Black Humour
"Black comedy...also known as 'black humour' or 'dark comedy', is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc - are treated in a humorous or satirical manner." - Wikipedia
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The Hills Have Eyes ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Joy, Ted Levine, Aaron Stanford, Emilie de Ravin, Dan B...
Stranded in the New Mexico desert, a family find themselves under attack by savage 'hill people', mutilated after exposure to radiation from nuclear t... Read more
The Honey Pot (1967)
7/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Capucine, Cliff Robertson, Maggie Smith, Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward
Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he's dying in order to find out what his three old flames will do. He su... Read more
The Honeymooners (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Karl Golden
Starring: Alex Reid, Jonathan Byrne, Justine Mitchell, Conor Mullen, David Nolan, Eamonn H...
A sweetly boozy Irish romantic comedy about David, a jilted groom who goes on a bender and decides to take depressed birthday girl, Claire, on what wo... Read more
The Hospital (1971)
7.2/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Diana Rigg, George C Scott
A black comedy-drama centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right du... Read more
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...
Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Blu-ray) (2009)
4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...
Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more
The Hunting Party (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: James Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Richard Gere, Ljubomir Kerekes, Terrence Howard
Hoping to make it back to the big time, a disgraced TV reporter (Richard Gere) recruits his old cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a naive young producer... Read more
The Ice Harvest (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid, Mike...
Adapted from Scott Philip's novel this noirish crime comedy pairs Billy Bob Thornton as Vic, a low-level mobster, with John Cusack as Charlie, the ben... Read more
The Idiots (1998)
6.8/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Bodil Jorgensen, Jens Albinus, Louise Hassing
Concerns a group of people who live in a villa in a small Danish town who share one interest: idiocy. Civilised and intelligent they pretend otherwise... Read more
The Insider's Guide To Happiness (2004)
Director: Various
Starring: Fasitua Amosa, Will Hall, Sally Stockwell, Ben Barrington, Samantha Jukes, Paolo...
Arguably the most original drama series to have come out of New Zealand, this quirky, black-humoured show follows the paths of six different people as... Read more