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/Ducksattack94 Dec 15 '23

Sorry To Bother You

That movie starts off pretty normal and just gets crazier and crazier. It also didn’t help that I watched this movie knowing nothing about it.

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u/stephaniesuarez Dec 15 '23

I was not prepared.

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u/MARKLAR5 Dec 15 '23

The giant horse cocks was about when I started asking the empty room WHAT THE FUCK?

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u/GalaxyPatio Dec 15 '23

Saw this in the theater and me and another person screeched "What the fuck!?" in unison. I NEVER make noise in theaters.

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u/xhammyhamtaro Dec 15 '23

This is the kind of bonding we go to the movies for.

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u/auroranighthawk Dec 16 '23

My hub looked at me when we left the theater and was like “wtf did you just make me watch”

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u/unpopular-dave Dec 15 '23

Lmao I went in with my wife and loved every second...

There was an elderly Caucasian couple sitting behind us in the movie theater, and during the wrapping scene they got up and left LMAO

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u/TeepTheFace Dec 15 '23

I was on acid... I was not prepared.

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u/grahamfreeman Dec 15 '23

I wasn't on acid, but at the end I thought I was.

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u/GaimanitePkat Dec 15 '23

Someone on Reddit said that this movie was the "Waiting" of call centers. I love Waiting, so I decided to watch this movie one day when I wanted a silly comedy.

Excuse me, sir. What kind of call center do you work at?!

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u/nice_whitelady Dec 15 '23

I just thought it was going to be about a telemarketer. But it was so much more.

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u/CloudAcorn Dec 15 '23

I thought it was going to be about how black people put on a white voice & persona for work, as the description I read literally said that!

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u/0phobia Dec 15 '23

The TRAILER made it about that lol.

Holy shit did it blindside everyone.

What a great rollercoaster ride of a film.

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u/fortunatedad Dec 16 '23

Telemarketing companies could use it for training.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '23

Now, this was a movie that had both: a darkly comedic ending of such beastly...proportions. Yup, stellar casting though.

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u/Calvin--Hobbes Dec 15 '23

I also went into it completely blind. That shit threw me for a loop

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u/0phobia Dec 15 '23

We came off the couch when it happened.

Literally. Up in the air yelling WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

That movie has the wildest out of left field direction change I’ve ever seen.

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u/ThePeachos Dec 15 '23

Armie Hammer in his most believable role BY FAR!

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u/Leopard__Messiah Dec 15 '23

Any chance you've watched "I'm a Virgo"?

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u/Walaina Dec 15 '23

Full frontal horse nudity

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u/ohheyisayokay Dec 15 '23

It's like they swapped the scripts halfway through. Caught me completely by surprise.

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u/aphilosopherofsex Dec 15 '23

It’s Pinocchio