Love “Freeway”!
But imagine few here love deep dark comedy. Luckily, I can’t be offended.
But imagine few here love deep dark comedy. Luckily, I can’t be offended.
I haven't seen it since early college (so about a year after it came out), only saw it once, can barely remember a scene or two (I do remember the opening credits telling you what story you're getting), but I remember I really enjoyed. Because it was the 90s, and I don't think there was any type of comedy I liked more as a mid-late teenager than a dark comedy. So nothing defined 90s comedies to me like dark comedies (I have at least one more on my ballot).
And when I was looking through 90s movies on letterboxd and saw that and went, "I remember that. That was definitely amongst the dark comedies I watched back then."
I think the only dark comedy of the era that I remember watching and thinking was kinda bad, but still enjoyed, because I was aware I was an easy get, was Very Bad Things.
I remember thinking even The Cable Guy was better than that, despite Jim Carrey's presence (who just didn't mesh with the rest of the film, in my recollection, and was my go to brief-imagination of why Jim Carrey would have been a bad fit for Beetlejuice) - I'm still overall positive on that one based on my 20 year old memory of it. It's funny how many of those I haven't revisited in the years since, but if they showed up on something like Shudder, I'd probably turn them on now and watch them (I'm saying Shudder just because, Heathers, for whatever showed up on there a few years ago and I got some nice nostalgia that way).
ETA: Given Woolly never thought of After Hours as a dark comedy, I am over 80% certain, Freeway would have been another he wouldn't have thought of as a comedy.