Favourite Dark/Black Comedies ?

[billy bentley]

This past weekend, a dear friend (American) asked me if I had any favourite Dark/Black comedies, be they British, American, or whatever. I thought I'd pass the question along to the Britmovie community. Any suggestions folks ?

[DB7]

Kind Hearts and Coronets and Grosse Pointe Blank would be two that instantly come to mind.

[torinfan]

Just a few off the top of my head:

Eating Raoul
The People Under the Stairs
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
anything by Ernie Kovacs

[Brett Sinclair]

Harold & Maude

[Edward G]

Dark Star .

[billy bentley]

Thanks DB7, torinfan, Brett Sinclair and Edward G and please keep them coming if you or anyone else think of anymore,. Cheers !

[Gerald Lovell]

I've always liked A Jolly Bad Fellow (1963).

[Brett Sinclair]

More recently I must confess to having really enjoyed Severance

[Nick Dando]

Brazil, Time Bandits and Jabberwocky

Nick

[sidney bliss]

Heathers

Edward Scissorhands

American Werewolf in London

[Timmy_Lea]

Happiness
Chuck and Buck

[dremble wedge]

The Devils

[Mr Sloane]

Muriel's Wedding,Where's Poppa, Fargo.No Way to Treat a Lady,Trouble With Harry and The Ruling Class

[cassidy]

"The Cat and the Canary" 1939 with Bob Hope.

[Brett Sinclair]

"The Cat and the Canary" 1939 with Bob Hope.

Oh Yes, definitely. One of the earliest films I saw that scared me (as a kid) and made me laugh at the same time. I'm still a sucker for hands coming out of the bedhead and eyes moving behind portraits

[cassidy]

My favourite quote from the film
Paulette Goddard to Bob Hope "Do big empty houses scare you"
Hope to Goddard "No I've been playing vaudeville for years".

Oh Yes, definitely. One of the earliest films I saw that scared me (as a kid) and made me laugh at the same time. I'm still a sucker for hands coming out of the bedhead and eyes moving behind portraits

[Brett Sinclair]

My favourite quote from the film
Paulette Goddard to Bob Hope "Do big empty houses scare you"
Hope to Goddard "No I've been playing vaudeville for years".

Thanks for that cassidy, I just had a good laugh.

[cassidy]

Have another one. Hope started one film in a penthouse with lightning flashing and thunder crashing all round. Hope's comment. "Looks like Bela Lugosi's giving a party"

Thanks for that cassidy, I just had a good laugh.

[Brett Sinclair]

Have another one. Hope started one film in a penthouse with lightning flashing and thunder crashing all round. Hope's comment. "Looks like Bela Lugosi's giving a party"

I really had forgotten how much I love Bob Hope. I am now going to have to get a fix. Cheers

[cinemal]

'Arsenic And Old Lace'