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Dark Comedy These are movies that strike some as funny while others think they are sick.

'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964)

Directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, the movie is about a paranoid U.S. military general "jumping the gun" and giving the go ahead to launch a nuclear attack on the country's biggest enemy at the time, Russia. Kubrick originally intended for the film to be serious, but the casting of the late Peter Sellers, who plays multiple roles, helped turn it into a comedy.

'Heathers' (1988)

Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is a typical tortured and artistically inclined teen who becomes an honorary member of an elitist high school clique. Sawyer meets J.D. (Christian Slater), and they start killing off popular members of their high school, beginning with Heather Chandler (Kim Walker), only to find they have inspired a teenage suicide cult.

'Bad Santa' (2003)

Conman Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton, left) and his assistant, Marcus (Tony Cox), pose as Santa Claus and his Little Helper, respectively, in order to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. Stokes is a boozehound, chain smoker and a serial philanderer. It's a one-joke flick, but it's the rudest Christmas movie ever made and not for the easily offended.

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