Great Dark Comedies - No not stuff like Barbershop or Madea

[Lensherr]

The Cable Guy

Probably Jim Carrey's most underrated film.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (of Amelie fame) and Marc Caro. It's about a post-apocalyptic society and cannibalism and a fucked up apartment building where it happens.

I've been wanting to see that ever since I saw its bizarre as fuck trailer.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The Cable Guy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vm-kQh4zvaA
Probably Jim Carrey's most underrated film.

Agreed. When it came out, I heard it was really bad, so I skipped it.

Then years later I saw it on one of the movie channels and I found it strangely appealing. It is about two notches away from being a horror movie, but I'll be damned if I wasn't laughing.

Personally, I think it holds up better than Carrey's more famous work like Ace Ventura, The Mask, and especially Dumb and Dumber (which I admittedly never liked all that much).

 

[Idiotron]

Death Becomes Her

Arguably the best movie Bruce Willis has ever been in and nobody remembers it.

American Psycho

Do I even need to say anything?

Whichever movie by Quentin Tarantino you think is good

Because that's all he knows how to write.

 

[TungstenCarbide]

Metti la Nonna in Freezer (Put Granma in the Freezer). It's an Italian dark comedy about Claudia, a young restorer who can't afford an apartment because of her low-payed job, so she lives with her Granma Birgit. One day Birgit dies and since Claudia has been fired, she decides to put Birgit's corpse in a fridge to continue cashing in her pension. Enters Simone, a goofy but incredibly diligent tax agent who is sent to Birgit house for a routine control, so Claudia and her friends try to convince him that her Grandma is still alive.

 

[AnOminous]

The Young Poisoner's Handbook, loosely based on the life of serial poisoner Graham Young.

Eating Raoul, a comedy about eating people.

Surprised nobody's named Repo Man yet.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Yeah I already have a copy of Eating Raoul but good choice

 

[AnOminous]

Again, I'm not talking about African American Comedies.

Also, Get Out is a black comedy and also a black comedy.

 

[Maamtis]

I Googled the term and apparently Hot Fuzz is one so that would be my choice.

This was all the rage when I was in high school. You guys might appreciate it.

 

[Crystal Golem]

Well I love Herzog and that sounds intriguing so I'll check that out

Have you seen Stroszek?

Edit: 'I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok' the anti-romcom

 

[The Cunting Death]

I'll add another to this

Trash Humpers

it looks like a snuff film but it's so fucking over the top and creepy that I couldn't stop laughing

 

[BrunoMattei]

Perhaps I'm insane but I don't see American Psycho as a dark comedy.

 

[AnOminous]

Perhaps I'm insane but I don't see American Psycho as a dark comedy.

I think the book is more clearly comedic but the movie also is, although maybe you have to be a sick bastard to see it that way.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I think the book is more clearly comedic but the movie also is, although maybe you have to be a sick bastard to see it that way.

Then again, I don't see Naked Lunch as much as a comedy. It made me laugh 2-3 times. American Psycho, not once. The only scene in the movie that got a laugh is when Bateman drags a body to a cab and the faggot notices the bag and asks him what brand it is.