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Subgenre Sampler
After Hours (1985)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom… - Scorsese picked up Best Director award at Cannes for this brilliant, Kafka–esque black comedy about an ordinary guy's traumatic and bizarre…
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…
Fright Night (1985)- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall… - Terrific vampire satire in which a boy becomes highly suspicious of his new neighbours, led by a suave Chris Sarandon. The superb make–up…
No Surrender (1985)- Dir. Peter Smith
Feat. Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Joanne Whalley… - Black comedy has the unfortunate Angelis getting himself into some hot water when he takes over the managment of a seedy Liverpool club. From the pen…
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…
Return of the Living Dead, The (1985)- Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Feat. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa - Pretty–good parody of Romero's Living Dead films, though not quite the same as the real thing. Great thrash–metal soundtrack, though.
Toxic Avenger, The (1985)
- Dir. Michael Herz, Sam Weil
Feat. Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard - A nerd becomes super–powered after falling into a vat of radioactive waste, and proceeds to clean up crime in one of the most notorious yet…
Funeral, The (1984)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto - A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…
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.
Ultimate Solution of...Grace Quigley, The (1984)- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte - Curious black comedy features Hepburn as a lonely widower who enlists hitman Nolte to hasten her demise.
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