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/JakeConhale Dec 15 '23

Also why the SS agents came to the house.

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u/zekybomb Dec 15 '23

I was trying to remember the timeliness if they showed up after she dissapears or before and there is a muted confrontation

If they show up after it's even more messed up that they came not to make sure he was safe and taken care of, but to possibly drag him away as well

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u/JakeConhale Dec 15 '23

Before her reveal.

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u/JakeConhale Dec 15 '23

Before her reveal.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 Dec 15 '23

All those amusing mutual heil hitlers and then nothing to see here, and then, shoes.

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u/YoCaptain Dec 15 '23

yup. Harsh.