Tag: dark comedy

  • Bride of Re-Animator

    Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan’s dearly deceased Meg Halsey.

  • Frankenhooker

    A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.

  • Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

    A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

  • Problem Child

    Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he’s a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.

  • Wild at Heart

    Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

  • Gas and Candles

    Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.

  • Delicatessen

    In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher’s daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

  • Problem Child 2

    Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben’s desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.

  • Hanappe Bazooka

    When trickster demons give him the power to seduce any woman he wants, a high school pervert accidentally puts his family, the girl of his dreams, and his very soul on the line.

  • Man Bites Dog

    The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.