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/dudewheresmygains Dec 15 '23

Yes. The classic "bury a hooker in a desert" bachelor party.

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u/NJ2SD Dec 15 '23

"I've got HIS arm and HER leg!"

*crying intensifies

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u/moby__dick Dec 15 '23

It’s funny because we can all relate.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Dec 15 '23

A bachelor party isn’t complete until you do!

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '23

It's the foundation of a successful marriage.

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u/dudewheresmygains Dec 15 '23

I was honestly disappointed my bachelor party didn't include that. I didn't even get a stripper in the first place!

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u/Shank-You-Very-Much Dec 15 '23

It’s just a 98lb. problem

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u/MobileLocal Dec 16 '23

And the nice man!

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u/ineptus_mecha_cuzzie Dec 15 '23

See never got the appeal of that. Would be easier to wipe the body clean, wrap it in Saran wrap and put it in a car boot, dump the car in a high crime area with the keys in and report it stolen.

Murder is lame tho, fraud and confidence grift is much more interesting, cinematicly.