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Comedies That Torch the Genre

A run of comedies that each grab a familiar genre — the teen sex romp, silent slapstick, the blaxploitation conspiracy thriller, queer sci-fi satire — and cheerfully detonate it from the inside.

Crowd-pleasers and cult favourites rather than anything demanding — loud, irreverent, low-commitment nights; watch these to laugh and to feel ahead of the curve, not to be moved, with one or two deep cuts you'll be first among friends to have caught.

• Bottoms (2023)
• They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
• Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
• Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (2026)
• Rotting in the Sun (2023) — If Bottoms and They Cloned Tyrone landed, this is the recent cult one to pull down next — Sebastián Silva plays a bilious version of himself in a queer black comedy that lures you in with self-deprecating art-scene farce, then cheerfully detonates into a missing-person thriller and cover-up, exactly the genre-grab-and-torch move these share.