Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Black Comedy: 66 Films to Buy & Rent
- Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990)
- Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto
- A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
- Parents (1989)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis
- Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
- Smoke 'em If You Got Em (1988)
- Dir. Ray Boseley
Feat. George Huxley, Nique Needles
- The apocalypse inspires a group of loutish adolescents to throw a party, in spite of their guests dying from radiation sickness! Bizarre comedy…
- 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…
- Crazy Love (Love Is a Dog from Hell) (1987)
- Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Josse De Pauw, Geert Hunaerts, Michael Pas…
- Superlative tragicomedy based on the work of Charles Bukowski is told in three parts – pre–pubescence, acne plagued teenagehood and…
- Screamplay (1986)
- Dir. Rufus Butler Seder
Feat. George Kuchar, Katy Bolger
- Tacky amusement can be found in this midnight flick about a splatter movie writer whose nightmare visions become frighteningly real!
- Brazil (1985)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…
- Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
- Re-Animator (1985)
- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
- Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
- Mixed Blood (1984)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia
- Appropriately loose and ironic black comedy about gang and drug shenanigans in NYC from Warhol's factory alumni, Morrissey.
- Deathstalker: Last Great Warrior King (1983)
- Dir. James Sbardellati
Feat. Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker
- Trashtastic sword–and–sandals fantasy sees a chiselled Rick Hill play a warrior who must save the earth (and the girl) from a wicked…