black comedy

FAULTS [Riley Stearns 2014]

April 17, 2015 Respond

File under: impeccable retro eerie black comedy, weird motel theophany, hypnosis binds us all, exit counsellor discovering the fierce truth about himself. This is definitely one of those movies I fear I will keep watching for decades to come again and again. It is a movie that thrives in a twilight region of deprogramming and…
Sightseers

August 19, 2013 Respond

“Sightseers” by Ben Wheatley is about an odd couple, Chris and Tina, who go on a vacation across England until the story takes a very wrong turn.
The Bothersome Man (2006)

February 14, 2013 Respond

In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.
De Noorderlingen (1992)

December 17, 2012 Respond

De Noorderlingen (The Northeners) is a 1992 surreal black comedy by dutch director Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of the excentric inhabitants from a ’60’s unfinished real estate development (a town with only one street). A curious postman nosing in people’s correspondence (played by the director himself), a butcher with a huge libido…