–and–all satisfaction in this portmanteau of three…
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro
- Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…
- Happiness (1998)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Controversial is the byword for this disturbing trawl through the sad–case lives of various American suburbanites and their families (Lara…
- Cannibal! The Musical (Alfred Packer: The Musical) (1996)
- Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool
- This fiendishly inventive 'student' film from SOUTH PARK creator Trey Parker is one of those no–budget labour of loves like say, BAD TASTE,…
- Bad Boy Bubby (1994)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Nicholas Hope
- Nicholas Hope is terrific as a 35–year–old man who ventures out for the first time into suburban Australia after a lifetime of abusive…
- 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…
- Bitter Moon (1993)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner…
- Erotic weirdness unfolds aboard an ocean liner as wheel–chaired creep Peter Coyote foists an unsavoury personal tale upon innocent Hugh Grant.…
- Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde
- Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
- Dark Backward, The (1991)
- Dir. Adam Rifkin
Feat. Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton…
- Weird black comedy about a hopeless stand–up comic (Judd Nelson) who finds that the third arm growing from his back is his ticket to the…