Tag: Dark Comedy

Once Upon a Crime follows Red Riding Hood who's forced to wear the shoes of a detective probing the Royal Hairdresser's mysterious demise. Once Upon a Crime, a Japanese Netflix Original directed by Yuichi Fakuda, is an adaptation of Aoiro Aoyagi's intriguing novel, "Akazukin Encounters a Corpse on the Journey." The thriller stars Kanna Hashimoto, Yuko Araki, Takanori Iwata, and Tsuyoshi Murio, among others. Within...

El Conde follows Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, a 250-year-old vampire, waiting eagerly to embrace death but failing to achieve it despite his wishes. The Netflix Chilean film El Conde plays with multiple themes by presenting a real-life historical figure in the gothic setting of a vampire fantasy drama. Directed by Pablo Larraín, the satire presents Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) as a desperate...