Tag: Dark Comedy
After winning Best Original Screenplay for Juno (2007) at both the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards, Diablo Cody was given carte blanche on her next full-length picture. What the general audience might not have expected at the time was that Cody was—and still is—a huge fan of horror films, so she took this opportunity
Tales from the Rez is a captivating look into the ghost stories of the Blackfoot Nation, presented in a format that’s instantly familiar to lovers of horror anthologies! Director Trevor Solway worked with Blackfoot Nation Films to bring to life the stories he heard growing up on a Native Canadian reserve. These ghost stories, overheard
And you thought your family was bad. Daniel Powell (Joel David Moore) is a sweet, gentle aspiring chef who has just become engaged to his lovely girlfriend Emily (Chantel Riley). All he wants now is to get his estranged family together in one place to introduce Emily and invite them to the wedding, but there’s
Opening with an awkward family greeting before a Christmas Celebration, The Uncle is familiar to those who have pushed through awkward gatherings. However, the sinister undertone of the film is subtly revealed as the titular uncle presents his gifts with forced smiles, a ghastly dinner, and a family video that lacks enthusiasm to the point
After File 01 went off with a bang, Koji Shiraishi’s Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost (2012) tries something different and turns out unexpectedly good. The first episode of the mockumentary series didn’t disappoint in serving Koji’s found footage brands and Japanese myth goodness, showing how his knack for storytelling and genre
“Yodel me this!” – Heidi Long before home media and even longer before video streaming, the only way to see original movies was to go to the theater. Most theaters concentrated on showing popular content, movies made for their wide box-office appeal from major film studios. Despite the rare “art house” cinemas, the other alternative
Defining the genre of a film can often get tricky, and many films are overlooked for their genre-bending attributes—especially when those films bend into horror. Labeled a post-apocalyptic sci-fi, A Boy and His Dog is a dark comedy that certainly stumbles into horror territory. This isn’t surprising, considering the original novella the film is based
“South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus’s crew joining, they record an audio commentary track for his new elegiac feature documentary “Razzennest.” But the session goes down a different path. The ultimate elevation
Director Quinten Dupieux has been building a catalog of films ever since his release of Steak back in 2007. (However, you could argue he defined his image starting all the way back in 1999 with his debut album Analog Worms Attack under the puppet moniker “Mr. Oizo“.) Now on his 10th feature film (or 9th
Having recently lost her grandmother, Satoko Sato finds herself deeply withdrawn from the pressures of Covid landing her in the position of a NEET. However, at the age of 32, Satoko feels the pressure to move on, but her limited desires have her seemingly only reaching to be a rich person’s wife. After a failed