Sentences with phrase «macabre comedy»

Then there's a taste of macabre comedy, where the sisters find themselves disposing of the body of a man whose death they accidentally caused.

My Dead Boyfriend (R for profanity and sexuality) Macabre comedy about a struggling writer (Heather Graham) who only uncovers the truth about her couch potato beau (Rich Graf) after he passes away while sitting in front of the TV.

A thoughtful, emotive, occasionally macabre comedy - drama about such issues as life, death, knowing when to hold on and knowing when to let go.

Trust has its own flaws, but it also has that blend of true crime, macabre comedy, the foibles of the rich and famous, and social issues that made The People v. O.J. so addictive.

Not exact matches

I love comedy and the macabre!

Serge Bozon's sharply political comedy — a giddily imaginative reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale — stars Isabelle Huppert, who revels in its sly blend of dissonant humor, intellectual fervor, and macabre violence.

Tusk is a unique experience, a macabre experimental lark from Kevin Smith, but it also seems to be the first in a new direction for a man who made his millions on stoner comedies.

Not only does he skilfully deliver a delicious dose of macabre black - comedy drenched in Glasgow city culture, but offers a punchy screenplay (adapted from Douglas Lindsay novel Long Midnight of Barney Thomson) complete with side - splitting dialogue, in a playground built for comedic absurdity, to which the entire cast relish with delight.

A well - crafted musical, an imaginative macabre fantasy, and a subtle, well - observed comedy (though I did wish that a maggot (Enn Reitel) with Peter Lorre's voice whistled «In the Hall of the Mountain King,» just once), Corpse Bride is about love and loyalty — the importance of vows and the eternity of words.

That alone is enough for many to rush out and rent this gorehound import, but there's more: this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2 (complete with zombie hunters armed with chainsaws and other deep woods implements of destruction) but minus the self - conscious wisecracking of the genre.

This picture walks a fine line between macabre drama and dark comedy, given how the vindictive protagonist takes to butchery as the attrition rate.escalates.

There are also more than a few macabre laughs — the piece is cowritten by Nyman and Jeremy Dyson of the comedy troupe League of Gentleman.

That should tell you that you're in for very perverse and macabre hour plus of the most sensational elements in comedy, with homosexuality, S&M, gangbangs, incest, suicide, animal cruelty, and one of the most surreal endings you're likely to see.

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.

Still, I'd suggest Christopher Smith's 2006 horror - comedy Severence, which not only had gory kills of annoying office workers, but also brandished a sharp and macabre wit.

The first few books I wrote had a large comedy element, but when a reviewer brought to my attention that my books also have a dark, macabre undercurrent, I realised, in one of those light bulb moments, that what I really enjoy writing is noir — and it's what I love reading as well.

Warren Adler is best known for The War of the Roses, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce turned into the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated dark comedy hit starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy / tragedy of love, death, and farce.