Subgenre Sampler
      Cult > Black Comedy: 66 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Love Butcher, The (1982) 
- Dir. Mikel Angel, Donald M. Jones
Feat. Eric Stern 
- Amusing sleaze/cheesefest about a retarded, sexually frustrated gardener (Eric Stern) who harbours a slick, womanizing alter–ego, not to…
 
Britannia Hospital (1981) 
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright… 
- Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
 
Stunt Man, The (1980)
 
- Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey 
- A fugitive stumbles upon a movie set, where he is embraced and hired as a stuntman by the fervant director. A bizarre,…
 
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979) 
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet… 
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
 
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
 
- Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher… 
- Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue. 
Originally…
 
Plumber, The (1979)
 
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Judy Morris, Ivor Kants 
- An obscure, one–of–a–kind telemovie from Peter Weir concerning a middle–class couple whose apartment is besieged by an…
 
Desperate Living (1977)
 
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey 
- The third in John Waters' unholy trilogy again succeeds in his aim to simultaneously shock and incite hysterics. No Divine this time, but Liz Renay,…
 
Beast, The (La Bete) (1975) 
- Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst 
- This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
 
Death Race 2000 (1975)
 
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone 
- Hilarious black comedy from the director of EATING RAOUL, about a road race across the States where one can gain points from killing pedestrians…
 
Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974)
 
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Terry Camilleri, John Meillon 
- This no–budget wonder marked the auspicious debut of Peter Weir. It's a delirious black comedy in which an outback community ambush passing…