Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series) (+ A Very Polish Practice) (1986-1988)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn
- A glorious surreal BBC black–comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university, based on the experiences of revered writer Andrew…
House (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt
- Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia…
- Excellent film version of the off–Broadway musical based on the 1960 horror/comedy of the same name. The story of the man–eating plant is…
Ruthless People (1986)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Danny De Vito
- A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
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!
Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa) (1986)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Matti Pellonpaa, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen
- The first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy follows a lonely garbage collector who finds romance with a check–out clerk (Kaurismäki…
Something Wild (1986)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta
- The then–hip Melanie Griffith takes conservative Jeff Daniels on a crash course in carefree living and kinky sex. But the fun turns to terror…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The (1986)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Dennis Hopper
- A belated, somewhat desperate, return to TCM county by the director of the original, who 'cannibalizes' his authentic horror classic with some…