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Parasite (2019): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…; An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018): Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch…; Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017): Dir. John McPhail
Feat. Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Marli Siu…; Big–hearted Xmas themed zombie musical set in the sleepy town of Little Haven, where Anna and her friends go up against the undead. A…
T2 Trainspotting (2017): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller…; The characters of Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING are alive, if not entirely well, twenty years later in this sequel that serves up some good laughs and…
Aaaaaaaah! (2015): Dir. Steve Oram
Feat. Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Lucy Honigman…; A twisted cult comedy which confronts the human condition by imagining what life would be like if humans were apes. Written and directed by Steve…
Cheap Thrills (2013): Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…; A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
Filth (2013): Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy…; James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
God Bless America (2011): Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton; Irrepressible writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait returns with another sizzling, charcoal–black comedy that takes aim at the worst proponents of…
Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Sarah Wynter; Feature–length movie spin off of the TV series focusing on the undead missionary 'Reapers' and their reactions to their…
Run Bitch Run! (2009): Dir. Joseph Guzman
Feat. Christina DeRosa, Cheryl Lyone, Peter Tahoe; Cheap and nasty pastiche of old school grindhouse flicks that sees two Catholic schoolgirls seek brutal revenge on their attacker.
Hell Ride (2008): Dir. Larry Bishop
Feat. Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour…; Grindhouse–inspired biker flick stars Bishop as the head of a biker gang on a mission to avenge a fallen comrade killed by a rival…
Death Proof (2007): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan…; Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…
Bubba Ho-Tep (2004): Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis; Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015): Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb; Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003): Dir. Spike Jonze; Before his successful foray into feature films, director Spike Jonze made his name as the pre–eminent music video director of the 1990s. He…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…; A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001): Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…; The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
Psycho Beach Party (2000): Dir. Robert Lee King
Feat. Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies; Kicking sand in the face of John Waters’ latest efforts, this parody of GIDGET and other 60s beach party movies gets fabulous mileage out of…
Attack the Gas Station (1999): Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…; Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea. Gleefully tearing apart…
Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999): Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…
Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999): Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno; A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
Acid House, The (1998): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney; Those with a taste for undiluted Irvine Welsh (author of TRAINSPOTTING) will find warts–and–all satisfaction in this portmanteau of three…
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro; Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…
Happiness (1998): Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Controversial is the byword for this disturbing trawl through the sad–case lives of various American suburbanites and their families (Lara…
Cannibal! The Musical (Alfred Packer: The Musical) (1996): Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool; This fiendishly inventive 'student' film from SOUTH PARK creator Trey Parker is one of those no–budget labour of loves like say, BAD TASTE,…
Bad Boy Bubby (1994): Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Nicholas Hope; Nicholas Hope is terrific as a 35–year–old man who ventures out for the first time into suburban Australia after a lifetime of abusive…
Duckman (TV Series) (1994-1997): Feat. Jason Alexander; An animated black–comedy sitcom adapted from a one–off comic book that is centred around a lascivious, widowed, self–loathing duck…
Bitter Moon (1993): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner…; Erotic weirdness unfolds aboard an ocean liner as wheel–chaired creep Peter Coyote foists an unsavoury personal tale upon innocent Hugh Grant.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Female Trouble (1974): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey; Waters' funniest trash–a–thon with Divine following up her unforgettable turn in Pink Flamingos as loathsome loser Dawn Davenport –…
Rancho Deluxe (1974): Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Harry Dean Stanton; An admired oddball comedy with a young Jeff Bridges as one of a pair of drifters whose disdain for the establishment leads them to trouble with an…
O Lucky Man (1973): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts…; Often surreal account of a young coffee salesman's unconventional rise to power. Malcolm McDowell is in fine form in this unusual yet satisfying…
Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972): Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman; Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
Pink Flamingos (1971): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey…; John Waters' creative pinnacle (or nadir!) remains the ultimate statement in bad taste – a pure, unadulterated exercise in shock value!…
Women in Revolt (1971): Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis; Aspiring 'stars' Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn try their hand at breaking into Hollywood, but end up joining a womens' rights group. Warhol…
Harold and Maude (1970): Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon; Much adored black comedy about a lonely teenager who befriends an old woman who shares his morbid fascination, among other interests. This cult hit…
Where's Poppa? (Going Ape) (1970): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman…; George Segal becomes determined to hurry along the demise of his ultra–demanding, super–senile 87 year–old mom (Ruth Gordon). Few…
Plot Against Harry, The (1969): Dir. Michael Roemer
Feat. Harry Plotnik; Repentent racketeer Harry Plotnik is released from jail, but his plans to go legit in New York's Jewish community become inadvertently thwarted by…
Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate; Typically twisted spoof oddity on vampire movies, with Polanski's then wife Sharon Tate.
Cul-de-Sac (1966): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens…; David Warner as Morgan goes to eccentric extremes to try to win back his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) after she divorces him. Quaintly weird comic tale is…
Strait-Jacket (1964): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford; Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott; A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
Shock Corridor (1963): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers; An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
Little Shop of Horrors (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson; Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…

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