we can't forget royal tenenbaums and zoolander from this twisted list!

In never considered Eraserhead a dark or black comedy. It's been more viewed as a fantasy, drama, horror movie while Blue Velvet is more of a Crime, drama, mystery, thriller than a dark or black comedy (see IMDb). While there may be moments of parody, the overall tone of these movies really don't seem to place comedy or humor as a major component of either movie.

I saw a dark comedy yesterday called Picking up the Pieces, it was great! It's about this guy (Woody) who kills his unfaithful wife, chops her up (he's a butcher) and buries her (badly) next to the road. But one hand is left behind (giving the finger) and when an old blind woman trips on the hand and miraculously gets her sight back, everyone believes it is the hand of the virgin Mary! It stars Woody Allen, David Scwimmer, Cheech Marin, Kiefer Sutherland, Sharon Stone. And it's more twisted than Ace Ventura's haircut. Has anyone else seen it?

Skimming and didn't see it mentioned (sorry if I missed seeing it):

"Heathers" I've been meaning to see this again as I'm currently on a Winona Ryder kick. Suicide, murder disguised as suicide, a trio of Heather valley chicks in Ohio, Winona... what more can one ask for?

I guess the first few are on the lighter side of dark, but they get a bit more serious toward the end.

"The Whole Nine Yards" - I love Patricia Arquette's character.
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" - This was pretty much universally panned, but I think it's hilarious!
"Grosse Pointe Blank"
"Little Shop of Horrors" - Bill Murray steals the show.
"Fargo"
"Catch-22"
"King of Comedy"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

I thought It's All Gone Pete Tong was a pretty good recent black comedy.
Memories Of Murder might not be classified as such, but I certainly found it to be so!
Man Bites Dog is a classic.
Dr.Strangelove absolutely tops the list of the genre.

I agree with Tabuno's earlier definition of dark humor. I don't think the humor is necessarily derived from people getting killed such as in Kill Bill. To me Dark Comedy is more the humor of the concentration camp...a humor of desperation...a laugh in the face of death. An element of the absurd is almost essential to any Dark Comedy. After all, it is absurd to laugh while you are in a concentration camp. Dr. Strangelove, Catch 22, and Slaughterhouse Five exemplify this kind of laughing at an absurdly hopeless situation. About Schmidt and Harold and Maude represent this genre on a more personal, less cosmic, scale.

I'm gonna have to say Clue and Strangelove also. But one that really comes to mind is an old black and white film called Arsnic and Old Lace about two little old ladies who kill and torture people and bury them in their basements. Believe me its funny, and whoever said Shaun of the Dead, I totaly agree, great movie. And im not too sure about Life Aquatic being a dark comedy (allthough im obsessed with Wes Andersen films,) The Royal Tenanbaums was a great choice.

I agree with you that Arsenic and Old Lace is a great black comedy, but the little old ladies just put arsenic in lonely old men's drinks. They don't torture anybody. But their disfigured nephew (Raymond Massey) and his crazed plastic surgeon helper {Peter Lorre) don't mind a little torture now and then.

Im sure your right, I havent seen the movie since i was like ten.

"Songs from the second story" a dutch or swedish movie... really black... very funny.

The Shining. now there was a comedy!

Does anyone else think that Fight Club is a dark comedy? Because I certainly think it's funny. Also, other movies that came to mind that have already been posted, but are great, are Harold and Maude, Dr. Strangelove and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I think those are just amazing and I'd consider them all black comedies. And also, could A Letter to Three Wives possibly count as a black comedy?

Drop Dead Fred!

Fargo is the absolute only black comedy I like though I have seen many. But Fargo is absolutely excellent ^^

"eating rauol" this is one of the first dark comedies I ever seen. Very funny, dry, dark comedy. The title is actually what the movie is about. A must see for those that like dark comedies.
Fargo is amazing film. One of the Cohen bro's best films. Incredible characters, incredible performances. William F. Macy should have got the oscar. It is a treasure to see such great acting. But the whole cast was brilliant.

Anything by Todd Solondz -- particularly Welcome to the Dollhouse and Palindromes.

My favorites that have already been mentioned are Harold and Maude, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, Man Bites Dog, and The Cable Guy.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead also deserves a mention.

Dr. Strangelove of course. Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange too.

Team America
American Psycho
Bad Santa
Brazil

Really Bad Things - Dark comedy with Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, and some people i haven't heard of. Had a few laughs, but unless you're a huge Diaz/Slater fan, probably not worth it. The characters were hard to believe, there was a thin plot, and there was a scene that was similar to the clean-up scene in Pulp Fiction (coincidence? probably.)

I agreed with those who mentioned THE CABLE GUY, which for the most part received terrible reviews when it was first released (The "Village Voice" critic Jim Hoberman was the one exception). I later caught up with it on video and was completely blown away on how good it was and was sorry I missed it when it had its original theatrical run. I think the fact that Jim Carrey's $20M payday kind of overshadowed the film. And people wanted to see Carrey in "Ace Ventura" mode and this was a very different and very darker portrayal. A real sleeper.

The Cable Guy (1996) starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderik, included some surprising old and new co-stars including George Segal and Diane Baker as well as Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Owen C. Wilson. Ben Stiller actually directed this movie. What was different about this movie is Jim Carrey performs in both a darker more crazed fashion while also is more restrained antics blurring the line of comedy and humor into something more serious and haunting almost. Perhaps Carrey's character really isn't so much funny as deranged. At the same time Matthew Broderik, doesn't get to provide much if any comedy but plays the straight man, unlike a movie such as The Producers (2005) where he gets to perform a more balanced comic-straight guy. The expectations of the original audience may have been quite confused and bewildered by what they experienced from both these actors and the plot of the script. But this movie foreshadowed Carrey's much more diverse acting abilities that would come to light two years later in The Truman Show (1998) and his brilliant performance in Man on the Moon (1999).