Gross-out film
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Gross-out films are 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.
In the USA, 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 1972's Pink Flamingos and its infamous dog excrement eating scene, followed by 1974's sketch comedy sleeper The Groove Tube and 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).
[edit] 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
- Bad Taste
- BASEketball
- Boat Trip
- Borat
- Braindead (US title: Dead Alive)
- Date Movie
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
- Dirty Sanchez: The Movie
- Dumb and Dumber (e.g. Jeff Daniels' toilet scene)
- Epic Movie
- Eurotrip
- Freddy Got Fingered
- Jackass: The Movie
- Jackass: Number Two
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (e.g. the sequence in which fat Mr. Creosote explodes)
- Meatballs
- National Lampoon's Van Wilder
- Pink Flamingos The original gross-out film.
- Porky's
- Risky Business
- Road Trip
- Scary Movie series
- Slackers
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Stripes
- Superbad
- Team America: World Police
- Texas Trilogy
- The Sweetest Thing
- Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
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