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The Idiots
Why this pick
Its deliberately abrasive, grotesque comedy turns social discomfort into a full-contact experience, echoing The Dark Backward’s appetite for ugly absurdity and boundary-pushing performances.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1991 1h 41m USA
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Trash Humpers
Why this pick
A lo-fi nightmare-comedy of damaged outsiders and willfully repellent behavior, matched to the same confrontational sleaze, bad-taste humor, and anti-polished sensibility.
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The Greasy Strangler
Why this pick
This is similarly committed to grotesque bodies, cringe-inducing comic repetition, and an aggressively peculiar world that treats revulsion as part of the joke.
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Meet the Feebles
Why this pick
Its filthy backstage puppet spectacle shares the film’s collision of show-business desperation, cartoonish degradation, and startlingly dark comic excess.
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Visitor Q
Why this pick
Miike’s deadpan assault on dysfunctional domestic life carries a comparable anything-goes grotesquerie, using taboo and emotional ugliness for pitch-black comedy.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Wayne Newton
Jackie Chrome
Lara Flynn Boyle
Rosarita
James Caan
Dr. Scurvy
Judd Nelson
Marty Malt
Bill Paxton
Gus
Rob Lowe
Dirk Delta
Claudia Christian
Nikki