Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- To Die For (1996)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
- A deft satire about ambition and the media is fashioned from the sensational true story of a woman who coaxed an impressionable schoolboy into…
- Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis
- Winner of the grand prize at Sundance '96, this is a blackly comic portrait of a dreaded kind of coming–of–age. Teenage persecution and…
- Grave, The (1995)
- Dir. Jonas Pate
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Josh Charles, Gabrielle Anwar…
- Craig Sheffer and Josh Charles break jail to dredge though redneck country in pursuit of buried treasure. Though indebted to the likes of the Coen…
- Grotesque, The (1995)
- Dir. John-Paul Davidson
Feat. Alan Bates, Sting
- Bizarre, upper–crust English comedy has a suave, veritably oily Sting as butler to crank palaeontologist Alan Bates and his ghastly family.…
- Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
- Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka
- An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
- Last Supper, The (1995)
- Dir. Stacy Title
Feat. Ron Eldard, Cameron Diaz, Ron Perlman
- Sure to inspire as much lively debate as amusement, this cheeky black comedy posits five young liberals who become compelled to do the world a favour…
- Mona Must Die (Ein fast perfektes Verhältnis) (1995)
- Dir. Donald Reiker
Feat. Marianne Sagebrecht
- A tyrannical wife becomes a target for murder of her brow–beaten husband and his neighbour lover. Their devious plan involves the mistress…
- Staggered (1995)
- Dir. Martin Clunes
Feat. Martin Clunes, Griff Rhys-Jones, Michael Praed
- As a rather extreme stag party prank, Martin Clunes ('Men Behaving Badly') is left naked on a beach in the wop–wops. His protracted voyage back…
- 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…