World War II) with mordant humor, as seen in To Be or Not to Be and Arsenic and Old Lace. The emergence of the black comedy movie seemed to come around in the 1940s, when filmmaking had evolved enough to artistically interpret real-world horrors (e.g. They twist you around enough to make you feel amusingly guilty hoping they’ll get away with it all. Or how about movies that get you on the serial killer’s side, like being on the ride for The Voices or Monsieur Verdoux.
Strangelove, In the Loop, and The Producers. Think Best Picture-winning Parasite, Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry.Īnother style of the black comedy movie: Mining jokes out of political fallout when millions of lives are at stake, as seen in Dr. Most common are movies about murder and the subsequent covering-up, especially when the corpses have a habit of popping up at the most inconvenient times. If so, twisted friend, you sure have arrived at the right spot to get your gallows guffaws: The 60 Best Dark Comedies, Ranked by Tomatometer!Īll this dark material ranges in variation of glib macabre glee, different styles that we’ll touch upon in our selection of the best-reviewed funny black comedies. Let’s say you’re the type to laugh while handling the darkest subject matters: Murder, doomsday, blackmail, and maybe even a lil’ tasty cannibalism. Thumbnail image: New World/courtesy Everett Collection Neon / courtesy Everett Collection.) The 60 Best Black Comedies, Ranked By Tomatometer (Photo by Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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