Dark Comedy Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

A Loner Resurrects His Dead Cat With the Help of a Mysterious Taxidermist in Irreverent Dark Comedy ‘Dead Animals’

David Oesch and Remo Rickenbacher discuss unconditional pet love, unorthodox taxidermy and the absurd consequences of grief in dark comedy 'Dead Animals'.

Read more

Live Action

Dominic Hicks Lifts the Veil of Online Persona to Reveal the Dark Side of Human Behaviour in ‘Amazonia’

Dominic Hicks delivers a deliciously dark triptych of twisted tales about alienation and obsession based on real amazon.com reviews in 'Amazonia'.

Read more

Asides, Live Action

The Priest

A pair of siblings receive some disturbing food for thought which puts their brother’s suicide into perspective in Jim Owen’s comedy 'The Priest'.

Read more

Live Action

A Wealthy Family Find Themselves at the Mercy of Their Dead Patriarch in Matt Kazman’s ‘Father Figurine’

Matt Kazman shares how his morbidly funny swipe at the 1% 'Father Figurine' was inspired the first family & helped along by a mould of an old man’s head.

Read more

Live Action, Premiere

Five Participants Undergo a Not so Simple Test of Conformity in Theo Gee & Ian Bousher’s Dark Comedy ‘Aping’

A man undergoing a conformity test decides to give the researchers exactly what they want in Theo Gee and Ian Bousher's pitch dark comedy 'Aping'.

Read more

Live Action, Premiere

Jealousy Rears Its Ugly Head in Christopher Lovick’s Disturbing Portrayal of Toxic Masculinity ‘Brandon’

Director Christopher Lovick plunges us into the ugly depths of toxic masculinity wrought by illogical jealousy in disturbing relationship short 'Brandon'.

Read more

Animation, Asides

Roundabout

In darkly comic animation 'Roundabout' Noah Gavrich reminds us that life really is just driving in circles until your particular record comes to a stop.

Read more

Live Action, Premiere

A Dead Body Forces Co-Workers to Contemplate Life & Death in Shalini Adnani’s Darkly Comic ‘Something More Banal’

DN speaks to writer/director Shalini Adnani about turning the bizarre ways we react to death into existential black comedy short 'Something More Banal'.

Read more

Asides, Live Action

Bear – Nash Edgerton

Nash Edgerton’s Spider has long held its position on DN’s ‘best shorts of all time list’ – it’s a pretty easy guess as to

Read more

Live Action, Podcasts

DN246: Sightseers – Ben Wheatley

Every time director Ben Wheatley puts out a film it invariably makes its way onto my top ten list for that year (2009, 2011), so it’s pretty clear

Read more

Live Action, Podcasts

DN122: Spider – Nash Edgerton

Given the amount of time I spend watching films on my laptop or iPhone it’s easy to forget the role of cinema as a shared experience.

Read more