Gross-out film
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Gross-out films form a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, such as sexual or "toilet" humor. Since the abolition of the Production Code and its replacement with the MPAA film rating system in the late 1960s, some filmmakers began to experiment with vulgar humor.
The first true "gross-out film" was 1974's sketch comedy sleeper The Groove Tube followed by 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, which was a great success at the box office. Since the 1980s, gross-out films increased in number, and became the norm for comedy films. Some films of this genre could be aimed at teen audiences (such as Porky's or American Pie) or adult audiences (such as There's Something About Mary or Wedding Crashers).
In recent times, gross-out themes have become popular in UK Theatre, since the popularity of such Hollywood movies, although the shocking impact of graphic movies is greater, because of close-up shots, enhanced computer graphics, and high definition filmreel.
Examples of the Gross-out Movie Genre
- American Pie series
- Animal House (the first film labeled as "gross-out")
- The Aristocrats
- Bachelor Party
- Bad Santa
- BASEketball
- Big Daddy
- Blazing Saddles (the original gross-out film)
- Boat Trip
- Braindead (US title: Dead Alive)
- Caddyshack
- Clerks
- Dumb and Dumber
- Eurotrip
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Freddy Got Fingered
- The Girl Next Door
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Joe Dirt
- The Meaning of Life
- Meatballs
- The Naked Gun
- National Lampoon's Van Wilder
- The Nutty Professor (remake of 1963 film)
- Old School
- Pink Flamingos
- Porky's
- Risky Business
- Road Trip
- Scary Movie series
- Slackers
- Stripes
- The Sweetest Thing
- There's Something About Mary
- Wedding Crashers
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