Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 501 Films to Buy & Rent
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,…
Chicken (1996)
- Dir. Grant Lahood
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson…
- Blackly comic farce about an middle–aged ex–pop–star–turned–fast–food–proprietor who is being stalked by a…
Fled (1996)
- Dir. Kevin Hooks
Feat. Stephen Baldwin, Laurence Fishburne
- Violent comedy handcuffs together movie–obsessed computer whizz Stephen Baldwin with no–nonsense criminal Laurence Fishburne. Breaking a…
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis…
- Join in the riot with an edgy thriller that loses its head midway through and gets stuck into some gleefully supernatural carnage.
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Mr. Wrong (1996)
- Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman
- Ellen DeGeneres, of TV's 'Ellen', playing the dating game of the 90s, meets a handsome stranger only to find his 'perfect' veneer is a creepy…
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo
- Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
Scream (1996)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…
- The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
To Die For (1996)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
- A deft satire about ambition and the media is fashioned from the sensational true story of a woman who coaxed an impressionable schoolboy into…
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis
- Winner of the grand prize at Sundance '96, this is a blackly comic portrait of a dreaded kind of coming–of–age. Teenage persecution and…
Grave, The (1995)
- Dir. Jonas Pate
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Josh Charles, Gabrielle Anwar…
- Craig Sheffer and Josh Charles break jail to dredge though redneck country in pursuit of buried treasure. Though indebted to the likes of the Coen…