Just because a movie is a dark comedy it doesn't mean that they will make the murdering of people light. A dark comedy can have great horror (The Evil Dead, anyone?), drama (I bawled at the end of Bad Santa), and it can display quite repulsive things (Trainspotting).
I think that Trainspotting is a good example for the argument at hand. I finished the movie, and was more repulsed by drugs then I had ever been before. Unlike many movies that glamorize and gloss over drug use; Trainspotting shows every bit of gritty detail in the life of a user. A negligent drug users baby dies, a heartbroken man turns to drugs for his grief and dies of aids, the main character overdoses and nearly dies, in an attempt to retrieve his "final fix" (in the form of suppositories)the main character dives into the grossest toilet in Scotland...the list goes on and on, and I can say that I found nothing at all amusing about those scenes, but the show worked as a great dark comedy.
This movie is still in early development, so I say at least give it a chance before dismissing it completely. Dark comedies are very different then normal comedies, and they usually know when something needs to be taken seriously.
As for the descendants: it happened so long ago that the fact that their relative was murdered by these people is probably just considered interesting family history. Sad, but most likely true.
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jonbeckett
14 years ago
Have you seen the 1950's British horror 'The Flesh And The Fiends'. That was for most parts a very serious look at the life and times of Burke and Hare, played in that film by Donald Pleasence and George Rose. There is however, a very dark streak of humour in the scenes involving the two 'resurrectionists'.
In fact, humour and horror although strange bedfellows, have a long history of working well together. As long as it doesnt slip into a Carry On farc full of double entrendre's, it should be fine
Wake me up before you Monster A Go Go
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dxben99
13 years ago
***SPOILERS***
Watched the movie yesterday, and they did in fact make the murdering of people light. It actually disgusted me. If they would have succeeded in making the two protagonists somehow sympathetic in any way, it maybe would have been different, but there i was, hoping for them to be caught the whole time.
I was disappointed, that only Simon Pegg was getting killed at the end. Would have liked to see them both plus their annoying wife/girlfriends killed.
as for this being a comedy, I didn't laugh once.
This movie sucks.
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