Posts Tagged ‘dark-humor’

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Baesel, Nathan | Goethals, Angela | Englund, Robert | Wilson, Scott | Rubinstein, Zelda | Newton, Bridgett | Johnson, Kate Lang | Pace, Ben | Spellings, Britain | Turner, Hart | Carlson, Krissy | Zariwny, Travis | Gomez, Teo | Bolt, Matt | Brown, Jenafer
Directors: Glosserman, Scott
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The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: MacGowran, Jack | Bass, Alfie | Robins, Jessie | Tate, Sharon | Mayne, Ferdy | Quarrier, Iain | Downes, Terry | Lewis, Fiona | Lacey, Ronald | Bromley, Sydney | Malandrinos, Andreas | Diamant, Otto | Walters, Matthew
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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The old bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper’s young daughter Sarah. However, she has been spotted by the mysterious count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle outside the village…

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Austria | France | Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Roth, Tim | Roth, Tim | Pitt, Michael | Corbet, Brady | Gearhart, Devon | Gaines, Boyd | Fallon, Siobhan | LuPone, Robert | Hanke, Susanne C. | Moran, Linda
Directors: Haneke, Michael
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.

Drowning Mona (2000)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: DeVito, Danny | Midler, Bette | Campbell, Neve | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Affleck, Casey | Fichtner, William | Thomas, Marcus | Dobson, Peter | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Walter, Tracey | Ferrell, Will | Ben-Victor, Paul | Schulze, Paul | Pellegrino, Mark | O'Connor, Raymond
Directors: Gomez, Nick
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When Mona’s key won’t fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son’s; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona’s dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who’s having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff’s landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he’d like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash’s son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail?

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: David Naughton | Agutter, Jenny | Dunne, Griffin | Woodvine, John | Kaye, Lila | Belcher, Joe | Schofield, David | Glover, Brian | Mayall, Rik | Baker, Sean | Ryan, Paddy | Davies, Anne-Marie | Oz, Frank | McKillop, Don | Kember, Paul
Directors: Landis, John
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Giamatti, Paul | Bellucci, Monica | McHattie, Stephen | Bryk, Greg | Pilon, Daniel | Mende-Gibson, Sidney | Mende-Gibson, Lucas | Yellowlees, Kaylyn | Pringle, Ramona | Richings, Julian | Munch, Tony | McCord, Scott | Pickett, Wiley M. | Hart, Stephen R.
Directors: Davis, Michael
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

Evil Dead, The (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Sandweiss, Ellen | DeManincor, Richard | Baker, Betsy | Tilly, Theresa | Gillis, Philip A. | Tapert, Dorothy | Guttridge, Cheryl | Carey, Barbara | Horton, David | Thomas, Wendall | Long, Don | Smith, Stu
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Davies, Jeremy | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Spader, James | Warren, Lesley Ann | Bauchau, Patrick
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Jarhead (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gyllenhaal, Jake | MacDonald, Scott | Ming, Lo | Foster, Kevin | Sarsgaard, Peter | Poitier, Damion | Galayini, Riad | Coyne, Craig | Randolph, Katherine | Bell, Rini | Taylor, Dendrie | Morrison, James | Zajic, Arman | Davis, Brianne | Foxx, Jamie
Directors: Mendes, Sam
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.