Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
- Streep, Willis and Hawn turn in spot–on performances for this hilarious send–up of Tinseltown's obsession with youth. The zany plot…
- Ed and His Dead Mother (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Wacks
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty
- Steve Buscemi distinguishes this otherwise routine comedy–horror about about a mommie's boy who can't sever the apron strings, even after…
- Frauds (1992)
- Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Hammond
- Phil Collins plays a smooth–talking, sleazy insurance investigator hell bent on making life miserable for a young couple who have made a claim.…
- Guilty As Charged (1992)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Isaac Hayes
- Resourceful and 'well–executed' black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a religious zealot who fries sinners in his home–made electric chair.…
- Mad Dog and Glory (1992)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Robert De Niro, Bill Murray, Uma Thurman
- Wimpy cop Robert De Niro saves the life of smarmy mobster Bill Murray who then obliges him with the dubious services of one Uma Thurman for a week.…
- 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…
- Wild Target (1992)
- Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu
- Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
- Addams Family, The (1991)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd…
- Huston, Julia and Lloyd star in this glossy update of the '60s TV series. Inventive, blackly comic and lavishly gothic production design.
- 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…
- Murder Most Horrid (TV Series) (1991-1999)
- Feat. Dawn French
- Satirical comedy series starring Britain's darling funny gal Dawn French (VICAR OF DIBLEY) as she takes on various
guises caught up in a different…