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
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The Happytime Murders (Blu-Ray) (2018)
5.1/10
Director: Brian Henson
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Michael McDonald, Joel McHale,...
Detective Phil Philips is a down-on-his-luck puppet who used to work for the Los Angeles Police Department. When two puppets from an old TV show wind... Read more
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Vanessa Shaw, Dan Byrd, Emilie de...
Stranded in the New Mexico desert, a family find themselves under attack by savage 'hill people', mutilated after exposure to radiation from nuclear t... Read more
The Hills Have Eyes ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Joy, Ted Levine, Aaron Stanford, Emilie de Ravin, Dan B...
Stranded in the New Mexico desert, a family find themselves under attack by savage 'hill people', mutilated after exposure to radiation from nuclear t... Read more
The Honey Pot (1967)
7/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Capucine, Cliff Robertson, Maggie Smith, Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward
Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he's dying in order to find out what his three old flames will do. He su... Read more
The Honeymooners (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Karl Golden
Starring: Alex Reid, Jonathan Byrne, Justine Mitchell, Conor Mullen, David Nolan, Eamonn H...
A sweetly boozy Irish romantic comedy about David, a jilted groom who goes on a bender and decides to take depressed birthday girl, Claire, on what wo... Read more
The Hospital (1971)
7.2/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Diana Rigg, George C Scott
A black comedy-drama centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right du... Read more
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...
Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Blu-ray) (2009)
4.4/10
Director: Tom Six
Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yenn...
Advertised as being 100% medically accurate, this outrageous horror film finds two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman held captive... Read more
The Hunting Party (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: James Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Richard Gere, Ljubomir Kerekes, Terrence Howard
Hoping to make it back to the big time, a disgraced TV reporter (Richard Gere) recruits his old cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a naive young producer... Read more
The Ice Harvest (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid, Mike...
Adapted from Scott Philip's novel this noirish crime comedy pairs Billy Bob Thornton as Vic, a low-level mobster, with John Cusack as Charlie, the ben... Read more