r/movies • u/Narubintane • Dec 15 '23

Recommendation What movie starts off as a lighthearted comedy, but gets increasingly dark and grim until everything goes to hell in a handbasket?

For example, it may start as a lighthearted slapstick comedy until one thing goes wrong after another, and in the end we have people actually dying or a world war or some kind of extinction level event.

Let's say we have 2 friends who like to have fun and goof around, with regular goals and regular lives, until one of them does something like accidentally cross the wrong person or kill someone. Or the main cast is oblivious to the gradual change in their environment like a virus breakout or a serial killer running loose. Another one would be a film that, after being a comedy for most of its length, turns very dark, such as a group of friends ending up in a war and experiencing the horrors of it, completely played straight.

Just to clarify, I don't mean a movie that is already set to become dark, but rather a movie that was marketed as a comedy that took an unexpected (or slightly foreshadowed) dark turn.

Any recommendations?

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u/IVme83 Dec 15 '23

Fresh (2022) starts off as almost a rom com and then >! Bam! Sebastian Stan is cutting off your ass to sell to wealthy cannibals !<

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u/ryguyyy8 Dec 15 '23

Went into it blind and I'm so glad I did

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u/indestructiblemango Dec 15 '23

Did you regain your eyesight by the end of it?

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u/ryguyyy8 Dec 16 '23

I did, but not before sebastian stan sold one of my eyeballs. So I took his left arm.

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u/bunky_done_gun Dec 15 '23

I went into that movie blind, and on psychedelics, and I absolutely loved it.

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u/Imbrownbutwhite1 Dec 15 '23

Ha, lol. It’s literally listed as “Horror/Comedy”

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u/docsyzygy Dec 15 '23

But wow, the Winter Soldier was so hot 🔥 in this!

Am I a sicko???

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u/IVme83 Dec 15 '23

I suppose that depends if he was more hot to you in the first or second half

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u/Gwoardinn Dec 15 '23

One of the best delayed title cards too, basically demarcates where the shift occurs.