If you’re a huge fan of dark humor, black comedies are probably your favorite genre, and they’re showing up everywhere this summer. Many comedies with a dark twist are heading to theatres and streaming services these days and here are a few that deserve a spot on your watch list.
Vengeance
The Office actor B.J. Novak takes the lead role in his directorial debut which centers on a New York journalist who travels down south to help solve the murder of a girl that he had a brief fling with.
Not Okay
This satire for the influencer age tells the tale of an attention-seeking young woman (Zoey Deutch), whose life turns upside down after she fakes being a victim of a bombing attack in Paris.
Do Revenge
Stranger Thing’s Maya Hawke and Riverdale’s Camila Mendes join forces as two teenage girls going after each other’s bullies in this coming-of-age dark comedy inspired by Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bodies Bodies Bodies puts a dark comedic twist on the slasher genre and stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson. It centers on a group of rich twenty-somethings attending a hurricane party gone terribly wrong.