Posts Tagged ‘dark-humor’

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Austria | France | Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Michael Pitt | Brady Corbet | Devon Gearhart | Boyd Gaines | Robert LuPone
Directors:
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: David Naughton | Jenny Agutter | Griffin Dunne | John Woodvine | Lila Kaye | Joe Belcher | David Schofield | Brian Glover | Rik Mayall | Sean Baker | Paddy Ryan | Anne-Marie Davies | Frank Oz | Don McKillop | Paul Kember
Directors: John Landis
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clive Owen | Paul Giamatti | Monica Bellucci | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Daniel Pilon | Sidney Mende-Gibson | Lucas Mende-Gibson | Kaylyn Yellowlees | Ramona Pringle | Julian Richings | Tony Munch | Scott McCord | Wiley M. Pickett | Stephen R. Hart
Directors: Michael Davis
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

The Evil Dead (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Ellen Sandweiss | Richard DeManincor | Betsy Baker | Theresa Tilly | Philip A. Gillis | Dorothy Tapert | Cheryl Guttridge | Barbara Carey | David Horton | Wendall Thomas | Don Long | Stu Smith
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Maggie Gyllenhaal | James Spader | Lesley Ann Warren | Patrick Bauchau
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Jarhead (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal | Scott MacDonald | Lo Ming | Kevin Foster | Peter Sarsgaard | Damion Poitier | Riad Galayini | Craig Coyne | Katherine Randolph | Rini Bell | Dendrie Taylor | James Morrison | Arman Zajic | Brianne Davis | Jamie Foxx
Directors: Sam Mendes
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

Joy Ride (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Zahn | Paul Walker | Leelee Sobieski | Jessica Bowman | Stuart Stone | Basil Wallace | Brian Leckner | Mary Wickliffe | McKenzie Satterthwaite | Dell Yount | Kenneth White | Luis Cortés | Michael McCleery | Jim Beaver | Rachel Singer
Directors: John Dahl
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The plot concerns Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a young man who decides to go cross-country to pick up his high school sweetheart, Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), from college. On his way there, he bails his brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. Fuller, looking for a good time, decides to ride with Lewis. During their trip to pick up Venna, Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a cruel joke, through their CB radio, on a truck driver, known only as ‘Rusty Nail’ (voiced by Ted Levine). When the joke takes a deadly turn, Lewis, Venna, and Fuller find themselves being relentlessly stalked by the psychotic truck driver who is looking for more than an apology.

Sin City (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Devon Aoki | Alexis Bledel | Powers Boothe | Jude Ciccolella | Jeffrey J. Dashnaw | Rosario Dawson | Jesse De Luna | Benicio Del Toro | Jason Douglas | Michael Clarke Duncan | Tommy Flanagan | Christina Frankenfield | Rick Gomez | Carla Gugino
Directors: Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez | Frank Miller
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“Sin City” is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop’s body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of “That Yellow Bastard” which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.