Darkly Funny Movies: Top 10 Dark Comedies

The dark comedy genre of movies is one that has a smaller fan base, but it's hard to find a more devout group of movie goers. A good dark comedy movie manages the difficult task of blending the dark and twisted with the hilarious, often delivering both at the same time. If you're watching a dark comedy and laughing your head off, but feeling horribly guilty about it at the same time, then the film has successfully managed that balance.

One of the most interesting things about dark comedies is that individual preference plays such a huge part in determining which are "best." Three top ten lists could have thirty different movies on them depending on what worked for each viewer and what didn't. The challenge of the film makers is to make a funny movie twisted, but not so much that the audience "Gets off the train."

The following is a list of ten of the best dark comedies out there, including several movies that have been overlooked by even many dark comedy connoisseurs.

#10 Very Bad Things: This movie definitely had star power with Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, and Jon Favreau. "Very Bad Things" is a very dark comedy that starts with the accidental death of a prostitute at a Las Vegas bachelor party and quickly spirals into even worse territory. The pacing is well done, as the problem starts "small" and grows in believable increments until everything is completely out of control. This film is often one of the first mentioned when the words "dark comedy" are brought up, but this movie is also highly divisive. Half of dark comedy fans love this movie, and half loathe it. Putting it at #10 seems a fair compromise.