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
Good Stuff! Alice's dark comedy delights await below.
Fresh Meat (2012)
5.4/10
Director: Danny Mulheron
Starring: Temuera Morrison, Kate Elliott, Nicola Kawana, Hanna Tevita
In this Kiwi mash-up of comedy, horror and action, a prison breakout goes violently wrong for a dysfunctional gang of criminals and they need a hideou... Read more
Killing Them Softly (2012)
6.2/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Sam Sh...
A professional enforcer investigates the brazen robbery of a high-stakes mob poker game in this darkly comic crime thriller directed by Andrew Dominik... Read more
Killing Them Softly ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
6.2/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Sam Sh...
A professional enforcer investigates the brazen robbery of a high-stakes mob poker game in this darkly comic crime thriller directed by Andrew Dominik... Read more
Two Little Boys (2012)
Director: Robert Sarkies
Starring: Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu, Filip Berg
"Two Little Boys" is a cheeky comedy which follows Nige (Bret McKenzie) and his best mate Deano's (Hamish Blake) riotous misadventures as they struggl... Read more
Two Little Boys (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Sarkies
Starring: Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu, Filip Berg
"Two Little Boys" is a cheeky comedy which follows Nige (Bret McKenzie) and his best mate Deano's (Hamish Blake) riotous misadventures as they struggl... Read more
The King is Dead! (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Anthony Hayes, Dan Wyllie, Gary Waddell, Bojana Novakovic, Luke Ford, Lani John...
Max and Therese have just brought a new house in a leafy suburb. Their suburban dreams are quickly shattered when they find they have the neighbours f... Read more
A Fantastic Fear Of Everything (2011)
5.9/10
Director: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell
Starring: Simon Pegg, Clare Higgins, Paul Freeman
A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive t... Read more
Danger 5 (2011)
8.4/10
Director: David Ashby, Dario Russo
Starring: David Ashby, Sean James Murphy, Natasa Ristic
Set in a bizarre 1960's inspired version of World War II, this action comedy series follows a team of five spies on a mission to kill Hitler. The acti... Read more
Violet and Daisy (2011)
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
Starring: James Gandolfini, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Danny Trejo, Alexis Bledel, Tatiana Ma...
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. Read more
God Bless America (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr
A blackly comic critique of modern America and its obsession with reality television, celebrity and consumerism, "God Bless America" was written and d... Read more